Ashley 4 Puna

[MarkP]

Wow. Don't know where to begin. I find Koohan Paik's arguments to be laughable and pathetically misinformed. She rants about greenhouse gasses but if you re-grow the trees then a wood-burning plant is carbon neutral. Does she just not understand this? She says we could build a plant that doesn't emit greenhouse gasses. Well maybe. The tried and true method is nuclear. Would she prefer that? There are alternatives of course like OTEC but we have had the world's foremost research effort here in Kona for 30 years and still no major OTEC plant. There's wind and solar of course and they are becoming more significant. However most people (KP in particular) have no grasp of how deeply we are hooked on power and how hard it is to replace fossil fuels. We are moving in the right direction and one way or another we will get there. It might be ugly when the lights start going off before we have the fairy-power plants operational but one way or another it has to happen. Meanwhile Ms Paik's lifestyle is completely dependant on HELL-Co's oil-fueled electricity. Not only does she need them to serve as a bogeyman but she needs them to keep her refrigerator running or at the very least to keep the traffic lights on and gas in her car so she can get to whatever event this rant was recorded at.

This Ashley character, Ms Paik doesn't like her? Hmmm..