05-25-2008, 04:47 PM
Of course your're right and that's why I included the caveat at the beginning of my post. The concept, although technically perfect and potentially beneficial, would not be considered as a viable solution to our guava/albesia infestation since it's simply to basic and we live in a society which is always looking for a 'quick fix' and generally a technical one at that. What most people don't realize is that when we're talking about major electrical production (with the exception of hydro-electric which we dont have here on the B.I essentially), what we're really referring to is 'steam power' and that includes bunker fuel, geo-thermal, coal and nuclear. In the balance it doesn't really matter what fires the boilers as long as it's able to create the necessary temperatures for the production of saturated steam which drives the turbines which in turn drive the generators.
We have an abundance of wood from trees which are about to create a real enviromental nightmare for the residents of this island unless something is done to mitigate their spread. Within a generation, at current spread rates, we're going to see these unintended consequences due to lack of foreward looking leadership and I'll mention the main one as I see it and that's eventual massive loss of native forrest and other properties due to the 'chocking effect' demonstrated by both these species and anyone who hasn't witnessed this phenomenom simply take a walk off the Old County Road which runs over the top of the Black Sands Sub Division. This is our future. The landscape soon becomes absolutely impassable due to falling albesia limbs and the ground covers which grow over them.
I think there can be no doubt after witnessing the envionmental degredation meated out by these two plants (in addition to myconia and other's) over the last thirty-five years, that we'e been 'invaded' by various biological species which carry the potential to actually lower the quality of life here on the Big Isand, yet do we see any real effort on the part of the current leadership to mitigarte the severity of this spread? On the contrary ... the current leadership is hastening such a spread by their basic inablity to even recognize the problem which simply gets worse every year. At some point it's going to become so manifest that there will a public outcry.
Shame though ... we really could produce all the power we needed, and then some, just by utilizing the natural resources laid around us. When oil is $200.00 and we're paying $10.00/gallon (or more) and perhaps $1.00/KWH for power ... life for everyone (high and low alike), is going to change.
JayJay
We have an abundance of wood from trees which are about to create a real enviromental nightmare for the residents of this island unless something is done to mitigate their spread. Within a generation, at current spread rates, we're going to see these unintended consequences due to lack of foreward looking leadership and I'll mention the main one as I see it and that's eventual massive loss of native forrest and other properties due to the 'chocking effect' demonstrated by both these species and anyone who hasn't witnessed this phenomenom simply take a walk off the Old County Road which runs over the top of the Black Sands Sub Division. This is our future. The landscape soon becomes absolutely impassable due to falling albesia limbs and the ground covers which grow over them.
I think there can be no doubt after witnessing the envionmental degredation meated out by these two plants (in addition to myconia and other's) over the last thirty-five years, that we'e been 'invaded' by various biological species which carry the potential to actually lower the quality of life here on the Big Isand, yet do we see any real effort on the part of the current leadership to mitigarte the severity of this spread? On the contrary ... the current leadership is hastening such a spread by their basic inablity to even recognize the problem which simply gets worse every year. At some point it's going to become so manifest that there will a public outcry.
Shame though ... we really could produce all the power we needed, and then some, just by utilizing the natural resources laid around us. When oil is $200.00 and we're paying $10.00/gallon (or more) and perhaps $1.00/KWH for power ... life for everyone (high and low alike), is going to change.
JayJay
JayJay