10-04-2012, 03:58 AM
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Originally posted by kalakoa
As a pointless exercise: whenever you hear "$5B rail project", mentally add another $16B for the undersea power cables that will make the rail so "green".
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just use less power? Starting with all the electric water heaters...
That's 21 billion dollars divided by 1.3 million residents in Hawaii equals over $16,000 for every man, woman and child. Every person in the state could get free electricity for life if that money were spent on photovoltaics instead!