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What Happens When The Last Coal Ship Leaves Hawaii?
gCaptain ^ | July 31, 2022 | John Konrad

Posted on 08/01/2022 6:20:44 AM PDT by artichokegrower

The Hawaiian islands’ coal shipments are ending. The bulker carrying the state’s final coal shipment will leave this week after refueling the state’s last coal-fired power plant. That plant is scheduled to close in September forcing the state’s energy providers to compete with the US Navy for oil tankers.

AES Hawaii, operator of the largest power plant on Oahu, received 15,000 tons of Indonesian coal from the Liberian flag bulker MV Flying Tiger. The 180-megawatt plant is the biggest source of the island’s electricity and provided 13% of the state’s overall power in 2018.

(Excerpt) Read more at gcaptain.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: chat; coal; coalfired; coalplants; electricity; hawaii; power; powerplant
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To: joshua c

New tagline


61 posted on 08/01/2022 7:22:31 AM PDT by null and void (they promise the jetsons but deliver the flintstones)
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To: DouglasKC

I’ll go one further. If ever there is a candidate for geothermal electrical generation its Hawaii.

Iceland is a great example for comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Iceland


62 posted on 08/01/2022 7:23:07 AM PDT by SouthParkRepublican
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To: BlackbirdSST

I’m white as rice.
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Oh, Blackbird. Rice, White? Asian Appropriation.


63 posted on 08/01/2022 7:23:42 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: Midwesterner53

When tourists can’t turn on the lights, coal might make a comeback.
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Well, the tourist could bring in a suitcase full of coal.

‘Hey, How did you get lights in your Motel room???’


64 posted on 08/01/2022 7:25:42 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: Scrambler Bob
Oh, Blackbird. Rice, White? Asian Appropriation.

Guilty as charged your honor!

65 posted on 08/01/2022 7:28:12 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump WON!!!)
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To: rktman

https://hawaiienergy.com/images/educationOutreach/EnergyResourcesinHawaiiPresentation.pdf

The Pie chart on page 4/12 shows the breakdown according to HI energy.
Apparently, HI has the third highest amount of solar panels/per capita in the USA(after NM & NJ). Yet all those solar panels add up to a grand total of .1% of total electricity produced.

Sounds like they need to convert that coal fired plant to bio mass or there are a lot of people who are going to have to turn down the AC.

Their Electricity rate/ KWH is already the highest in the country. $.37/KWH residential rate.


66 posted on 08/01/2022 7:29:59 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: BlackbirdSST

Thank you.


67 posted on 08/01/2022 7:32:04 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: Leaning Right

Indeed proving utopians always plan ahead for a problem.


68 posted on 08/01/2022 7:32:48 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: artichokegrower

I’m thinking about opening up a business in Hawaii specializing in solar lanterns and candles for those who can’t afford the lanterns.


69 posted on 08/01/2022 7:34:33 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: artichokegrower

Well, at least they don’t have to worry about freezing in the winter.


70 posted on 08/01/2022 7:36:33 AM PDT by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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To: artichokegrower

These fanatics will turn the world into the Demolition Man(1993) movie where everything that they say is bad for you is banned and run by someone that reminds me of Klaus Schwab


71 posted on 08/01/2022 7:37:33 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger

One of my favorite jokes..

What did leftists use for light and heat before candles?

Electricity.


72 posted on 08/01/2022 7:41:36 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: artichokegrower

Tiny bubbles


73 posted on 08/01/2022 7:50:24 AM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: Red Badger

Nah! There is always whale oil.


74 posted on 08/01/2022 7:54:10 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Leep
But it could happen


75 posted on 08/01/2022 7:57:28 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Celerity

Candles used to be made with beef/animal tallow. Peta will not be amused.

Nowadays they are made mostly with petroleum waxes, no petroleum no candles.

Some are made with soy waxes, but that requires farmland and fertilizers made from fossil fuels...........................


76 posted on 08/01/2022 7:57:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Travis McGee
That is true. I started out in Wyoming but now live in Georgia. ;-D

Don't expect people to agree with you just be cause you are right.

77 posted on 08/01/2022 7:58:51 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: FLT-bird

I want Georgia to secede.


78 posted on 08/01/2022 7:59:25 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: rktman; Chode; SkyDancer; Salamander; carriage_hill; Lockbox; MtnClimber; nascarnation; Squantos; ..

Maybe they could use Geothermal to boil water for steam to spin a few generators.

If they only had a heat source and some water...


79 posted on 08/01/2022 8:01:01 AM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Nukes could actually help with the kooks.


80 posted on 08/01/2022 8:02:07 AM PDT by GingisK
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