{"id":66131,"date":"2026-06-28T18:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66131"},"modified":"2026-06-28T18:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:39:58","slug":"compressed-air-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66131","title":{"rendered":"Compressed Air Power Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66132\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ragged_Chutes.jpg\" alt=\"Ragged Chutes\" width=\"720\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ragged_Chutes.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ragged_Chutes-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #080809;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">What&#8217;s actually possible is suppressed from public view. This is a diagram of an actual compressed-air power plant that ran for over 70 years; it was shut down because an insurance company claimed that it attracted too many observers and someone could get injured, so they shut it down&#8230; They are trying to control the rain, the groundwater, your ability to save seed, and so much more &#8211; why wouldn&#8217;t they hide basic things like nearly-free energy generation? This is <\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/permaculture?__cft__[0]=AZbQwMRMcUiwwuOzK_cBRMtJWU9O4jhMrkCdbYuo_AIvUaWhZ92E1-b7CdaU5WU9EkHxmrHQysNh4CU3ROuJ6F6TR6yLX9EnIZcfsfGXsbCoMrzijqM36h8oJTy_UE2hJPAgQwniGofKTgSaJtKSADZrX0IoWGOFuBCAZAfojsvD9wTFewWzC-S9GTwxCKzrKINT9irjg8M-V4fBVcGOsOEN&amp;__tn__=*NK-R\"><span style=\"color: #0064d1;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">#Permaculture<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> <span style=\"color: #080809;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">in practice, and this is a diagram from The Permaculture Student 2: <\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepermaculturestudent.com\/shop\/the-permaculture-student-2-the-textbook-ebook\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">https:\/\/www.thepermaculturestudent.com\/shop\/the-permaculture-student-2-the-textbook-ebook<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s actually possible is suppressed from public view. This is a diagram of an actual compressed-air power plant that ran for over 70 years; it was shut down because an insurance company claimed that it attracted too many observers and someone could get injured, so they shut it down&#8230; They are trying to control the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66131\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Compressed Air Power Plant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66133,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66131\/revisions\/66133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}