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Hawaii could copy Iceland and add geothermal to solar and wind. It has plenty of hills to build a bit of pumped hydro storage on too.

• mchannon 12y ago
  Iceland has excellent Geothermal resources. Hawaii, if you actually sit down and look at where the geothermal resources are (big island and a tiny amount on Maui, not where 90+% of electricity is used on Oahu), will force you to conclude that they couldn't copy Iceland and are stuck with other renewables.
  • caf 12y ago
    The distance from the big island to Oahu appears to be feasible for an underwater HVDC cable (eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basslink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basslink ). If the geothermal was cheap enough, this might be worthwhile.
    • grogenaut 12y ago
      370km, nice!
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