(06-26-2024, 04:07 AM)Punatang Wrote: You must have studied Alan Greenspan. I have no idea what you are saying HJ LOL. Is switching our power generation from oil to LNG, for a day or longer, going to retard climate change. Yes or no. please =)
YES
BUT...
In addition to LNG conversion from bunker oil, Hawaii COULD have capitalized on geothermal decades ago. I'm not saying it was done right or done wrong in the past, but nonetheless, if it had not been for a handful of very greedy mainland AND NATIVE HAWAIIAN people, coupled with this goddamn mentality of everything being "sacred", geothermal COULD be suppling a vast MAJORITY of - at least here on the Big Island for sure, our power needs. Including allowing for the - "now that its more efficient so we use more" crowd.
And then, and again, not saying what was proposed was right or wrong, but waste to energy COULD have been something that again, if done right, benefited the Big Island in numerous ways. But nonetheless, some of those belching diesel waste trucks hauling our east side garbage to the west side are newer DEF equipped heavy trucks. Some are. Most aren't.
And I think, not for sure, but I think Hawaii County is no longer paying daily non-compliance fines to the EPA for the now closed east Hawaii landfill, so that's a good thing, I guess.