{"id":73625,"date":"2025-08-25T11:41:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/25\/japan-osmotic-power-plant-fukuoka"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:41:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:41:47","slug":"japan-has-opened-its-first-osmotic-power-plant-so-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73625","title":{"rendered":"Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant \u2013 so what is it and how does it work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The site in Fukuoka is only the second power plant of its type in the world, harnessing the power of osmosis to run a desalination plant in the city<\/p>\n<p>Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant, in the south-western city of Fukuoka.<\/p>\n<p>Only the second power plant of its type in the world, it is expected to generate about 880,000 kilowatt hours of electricity each year \u2013 enough to help power a desalination plant that supplies fresh water to the city and neighbouring areas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/25\/japan-osmotic-power-plant-fukuoka\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The site in Fukuoka is only the second power plant of its type in the world, harnessing the power of osmosis to run a desalination plant in the cityJapan has opened its first osmotic power plant, in the south-western city of Fukuoka.Only the second pow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4898,"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":[41,493,65,88,659],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-energy","category-environment","category-japan","category-renewable-energy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73625","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\/4898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73626,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73625\/revisions\/73626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}