05-19-2017, 05:23 PM
TomK,
Yes the HELCO rates were far beyond the means of the average Hawaiian a few hundred years ago. That's why many resorted to coconut shell & seawater generators for their electrical needs. For some reason, no one has posted an old photo of the device on the Internet, but here's one of a working replica used more recently by a group of stranded castaways on an uncharted desert isle:
http://images.mentalfloss.com/sites/defa....18_pm.png
It... lends weight to Goethe's felicitous description of architecture as 'frozen music.' ... Does this, I often wonder, make music 'defrosted architecture?' Listening to Bach's Goldberg variations as I often do on walks when motorway noise and other auditory intrusions preclude the music of silence, it strikes me that it might. - Pub Walks in Underhill Country, Nat Segnit
Yes the HELCO rates were far beyond the means of the average Hawaiian a few hundred years ago. That's why many resorted to coconut shell & seawater generators for their electrical needs. For some reason, no one has posted an old photo of the device on the Internet, but here's one of a working replica used more recently by a group of stranded castaways on an uncharted desert isle:
http://images.mentalfloss.com/sites/defa....18_pm.png
It... lends weight to Goethe's felicitous description of architecture as 'frozen music.' ... Does this, I often wonder, make music 'defrosted architecture?' Listening to Bach's Goldberg variations as I often do on walks when motorway noise and other auditory intrusions preclude the music of silence, it strikes me that it might. - Pub Walks in Underhill Country, Nat Segnit
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