Could Hawaii Geothermal Plant Become a Windfall...

[pahoated]

The part about a specific Puna dacite was interesting. It would have been more productive to ask Mike directly what PGV is doing with the drilling and scale cleaning waste, rather than developing conspiracy theories about where it is going.

Ultimately, this is about people who have spent 3 decades in hysteria about the toxicity of geothermal brine aquifer water starting to realize the enormous wealth contained in that same rotten egg smell water. BTW, the rotten egg smell that has apparently killed dozens of people and cows around Pohoiki is from an abundance of sulfur in the water, just another mineral in a mineral rich soup.

The big problem is fixating on Ormat as some gigantic conspiracy with back room meetings planning how to gas south Puna so they can have it all to themselves. Good plot for a comic book, not so much for real understanding of what is going on. It was kind of comical to see the end with everybody looking at each other and asking, what are you going to do about it? The final processing of the raw salts is just plain no-go for this island but exporting the raw salts to Asia could be very lucrative. Ormat obsession only distracts from the fact this geothermal brine aquifer water is available in many other places. It could be a boon for the Hawaiian natives, since the state has ruled they own 100% of the geothermal royalties from Hawaiian lands. There is an easy way to start investigating but that can be left to other people that stay at Holiday Inn.

"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"

[RJHampton]

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Originally posted by pahoated

The part about a specific Puna dacite was interesting. It would have been more productive to ask Mike directly what PGV is doing with the drilling and scale cleaning waste, rather than developing conspiracy theories about where it is going.
"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"

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You bet Puna Dacite is interesting, 67.33% pure Silica and twice as heavily hydrated then any other on the planet.

I asked Mike K. prior to the committee meeting what happens to the scale? Mike K said,'the scale is shipped to Washington State' and he told me he doesn't know what happens to it after that. Another interesting fact in passing is that, I asked Mike K. how many people are there operating the PGV plant on any one shift? He told me three. As you can see the capital investment is in drilling and building the plant those are the big costs operating it takes very few people and very little capital.

As far as the rest of your post although you are starting to understand I will not address your sarcasm I have had too much positive response from the legislators on the State and County level to get caught up in any nonsense.

There is so much to discuss about the future the door is wide open. Our presentation is about getting caught up to a green technology that we can participate in and the people of this State and the Kingdom can benefit from by establishing a 'Hawai'i Permanent Fund' just like Alaska's legislators did. It is about looking into and taking advantage of a resource that we have been over looking for years. This has nothing to do with geothermal energy generation. 'Geothermal Material Recovery' is a growing industry that bares looking into and then developing for the benefit of the people but we have a long way to go and the next step is about community meetings to educate, discuss and plan for the future how we can best use these resources.

[lavalava]

So we will see you at the PGV meeting tomorrow right?