Renewable energy

[Godwit]

Hawaii aims for 100% renewable energy by 2040

Hawaii is on track to pass legislation this year requiring the state to go 100 percent renewable by 2040.

Earlier this month, committees in the Hawaii House and Senate both unanimously recommended bills that would raise the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) from the current target of 70 percent by 2030 to the ultimate goal of 100 percent by 2040. Hawaii has had an RPS since 2001, and right now the state gets just over 21 percent of its power from renewable sources — a 12 percent increase in just six years.


http://reneweconomy.com.au/…/hawaii-aims-for-100-renewable-…

[RENMAN358]

Nice catch G !!! Bet the big utilities are cringing . Now we get to see if they can gather the capital to pull it off .

California could also do the same , but will they ?

[INFIDEL]

Nice catch G !!! Bet the big utilities are cringing . Now we get to see if they can gather the capital to pull it off .

California could also do the same , but will they ?

Yep, they sure can...from their customers. 25 years of rate hikes and MAYBE we can start burning alt energy. Just send the bill to Godwit, thanks.

[dilligaf]

2 things that make hawaiis situation somewhat unique one is their natural geo thermal capacity that they are,and will continue to exploit.

the other is the fact that the vast majority of their energy is produced by generators powered by,,you guessed it,



Hawaii Embraces Geothermal – Cautiously

[Idum]

Will geothermal energy release more heat into the atmosphere?

[dilligaf]

Will geothermal energy release more heat into the atmosphere?

in the case of hawaii,even better.lots of sulfur dioxide .this is a really good read.

http://www.hawaiibusiness.com/geothe...red-hot-topic/

hush now,,its green...

[Godwit]

This morning, the Florida Supreme Court approved an initiative for the 2016 ballot that would allow Floridians to vote to reduce the state’s restrictions on rooftop solar power --

http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/d...5/sc15-780.pdf

[Godwit]

Greenhouse gas emissions in Europe have plunged to the lowest level ever recorded after the EU’s member states reported an estimated 23% drop in emissions between 1990 and 2014.

The bloc has now overshot its target for 2020 of cutting emissions by one-fifth – at the same time that its economy grew by 46%, according to the EU’s climate chief, Miguel Arias Canete.

http://www.theguardian.com/environme...-to-record-low

[Godwit]

A Bill Gates-backed Canadian company opened a plant that sucks carbon from the air

That carbon goes through a series of chemical processes and emerges as pellets, which can be used to make fuel -- or simply be stored underground.

Unlike existing machines that capture carbon from smokestacks like those of coal-fired power plants, the direct air capture plant deals "with emissions from sources you just can't otherwise capture," said company chief executive Adrian Corless.

"It's now possible to take CO2 out of the atmosphere, and use it as a feed stock, with hydrogen, to produce net zero emission fuels."

http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-c...om-air-2015-10

[StandFree]

A Bill Gates-backed Canadian company opened a plant that sucks carbon from the air

That carbon goes through a series of chemical processes and emerges as pellets, which can be used to make fuel -- or simply be stored underground.

Unlike existing machines that capture carbon from smokestacks like those of coal-fired power plants, the direct air capture plant deals "with emissions from sources you just can't otherwise capture," said company chief executive Adrian Corless.

"It's now possible to take CO2 out of the atmosphere, and use it as a feed stock, with hydrogen, to produce net zero emission fuels."

http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-c...om-air-2015-10

Any moron that looks at this and thinks it is progress is one dumb porch monkey. Plants of all sorts have been doing this since the beginning of the earth's life. Grass and trees and algae can do this without any machinery.