Coming soon...maybe: Energy Island

[Guest]

Energy Island:

...building a floating, hexagonal Energy Island that will harness energy from OTEC, as well as from winds, sea currents, waves, and the sun....

The Energy Island project is bidding for the US$25 million funding offered by Richard Branson’s Virgin Earth Prize, which is awarded for environmentally responsible research. The OTEC technology is something of a green dream; not only is it clean and renewable, but so are its by-products.

More info Here

I hope Hawaii get's this buggah[8)]


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Coming home soon!

[LeeE]

Great post. Sounds brilliant.

We'll be seeing more breakthroughs across the board as time goes by, methinks.

Aloha,
Lee
http://members.cruzio.com/~lionel/event

[gtill]

OTEC was first accomplished at NELHA facility in Kona. That deep sea pipe everyone is scamming at taxpayers expense, was made by the State! And it did work(produced electricity), but it biofouled and slowly broke down. In front of many idiot professors with their heads up their A,,,'s, decided to forget what the taxpayers paid for, and give their budding oean studies a scam to grow fish, limu, abalone, expensive water, whatever they could suck on. As usual since no private outfit could take the whole thing over like geothermal, the state keeps on paying, even now when the pipe cracks who fixes it and for what? There have been many scams and bankrupcies among those co's over the years, huge losses for state citizens who bought their crap!
Rejuvinate the place when you can make energy, as originally intended, and let the developers set the rules for who stays there.
Anyone who thinks some big oceangoing monster as pictured is nuts! This ocean would eat that toy for lunch!

[dirk1609]

Great maybe Helco can lower the rates, oh I mean RAISE the rates.

[gtill]

Ohh they will. Raise and raise some more.

Expand Geothermal!

[JayJay]

We could be firing boilers with alcohol injection by now but Reagan stopped that thrust when he came to office. The mills wanted to produce alcohol but couldn't do it on their own and the subsidy was dropped at that time.
The only way we're ever going to be able to produce enough electricity for this island, without bunker fuel, is by the use of boilers which use as their prime-mover either, alcohol or wood (with a bagging system to significantlly lower emission) i.e., albesia, or a combination of both, to produce, 660volt three phase AC current.

JayJay

[jhonvar]

Here's an article from the NY Times about Hawaii's energy situation:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/opinio....html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=energy&st=nyt&oref=slogin

[mella l]

Thanks for the link to this article. Funny statement about initiatives here.

mella l