{"id":2573,"date":"2021-06-16T11:27:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T10:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2021-06-16T11:27:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T10:27:47","slug":"electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/06\/16\/electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The electricity&#8217;s back on after a brief unexpected outage. And I missed it a lot. What must it be like when you can&#8217;t pay your bills, or if it&#8217;s cold, or if you live somewhere that&#8217;s not even been connected up? Where are the &#8216;hostile actors&#8217; who might be looking for chances to harm a nation&#8217;s electricity supply? There&#8217;s still a great deal of this precious stuff, here and around the world, that&#8217;s made with fossil fuels. What about that? Electric cars are not clean until the electricity that powers them is clean. Likewise hydrogen-powered stuff. ISTR that nearly all hydrogen is made with fossil fuels. Electrolysis will not happen until renewable electricity is abundant and cheap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Creator God, we thank you for electricity,<br>something nearly everyone in industrial society relies on.<br>We thank you for the people who work in the electricity industry,<br>and who devise and refine ways of generating electricity.<br>We pray for everyone who can&#8217;t get electricity,<br>who cannot afford it, or who has no supply.<br>May they be included in our world, we pray.<br>We pray that very soon,<br>all electricity will come from renewable sources;<br>and we pray that you will energise and guide and strengthen<br>everyone who works to bring this about.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The electricity&#8217;s back on after a brief unexpected outage. And I missed it a lot. What must it be like when you can&#8217;t pay your bills, or if it&#8217;s cold, or if you live somewhere that&#8217;s not even been connected up? Where are the &#8216;hostile actors&#8217; who might be looking for chances to harm a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/06\/16\/electricity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Electricity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}