{"id":7018,"date":"2013-07-17T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=7018"},"modified":"2023-03-30T08:39:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T12:39:44","slug":"haarp-facility-ota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2013\/07\/haarp-facility-ota\/","title":{"rendered":"HAARP Facility OTA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Operation of the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) array in Gakona Alaska has ceased due to a lack of funds. I can imagine that would put a damper on things.\u00a0 According to <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/view\/haarp-facility-shuts-down?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> from the ARRL website:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The proximate cause of HAARP\u2019s early May shutdown was less fiscal than environmental, (James) Keeney said. As he explained it, the diesel generators on site no longer pass <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/air\/caa\/\">Clean Air Act<\/a> muster. Repairing them to meet EPA standards will run $800,000. Beyond that, he said, it costs $300,000 a month just to keep the facility open and $500,000 to run it at full capacity for 10 days.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Which, ouch!\u00a0 It looks like they generate all their own power on-site with diesel generators, which is not inexpensive.\u00a0 Still, it is an interesting-looking facility and it would be fun to poke around a bit.\u00a0 As the above-quoted article says, the site will likely be bulldozed unless some other funding to operate the array is found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/array1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/array1.jpg\" alt=\"HAARP array close up, Gakona, AK\" class=\"wp-image-2617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/array1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/array1-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/array1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/array1-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">HAARP array close up, Gakona, AK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result of this, I fully expect that there will be no more hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, and so on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation of the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) array in Gakona Alaska has ceased due to a lack of funds. I can imagine that would put a damper on things.\u00a0 According to this article from the ARRL website: The proximate cause of HAARP\u2019s early May shutdown was less fiscal than environmental, (James) Keeney said. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2013\/07\/haarp-facility-ota\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HAARP Facility OTA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-7018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-tech-stuff","tag-haarp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7018"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11362,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018\/revisions\/11362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}