Re: Powering Oahu from Lanai


On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Jerry Okamura wrote:

Hmmm. A private company addressing a problem, that
is the current responsibility of our regulated public
utilities?

Actually, this seems to be a rational solution. The
utillity wont be passing on R&D costs to it's
customers. The private company here is taking the
financial risk. Transporting power from Lanai to Oahu
is something that the power company has never tried
before. IIRC such long spans under water or underground
tend to go as DC at a lower voltage. Don't need as
heavy cable that way-- no "skin" effect.

IIRC when the same technology has been used
commercially for about 10 years and can be evaluated
for cost, at that time, the utillity has been deciding
to install their own facilities. Wind farms have been a
rapidly changing technology and don't know much about
underwater transmission of high electrical power.
Suspect the technology for AC-DC conversion is still
changing rapidly, and HEI wouldn't be wanting to run
100Kvolt lines on the ocean bottom.

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"Alvin E. Toda" <aet@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1181184300-sch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In today's Star-Bulletin,

http://starbulletin.com/2007/06/06/news/story02.html

Looks like this solves the Nimby problem on Oahu
where wind farms aren't welcomed sights. Build the
wind farm on Lanai.

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