{"id":68980,"date":"2025-01-17T21:59:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/jan\/17\/how-climate-friendly-waterwheels-are-coming-around-again"},"modified":"2025-01-17T21:59:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:59:56","slug":"how-climate-friendly-waterwheels-are-coming-around-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68980","title":{"rendered":"How climate-friendly waterwheels are coming around again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Himalayas and Nepal to Northern Ireland, sustainable source of energy seems to be back in vogue<\/p>\n<p>In the foothills of the Himalayas, a group of villagers hauled a sturdy metal waterwheel into place. Its horizontal blades soon caught the rushing water of the stream directly below it. The machine began to spin, and electricity began to flow.<\/p>\n<p>The roughly 2-metre-tall waterwheel, installed in a village in Kashmir, India, was the result of years of design work and development by researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and partners.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/jan\/17\/how-climate-friendly-waterwheels-are-coming-around-again\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Himalayas and Nepal to Northern Ireland, sustainable source of energy seems to be back in vogueIn the foothills of the Himalayas, a group of villagers hauled a sturdy metal waterwheel into place. Its horizontal blades soon caught the rushing w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4582,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[493,65,1911,62,432,603,659,61,827,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-environment","category-hydropower","category-india","category-kashmir","category-northern-ireland","category-renewable-energy","category-south-and-central-asia","category-water","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68981,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68980\/revisions\/68981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}