Registered: Dec 2007
Location: C&C District VII
Posts: 38

We can encourage residents to re-locate to the neighbor islands, if we run out of electric power on Oahu. Encouraging employers and realestate developers to cooperate will be a happy challenge for our Governor and State Legislators.

To delay this electric power crunch, we DOUBLE the size of the Oahu H-Power facility, now. This expansion would provide enough capacity to totally consume the current flow of waste and begin to empty our landfills. That would serve in our best interests. What about the ash H-Power generates? Sell it!

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Registered: Oct 2006
Location: in a house
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I thought our PUC was taking care of us.

Aren't any of the Mensa members down in the legislature tracking HECO?

If we leave it to HECO, they will give us the lousiest service for the most amount of money possible. For example, continuing to use wood poles along farrington Highway on the Leeward Coast -- the bullseye for every storm and hurricane Oahu gets. BTW, the wood poles are ugly!

Steel poles or an encapsulated above/below ground system would be the right way to do it -- but also cost mucho $$$. Which means the shaeholders suffer. No way that can happen, so rates must go up. Then the politicians look bad. So? So we stay in the last century with the other third world countries.

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Registered: Dec 2007
Location: C&C District VII
Posts: 38

HECO doesn't object to burying its lower voltage distribution lines. They roll the high-cost excuse out, when we ask them to bury the high-tension back-bone lines as well. I believe, we confronted HECO and lost on this issue, in Manoa Valley?

Double H-POWER capacity to ingest trash and generate the electric power product is a win-win proposition. I'm not sure why this option isn't being considered by our politicians, right now. Emptying our land-fill into the expanded H-POWER incinerator seems like a no-brainer. Maybe discussing this in the public opinion arena first is the way to go?

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Registered: Nov 2006
Location: “Don’t suffer from PTSD, go out and cause it,”
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HECO doesn't object to burying its lower voltage distribution lines. They roll the high-cost excuse out, when we ask them to bury the high-tension back-bone lines as well. I believe, we confronted HECO and lost on this issue, in Manoa Valley?

Double H-POWER capacity to ingest trash and generate the electric power product is a win-win proposition. I'm not sure why this option isn't being considered by our politicians, right now. Emptying our land-fill into the expanded H-POWER incinerator seems like a no-brainer. Maybe discussing this in the public opinion arena first is the way to go?

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Registered: Dec 2007
Location: C&C District VII
Posts: 38

HECO will bury "all power lines" as soon as "we" work out the project funding issues. Reflecting on this, we must realize the "all or nothing" position allows HECO to procrastinate indefinately.

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Registered: Dec 2007
Location: Nanakuli
Posts: 884

Bought a $1,000 generator yesterday, after telling myself for twenty years "the next time we lose power, I'm going to ..."

It's the price of Paradise - like taking an hour and a half to get to town from Mililani on a normal workday.

If you don't like it, you can live in California. Their politicians are worse than ours, their taxes are higher, their cost of living is higher, and they even have drive-by shootings in Spanish. We just have stupid people, and a heck of a lot better weather.

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Registered: Dec 2007
Location: C&C District VII
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The generator is a good idea but be sure to fire it up and place it on line more than once a year.

Thanks for encouraging me to beat the H-power drum some more. We follow the money to find out why it's not popular in Honolulu Hale, right?

Moving from HI to CA is like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire but but lots of residents are relocating to WA where the minimum wage is the highest in the nation and the cost of living is lower. I'm sure they hate leaving the wonderful weather but. Property owners here are begging the City Council to impose rent-controls and the multi-level regulation that accompanies that social engineering program. . .

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