{"id":5290,"date":"2009-08-20T13:31:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T04:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=5290"},"modified":"2009-08-20T13:31:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T04:31:48","slug":"unidentified-floating-objects-are-introduced-in-osaka-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/unidentified-floating-objects-are-introduced-in-osaka-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Unidentified &#8220;Floating&#8221; Objects Are Introduced In Osaka This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5291\" title=\"Logo of NTT Facilities\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/nttfacilities.gif\" alt=\"Logo of NTT Facilities\" width=\"207\" height=\"35\" \/><br \/>\nIn commemorating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suito-osaka2009.jp\/en\/index.html\">the series of water-oriented events<\/a> which are now underway in Osaka, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntt-f.co.jp\/profile-e\/\">NTT Facilities<\/a>, a property management company of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntt.co.jp\/index_e.html\">NTT Group<\/a>, developed two solar-powered and UFO-shaped water purifiers, which are to be installed in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/D%C5%8Dtonbori\">Dotonbori[Wikipedia]<\/a>-canal running through the center of the city, and in a moat around the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osakacastle.net\/english\/\">Osaka Castle<\/a>.<br \/>\nThat machine is a spin-off of the company&#8217;s under-developing new business of constructing large-sized solar power plants.\u00a0\u00a0 It has a capacity of purifying 9,000 lit. (approx. 2,370 gal.) a day, and the purified water is fountained from the top of the machine in order to keep its surface clean and to keep solar panels cool to maintain energy conversion efficiency.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5292\" title=\"Solar UFO Pictures\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/solarufo.jpg\" alt=\"Solar UFO Pictures\" width=\"357\" height=\"434\" \/><br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/national\/update\/0819\/OSK200908190098.html\">the Asahi Shimbun[J]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In commemorating the series of water-oriented events which are now underway in Osaka, NTT Facilities, a property management company of NTT Group, developed two solar-powered and UFO-shaped water purifiers, which are to be installed in Dotonbori[Wikipedia]-canal running through the center of the city, and in a moat around the Osaka Castle. That machine is a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/unidentified-floating-objects-are-introduced-in-osaka-this-summer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unidentified &#8220;Floating&#8221; Objects Are Introduced In Osaka This Summer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,17,24,35],"tags":[2665,2772],"class_list":["post-5290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company","category-japan","category-news","category-technology","tag-ntt-facilities","tag-osaka","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}