Sunday, October 13, 2013

Sustainability

The Big Island of Hawaii is 95% nonrenewable energy. Fossil fuels are used mostly adn also some coal. There is a new shift in thinking about renewable resources though. Firm renewables, like geothermal energy, comes from the steam from the lava from the volcanoes. Wind farms have also been used as a renewable source of energy, along with hydro dams. Hawaii's air is one of the cleanest in the nation because of the strict laws and regulations on emissions. The Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative is just one of the renewable energy programs.


 Graphic map of the Big Island with icons showing the locations of existing renewable energy installations. The island is shown in yellow. The icons are green circles with black symbols in the center representing wind, solar, ocean, hydroelectric, biomass, and geothermal energy. There are three wind turbine icons (one on the north coast, one inland on the north side of the island, and one on the south shore). In addition, there is a sun icon on the northwest coast, and just below it, a wave icon representing ocean energy. On the central east coast are three icons, one with a water drop to represent hydroelectricity, one with a leaf to represent biomass, and one with a volcano to represent geothermal energy. 
Map of Hawai‘i's Big Island showing the locations of existing renewable energy generation, including solar, ocean, wind, hydroelectric, biomass, and geothermal.
http://www.hawaiicleanenergyinitiative.org/projects-hawaii/
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