{"id":94608896,"date":"2011-06-08T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/europe-s-first-solar-powered-rail-tunnel-opens-in-belgium\/"},"modified":"2011-06-08T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T10:45:00","slug":"europe-s-first-solar-powered-rail-tunnel-opens-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/europe-s-first-solar-powered-rail-tunnel-opens-in-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s First Solar-powered Rail Tunnel Opens in Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBelgium is now home to Europe&rsquo;s first solar-powered rail tunnel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nIt&rsquo;s a two-mile track that&rsquo;s now covered in solar panels, which will generate enough energy to run all of the nation&rsquo;s trains for one day per year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nThe train line goes from Paris to Amsterdam.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nOne kilometre of solar paneling will be able to generate half a kilowatt of power, which is equal to 950 families per year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nThe solar panels will also lower CO2 emissions by 47.3kg in the next two decades.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSource: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breakingtravelnews.com\/news\/article\/europes-first-solar-powered-rail-tunnel-opens\/\" target=\"_blank\">Breaking Travel News <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium is now home to Europe&rsquo;s first solar-powered rail tunnel. It&rsquo;s a two-mile track that&rsquo;s now covered in solar panels, which will generate enough energy to run all of the nation&rsquo;s trains for one day per year. The train line goes from Paris to Amsterdam. One kilometre of solar paneling will be able to generate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94608896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94608896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94608896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94608896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94608896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}