11-10-2013, 05:46 PM
Diversified agriculture to compliment the visitor industry?
Excellent idea; except we don't need GMO, which tends to develop mono crops and profits large agribusiness rather than small farms.
Energy security?
Not exactly improving. Although Geothermal and solar help reduce our dependence on oil; Any energy resource that feeds HELCO's archaic grid distribution system only reinforces their monopolistic stranglehold on Hawaii consumers. Then there's the added liability of HELCO's monthly outages that affect thousands at a time. Investigate the emerging fuel cell technology (Bloom energy box), combined with micro grids. The future is closer than people think.
Excellent idea; except we don't need GMO, which tends to develop mono crops and profits large agribusiness rather than small farms.
Energy security?
Not exactly improving. Although Geothermal and solar help reduce our dependence on oil; Any energy resource that feeds HELCO's archaic grid distribution system only reinforces their monopolistic stranglehold on Hawaii consumers. Then there's the added liability of HELCO's monthly outages that affect thousands at a time. Investigate the emerging fuel cell technology (Bloom energy box), combined with micro grids. The future is closer than people think.