{"id":208,"date":"2003-11-04T07:11:10","date_gmt":"2003-11-04T13:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=208"},"modified":"2003-11-04T07:11:10","modified_gmt":"2003-11-04T13:11:10","slug":"electricty-flowing-like-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2003\/11\/04\/electricty-flowing-like-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricty flowing like water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how it was described to me once.<\/p>\n<p>When I asked an electrician I knew to explain to me why electricity didn&#8217;t fall out of the outlets if there wasn&#8217;t a plug to stop it, he gave me some story about how electrity flows like water.  Well, now, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/3201030.stm\">this article on the BBC<\/a>, electricity may flow <i>from<\/i> water.  It&#8217;s not hydro-electric power plants, but it is electricity generated from the flow of water.  Fascinating and new, so no one knows what the implications are yet.  Perfect fodder for a near-future science-fiction story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how it was described to me once. When I asked an electrician I knew to explain to me why electricity didn&#8217;t fall out of the outlets if there wasn&#8217;t a plug to stop it, he gave me some story about how electrity flows like water. Well, now, according to this article on the BBC, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14,28,30],"tags":[122,335],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction-and-its-kin","category-news-and-current-events","category-science-and-technology","category-science-fiction","tag-bbc","tag-electricity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}