{"id":3211,"date":"2014-04-16T18:24:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T17:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2014-04-17T08:37:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T07:37:27","slug":"saharan-sands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=3211","title":{"rendered":"Saharan Sands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1175s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3212\" title=\"IMG_1175s\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1175s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1175s.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1175s-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1175s-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early April gave us a week of very murky weather, with increased air pollution over the UK caused in part by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2014\/apr\/01\/london-smog-saharan-dust-storms-downing-street\">sand carried from the Sahara desert<\/a>. Going up on the roof to seasonally adjust the positioning of the solar panels and give them a clean, Admin1 noticed a fine reddish deposit at the base of each one. After cleaning, we had the best day of the year for electricity generation, just under 10kWh.<\/p>\n<p>Admin1 is watching <em>Orphan Black<\/em>, series 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early April gave us a week of very murky weather, with increased air pollution over the UK caused in part by sand carried from the Sahara desert. Going up on the roof to seasonally adjust the positioning of the solar panels and give them a clean, Admin1 noticed a fine reddish deposit at the base &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=3211\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saharan Sands&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3214,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}