{"id":4592,"date":"2013-03-26T16:29:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T23:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=4592"},"modified":"2013-03-26T16:29:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T23:29:50","slug":"massive-energy-skyscraper-proposed-on-u-s-mexico-border-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=4592","title":{"rendered":"Massive Energy Skyscraper Proposed On U.S.-Mexico Border &#8211; Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;A Maryland energy company is planning to deliver 500 megawatts of power to the electrical grid from a giant hollow tower on the Arizona-Mexico border that would be the second-tallest structure ever built.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidferris\/2013\/03\/26\/massive-energy-skyscraper-proposed-on-u-s-mexico-border\/?partner=yahootix\">Massive Energy Skyscraper Proposed On U.S.-Mexico Border &#8211; Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>and the followup story fills in some of the details:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;How much would it cost to build a downdraft tower? $1 billion, plus $100 million to pipe the water in from the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. Additional money would be needed to build a desalination plant, but the company has not yet arrived at a number&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidferris\/2013\/03\/26\/your-energy-skyscraper-questions-answered\/\">Your Energy Skyscraper Questions, Answered &#8211; Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;A Maryland energy company is planning to deliver 500 megawatts of power to the electrical grid from a giant hollow tower on the Arizona-Mexico border that would be the second-tallest structure ever built.&#8217; via Massive Energy Skyscraper Proposed On U.S.-Mexico Border &#8211; Forbes. and the followup story fills in some of the details: &#8216;How much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}