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    Maui and the Big Island are leading the push to harness the wind to produce some of the electricity needed by residents. This will help reduce slightly each County's dependence on fossil fuel.

    The latest project, at Ukumehame near Lahaina, will cost $65 million and provide 30 wind-powered turbines which will produce about 9% of the energy requirements on Maui.

    If this project is successful, will someone step up and put something like this in on Oahu, too?

    Miulang
    "Americans believe in three freedoms. Freedom of speech; freedom of religion; and the freedom to deny the other two to folks they don`t like.” --Mark Twain

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    Re: Farming the wind

    What my Chemistry teacher taught us about those wind turbines was that the energy it produces in it's lifetime will never equal the amount of energy that went into creating the turbines. Wind turbines are a good idea, but the amount of energy that goes into building these things are not worth it.
    Last edited by pancakes; April 4, 2005, 10:35 AM.

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    • #3
      Re: Farming the wind

      Aren't there wind turbines in Kahuku already? What happened to that project anyway?

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        Re: Farming the wind

        One of my friends is an engineer for HECO and he told me one of the experimental windmills lost one of it's blades and when it separated from the windmill's hub it went flying about a 1/4-mile into the mountains. I'm told one of the surviving blades is the one that is mounted vertically at the Ward Avenue facility. Urban legend? I dunno, just reporting what one HECO Engineer told me.
        Life is what you make of it...so please read the instructions carefully.

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        • #5
          Re: Farming the wind

          https://www.newsweek.com/windmillsca...tement-1386542

          A warning from Donald Trump.

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