{"id":2670,"date":"2010-07-14T06:44:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T10:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/jr-ewing-ok-larry-hagman-goes-solar.html"},"modified":"2010-07-14T06:44:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T10:44:47","slug":"jr-ewing-ok-larry-hagman-goes-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/jr-ewing-ok-larry-hagman-goes-solar.html","title":{"rendered":"J.R. Ewing (OK, Larry Hagman) Goes Solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vcd8BiIU13U\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/vcd8BiIU13U\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nLarry Hagman, most famous for playing Texas oilman JR Ewing, has gone solar.\nHe says the east coast blackout of 2003 made him think of the fragility of the grid,\nso he installed enough solar panels and inverters to power his rather large estate:\n<p>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vcd8BiIU13U&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object>\n<p>\nHe spent about $750,000 and got about $300,000 back in rebates. With the current Georgia 35% rebate and the federal 30% rebate on renewable energy installation, an investment of that amount could get back around $487,500 in rebates.\nOf course, the average home solar installation isn&#8217;t nearly that big, more like $15,000, with something like $9,750 rebate, or around $5,250 net.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Larry Hagman, most famous for playing Texas oilman JR Ewing, has gone solar. He says the east coast blackout of 2003 made him think of the fragility of the grid, so he installed enough solar panels and inverters to power his rather large estate: He spent about $750,000 and got about $300,000 back in rebates. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23,24,734],"tags":[339,5598,1037,5600,8701,548,5597,5596,5599,611,8713,4308,8714],"class_list":["post-2670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-television","tag-california","tag-dallas","tag-distributed","tag-fragile-grid","tag-georgia","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-jr-ewing","tag-larry-hagman","tag-ojai","tag-rebate","tag-renewable-energy","tag-resilient","tag-solar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-H4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}