07-13-2008, 08:09 AM
KC, I had heard of those problems in the past, plus leaks etc. But my understanding is they have been running sucessfully for 10 years, and without a hitch for 5. I'm not refuting your sources' info, but I belive the tech has overidden most of the problem. If you mention geothermal, the first reaction is hazardous gasses will kill us all, even though totally unsubstansiated. PGV supplied a full scale air monitoring station, which didn't detect anything. All geothermal is dirty, but they have ways of cleaning them.
Robbing that fund before running a 2 year comprehensive sampleing of the air is criminal.
Beware, a lot of people would not shine so well if this comes in. Knights on palm trees are going to revolutionise Puna, right! Vested interests in other energy forms should but out of the argument.
PGV bailed the state out of a mess they couldn't handle, and their tech doesn't require a huge workforce. However they also have a source of medium heat that is wasted right now. There is huge potential in it, but the industrialisation aspect scares many. Better we all drive daily to Kona or Hilo. No need a industrial zone.
Underground Utilities are doable on this Island. The Fed is pushing it from a survival standpoint to reduce FEMA workload. Plus if it went to Pohakuloa, Dan Inouye could probably fund it through Fed.
Propose an equal geothermal plant near Kawaehae, and put it to a vote in Kona, if they refuse they can pay to bury the lines to Kona.
Somehow though this has to incorporate the Hawaiian community into the process, this is being done (albeit late) in NZ, and I believe it could turn the tide.
Robbing that fund before running a 2 year comprehensive sampleing of the air is criminal.
Beware, a lot of people would not shine so well if this comes in. Knights on palm trees are going to revolutionise Puna, right! Vested interests in other energy forms should but out of the argument.
PGV bailed the state out of a mess they couldn't handle, and their tech doesn't require a huge workforce. However they also have a source of medium heat that is wasted right now. There is huge potential in it, but the industrialisation aspect scares many. Better we all drive daily to Kona or Hilo. No need a industrial zone.
Underground Utilities are doable on this Island. The Fed is pushing it from a survival standpoint to reduce FEMA workload. Plus if it went to Pohakuloa, Dan Inouye could probably fund it through Fed.
Propose an equal geothermal plant near Kawaehae, and put it to a vote in Kona, if they refuse they can pay to bury the lines to Kona.
Somehow though this has to incorporate the Hawaiian community into the process, this is being done (albeit late) in NZ, and I believe it could turn the tide.
Gordon J Tilley