Harnessing the wind on Kauai

[jpak]

http://www.kauaiworld.com/articles/2007/10/28/news/news07.txt

A relatively new kind of farm taking root on Neighbor Islands and around the world could soon become reality on the Garden Isle.

From the ground up, Kaua‘i residents in various capacities have pushed over the years for energy independence, learning along the way that windmills could be one way to realize this goal.

Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative signed an agreement in 2006 with Kaua‘i Wind Power for a proposed 10- to 12.5-megawatt project that would provide the island’s first significant source of wind energy, according to UPC Hawai‘i Wind Partners Vice President Mike Gresham.

“As a community, we have to be concerned of the world’s situation and our vulnerability sitting in the middle of the ocean,” he said.

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[Sukie1941]

1. I think it is a great idea!

I think windmills are cool. I have seen them in the Bay Area (San Francisco).

They have a tendency to kill birds, that would be my only objection.

[diane in sf]

3. The old wind machines kill birds, the new big ones not so much

their turbines turn slower and the birds can avoid them. The old ones in the Altamont pass are kind of like bird blenders.

[jaksavage]

2. What happened to the wind farm on Oahu?

It was there and now it is gone?