10-23-2019, 01:58 PM
the weird argument that you can see the solar plant in Ka'u... Well, i shall attempt to address this...yeaaah, you'd be able to see it. you do realize there's like, 6 big-ass wind turbines out here, right? They are...visible. So....I uhh...don't see how that's a problem... Second, South Point's in a rain shadow. It's a literal desert out there-there are piles of sand inland next to the reddish-brown clay. So it's for a fact going to receive more sunlight than Keaau. Third, South Point has about...4 or 5 houses...with miles and miles of cow territory...there's a reason why it has wind turbines out there, because there's nobody to complain about it. As for the power not being needed here, that's true, it would get mostly directed to Puna, but there are these things called power transformer stations. They exist for precisely this reason; so that power can flow over miles of land without diminishing too much from its source. There are miles and miles and miles of unused hills and valleys and even flat, unused land out here. You could build all of that, and Ka'u would still be 90% empty.
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