While Denmark is already producing electricity from windpower cheaper than electricity rates on the Big Island, it also looks like Spain is exploiting its natural advantage with regard to solar power to become a leader in this area of sustainable and non-polluting energy production. The Big Island receives much more sunlight per square meter, year round, than does Spain.
According to the article
Something new under the sun by Joseph Romm at Grist online, complete with a nifty photo of the mirrors and tower at
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/1/...urce=daily , a solar farm now coming online "...will eventually generate up to 300MW of power, enough for the 700,000 people of Seville, by 2013." The article further notes "Concentrated solar power (CSP) technology, as it is known, is seen by many as a simpler, cheaper and more efficient way to harness the sun's energy than other methods such as photovoltaic (PV) panels."
Seems like a smaller version of this approach could be a commercially viable win on the Kona side, too, out amidst the sun-blasted lava flows.
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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
Pres. John Adams, Scholar and Statesman
"There's a scientific reason to be concerned and there's a scientific reason to push for action. But there's no scientific reason to despair."
NASA climate analyst Gavin Schmidt
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