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Visiting in May, looking to buy a vacation rental
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Originally posted by Rob Tucker

Actually the Big Island is in somewhat favorable position in its way. The population density is low, there is geothermal power under production and the state is heavily promoting expansion, there is a biofuel production effort in initial phases in Ka`u. If and when gas prices hit $6 or more Hawaii will not be the only place affected and Hawaii County has more energy assets than many or most American counties.

Just my opinion of course.


Population density is just a number. It does not take into account resource availability. Plus the population went up 25% here in the last 10 years. Did resource availability go up that much too?

The biofuel op is a farce since they depend on fossil fuel for the bio fuel right now and it does not produce liquid fuel. The same goes for geothermal. And I do not see a lot of electric cars on the island.

All this should have been started 20 years ago.

And from http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/arti...ocal02.txt

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Prevedouros said provisions of the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative are unrealistic. Just getting to 20 percent renewable energy use would require tripling geothermal, wind and biomass production, along with a tenfold increase in solar power and boosting incineration, which occurs on Oahu, by 50 percent, according to his calculations.

"As always, I'm a professor. I'm not trying to sell anybody nothing," he said. "I'm just giving the facts."
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RE: Visiting in May, looking to buy a vacation rental - by missydog1 - 03-09-2011, 01:31 PM
RE: Visiting in May, looking to buy a vacation rental - by anthonyf - 03-09-2011, 04:28 PM
RE: Visiting in May, looking to buy a vacation rental - by missydog1 - 03-10-2011, 02:16 PM

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