{"id":830,"date":"2022-09-22T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=830"},"modified":"2022-09-25T23:49:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T23:49:49","slug":"italy-farmers-use-caves-to-store-apples-save-energy-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/italy-farmers-use-caves-to-store-apples-save-energy-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural refrigerators: Italian fruit farmers use caves to store 30,000 tonnes of apples and save 32% electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/italian-apple-farm-caves-natural-refrigeration.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/italy-caves-natural-refrigeration.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>(quote)<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/italian-fruit-farmers-use-hill-caves-help-cut-energy-bills-2022-09-21\/\">PREDAIA, Italy, Sept 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Apple farmers in the north of Italy are using natural refrigerators carved under a hillside to store their harvest<\/a> in a controlled environment that remains at a constant temperature in all seasons. Three hundred metres beneath their fruit orchards in Predaia, a small town in the Trentino region, the Melinda group has created 34 refrigeration areas in vast caves, where they are able to keep 12-13% of their produce and cut their energy costs.<br><br> \n\n&#8220;One of them is definitely in terms of energy levels, because from a test done last year&#8230;we measured a 32% saving of electricity in the cave.&#8221; The caves currently store around 30,000 tonnes of apples, a figure expected to increase to 40,000 tonnes in the near future.<br><br>\n\n(unquote)<br><br>\n\nImage courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/italian-fruit-farmers-use-hill-caves-help-cut-energy-bills-2022-09-21\/\">REUTERS\/Matteo Berlenga<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(quote) PREDAIA, Italy, Sept 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Apple farmers in the north of Italy are using natural refrigerators carved under a hillside to store their harvest in a controlled environment that remains at a constant temperature in all seasons. Three hundred metres beneath their fruit orchards in Predaia, a small<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/italy-farmers-use-caves-to-store-apples-save-energy-costs\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,11,12],"tags":[92,21,22,70,67,26,27,29,59,72,39,31],"class_list":["entry","author-wcp-common-sense","post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-figures-and-facts","category-life-nature-society","category-science-and-technology","category-us-and-world","tag-agriculture","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-facts","tag-figures","tag-food","tag-health","tag-innovation","tag-nature","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}