{"id":10043,"date":"2013-11-04T01:11:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T00:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10043"},"modified":"2013-11-04T01:11:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T00:11:19","slug":"the-cooling-towers-love-them-or-hate-them-will-soon-be-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10043","title":{"rendered":"What will it look like without the Didcot Cooling Towers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-i8sShPxFH80\/UnbWIaGdnwI\/AAAAAAAAPkY\/rmE13L4DFsQ\/s1600\/13110302.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-i8sShPxFH80\/UnbWIaGdnwI\/AAAAAAAAPkY\/rmE13L4DFsQ\/s1600\/13110302.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere were sail boats and rowing boats on the River Thames in Abingdon this morning, but unlike a year ago no steam was rising from the giant cooling towers of Didcot &#8216;A&#8217; Power Station.  The coal fired Didcot &#8216;A&#8217; Power Station has been decommissioned and some of its transformers have already been transported away.  The cooling towers, love them or hate them, will soon be gone.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HfdL5vhtEGk\/UnblpZd7GZI\/AAAAAAAAPkw\/Hq1cFK4hXR8\/s1600\/13110303.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HfdL5vhtEGk\/UnblpZd7GZI\/AAAAAAAAPkw\/Hq1cFK4hXR8\/s1600\/13110303.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMore efficient, and less visible, gas powered generators have taken over at Didcot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were sail boats and rowing boats on the River Thames in Abingdon this morning, but unlike a year ago no steam was rising from the giant cooling towers of Didcot &#8216;A&#8217; Power Station. The coal fired Didcot &#8216;A&#8217; Power Station has been decommissioned and some of its transformers have already been transported away. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}