http://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/tns-hawaii-hydroden-station.html upbeat kine news
http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal-Energy/Hawaii-Embraces-Geothermal-Cautiously.html state makes me proud
http://hawaiirenewableenergy.org/ we don't have to be part of the UN bill to be a part of positive change to reach their goals and help make Hawaii less dependent if not independent of importing fossil fuels to produce our electric needs
http://inhabitat.com/deep-seawater-air-conditioning-system-to-cool-honolulu/ not just to produce energy but to reduce consumption. this is very cool stuff right here. https://www.facebook.com/Honolulu-Seawater-Air-Conditioning-LLC-339303485111/timeline/
http://www.hawaiicleanenergyinitiative.org/ Hawaii's goal is to be a net energy producer by 2045 utilizing clean and renewable sources.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sout...pRLOs_S97Wr3RfsWYIc0C8e7y-p8j2bViDZo2_ZGCA59o 14 turbines @22megawatts 80% of the time for production #love the big island
http://www.geo-energy.org/plantdetails.aspx?id=169 puna geothermal plant producing 25-30 megawatts of electricity #love my island more
I have no idea why Hawaii wasn't geothermal powered all along. It's not new technology. It's REALLY expensive to ship oil from the mainland. And I don't see why you couldn't do most everything on the islands in electric vehicles. Certain commercial vehicles need more range, but the vast majority of vehicles don't need more range than the EVs provide.
because of the control the families have had over island commerce just about since the first missionaries. agreed on the EV's, and hydrogen as a potential storage method for the many times production exceeds demand. the prohibitive costs of the infrastructure and HELCO already with the fossil fuel plants/ interisland freight for the profits of another family/storage facilities, tank farms for another, a myriad of reasons but many tied to the fact that certain businesses would loose stranglehold of island life. it really did take the tax incentives/ both federal and state to create an interest in solar, but now , with those expired and the competition of the startups to take advantage, we have a whole lot of different options available, but net metering is off the table in most areas. still a growth industry with substantial waiting lists. newest solar "product" is a fixed rate for the duration of a 20 year contract at a significant cost savings over helco. they sell you the electric produced from panels and batteries they install on your roof all while leaving the home owner connected to the grid for potential HELCO purchases of increased demand. interesting business model as they become a very small scale alternative for a $0 dollars down. they become the homeowners electric utility for all practical purposes. because of the many alternative energy sources and the islands drive to be independent, (Something the military is very interested in us becoming) I foresee Hawaii achieving our goals before 2045.
For those of you thinking Trump has accomplished nothing... (FWIW, I appreciate government accomplishing nothing) http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/233851-china-says-will-enforce-n-korea-sanctions-100-percent China Says Will Enforce N. Korea Sanctions '100 Percent' This is HUGE. The UN vote to enact the sanctions is also huge. China blocked those things until this year.
and only at the cost of several islands China is claiming of Taiwan's, Viet Nams, Japans and the Phillipines! We leave them to occupy the South China Seas and they'll slap N Korea's hand....and probably still do black market deals with them. We used to protect those South Asian waters from Chinese invasion.....first time ever we've given them the thumbs up for doing what they basically did in Tibet....now they're preparing for war with India....our ally....strange to think of these things as winning for the US
