{"id":9425,"date":"2013-08-08T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=9425"},"modified":"2013-08-08T12:00:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T20:00:37","slug":"augustseptember-2013-renewable-energy-shredding-the-magic-of-nevadas-great-basinby-scott-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/08\/augustseptember-2013-renewable-energy-shredding-the-magic-of-nevadas-great-basinby-scott-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"(August\/September 2013) Renewable Energy: Shredding the Magic of Nevada\u2019s Great Basin\u2026by Scott Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt: <\/strong>&#8220;Experiencing the Great Basin Desert in Nevada seems to involve an inner war of perceptions. Here\u2019s how it went for me.<\/p>\n<p>Just after Gail and I turned our rental car due south on Alternate U.S. Highway 93 from the fortress of casinos lining the border town of West Wendover, Nevada \u2013 servicing the good Mormon sinners of Salt Lake City \u2013 into the empty salt flats, it felt like we were sliding into another world.<\/p>\n<p>And a forbidding one, even to a lover of other Western deserts. I think one of the reasons is the odd, whitish hue of the low-lying salt flats, whether they\u2019re vast white playas or episodic alkaline lowlands. In large part they\u2019re remnants of land-locked lakes and pools during the last ice age. As the Holocene warmed the atmosphere they dried up; today salt-whitened playas in the Great Basin are partially filled by water from snow melts and episodic thunder boomers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Scott&#8217;s article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/08\/01\/renewable-energy-shredding-the-magic-of-nevadas-great-basin-by-scott-thompson\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9426\" alt=\"sht-aug13-4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sht-aug13-4-300x194.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/08\/01\/renewable-energy-shredding-the-magic-of-nevadas-great-basin-by-scott-thompson\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/08\/01\/renewable-energy-shredding-the-magic-of-nevadas-great-basin-by-scott-thompson\/<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: &#8220;Experiencing the Great Basin Desert in Nevada seems to involve an inner war of perceptions. Here\u2019s how it went for me. Just after Gail and I turned our rental car due south on Alternate U.S. Highway 93 from the fortress of casinos lining the border town of West Wendover, Nevada \u2013 servicing 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9495,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425\/revisions\/9495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}