08-24-2017, 04:03 AM
If you're tired of power outages and fried appliances you just have to put your power in your own hands. We need cars for transportation so we don't think twice of investing tens of thousands of dollars on a car. We also need electricity all of our lives, but most people resist the idea of investing the same amount of money on electricity. Giving money to Helco is like taking a taxi every day instead of owning a car.
Living off-grid doesn't mean you have to change your quality of life, you just have to size your system to accommodate your needs and become aware of timing of certain loads such as laundry, showers, doing dishes, etc.
We are conditioned to flip a switch for a light at any time and never think about where the electricity comes from. With your own system you have to think about your power usage and when to use big loads as randomq stated if you want to preserve your batteries.
For that $10 billion price being spent on rail on Oahu we could have had solar power for everyone in the entire state. That's over $22,000 for solar at every household in Hawai'i instead of rail which will only benefit a few and won't even be going to the airport or UH.
Hawai'i would go from the number one most dependent state on oil to becoming energy independent and people would have more cash to spend for years to come that wouldn't be going to Hawaii Electric Light Company.
Living off-grid doesn't mean you have to change your quality of life, you just have to size your system to accommodate your needs and become aware of timing of certain loads such as laundry, showers, doing dishes, etc.
We are conditioned to flip a switch for a light at any time and never think about where the electricity comes from. With your own system you have to think about your power usage and when to use big loads as randomq stated if you want to preserve your batteries.
For that $10 billion price being spent on rail on Oahu we could have had solar power for everyone in the entire state. That's over $22,000 for solar at every household in Hawai'i instead of rail which will only benefit a few and won't even be going to the airport or UH.
Hawai'i would go from the number one most dependent state on oil to becoming energy independent and people would have more cash to spend for years to come that wouldn't be going to Hawaii Electric Light Company.