{"id":149,"date":"2007-04-12T15:11:03","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T15:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=149"},"modified":"2007-04-12T15:11:03","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T15:11:03","slug":"everwantedtoknowhowtopoweryourmooncolony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/everwantedtoknowhowtopoweryourmooncolony\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever wanted to know how to power your moon colony?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My good friend Mike McCambridge (second from the right in the picture below), a senior at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, has been working with several peers on an amazing senior capstone project:  designing a power plant that takes advantage of the moon&#8217;s particular thermodynamic characteristics in order to generate power.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/mike\/MikeMcMSOE.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe basic idea involves using a large, reflective panel to collect solar energy, heating a fluid to great temperatures, and transmitting the heated fluid to power a turbine.  The group traveled to Huntsville, Alabama to speak with scientists at NASA&#8217;s Marshall Space Flight Center and trade ideas about the particulars of such a system.<br \/>\nRead more about this project &#8220;here&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=590355.\">http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=590355.<\/a>  It is amazing what brilliant projects and ideas can be generated even by undergraduate research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My good friend Mike McCambridge (second from the right in the picture below), a senior at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, has been working with several peers on an amazing senior capstone project: designing a power plant that takes advantage of the moon&#8217;s particular thermodynamic characteristics in order to generate power. The basic idea involves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[126,242,284,345,364],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-engineering","tag-moon","tag-power","tag-space","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}