Wiwo...wiwo...wiwo.
The sound floats on the winds of Ka Lae, this southernmost tip of Hawaii's Big Island, where Polynesian colonists first landed some 1,500 years ago.
Some say that Ka Lae is haunted -- and it is. But it's haunted not by Hawaii's legendary night marchers. The mysterious sounds are "Na leo o Kamaoa"-- the disembodied voices of 37 skeletal wind turbines abandoned to rust on the hundred-acre site of the former Kamaoa Wind Farm.
http://hawaiifreepress.com/main/ArticlesMain/tabid/56/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1698/Wind-Energys-Ghosts.aspx.
So our utilities have become a piggy bank for our political tribes and financial elites...and hostage to a drastically insufficient conservative ideology. It's only a job for a reformed TVA type government project...
ReplyDeleteA new nuclear plant is too big for any electric utility today and there is no efficiency if you are not building identical 10 at the same time plants.
What can be said with absolutely clarity...our utilities more reflect the ideology of the Taliban than a USA style democracy institution....