12-29-2007, 01:11 PM
Dr james, i remember werner von braun talking about being able to remove your meters as nuke tech will so drop the bill a flat charge will be enough to cover everyone. The only remaining problem is the waste and we'll fix that in a generation. That was in 1956, i think he missed the mark. The first geothermal plant i saw was in 69, the old plant in rotarua, nz, which was a huge duplicate of our kapoho well but more like a tuba than our sax. Kapoho was a disaster as would have been rotarua but it was in the boonies in an already sulfer smelling area.Both were obnoxious as hell. However the replacments are very well engineered by ormat, who built both of them. Another one in cal, somewhere near sf. has been running for a lot of years and is cleaner than ever. I would like to see hawaiians get some piece of this somehow, but right now ormat is producing 30 mw of power to about 1/3 of the island. Their rated capacity is 250mw reducing oil usesage some hundreds of thousand gallons. Their website "punageothermalventures.com" gives the specifics. Plus the epa watches these guys like hawks. Sorry james,i think we don't want to leave the liquid fuel thing, but by the time you get the land, clar,prep, fertilize deal with your bugs which will come, do we spray when they cause damage, the modern way would be to develop a bioengineered species immune to the problem, but we won't be able to as that too is being banned. Now we build a plant, storage tanks, retail outlets etc. Lets really stand out, and use what we have already have, creating the highest ev use in the country.
Gordon J Tilley