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Gimme S’more
The 7th century Chinese get all the credit for fireworks. Granted, they discovered them, developed them and perfected them, but 7th century Byzantine Greeks also had a hand in creating one of our most...
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Kula, Maui’s (Now!) Solar-Powered Surfing Goat Dairy
Governor Abercrombie: “All I said was, ‘Maui wants goat cheese.'” by Anna Such *** Surfing Goat Dairy Farm celebrated the completion of their new 50- kilowatt solar power system last Friday (July 29)...
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Solar Power Is Helping and Hurting Hawaiian Electric
Even Maui Oil Co. likes solar power There’s some disconcerting arithmetic going on at the Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO). It seems, according to a few recent press accounts, that alternative energy...
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Hawaii Pacific To Install Solar Energy Panels At 18 County Of Maui Facilities
Anyone driving by that new fortress on a hill otherwise known as the “New Kihei Police Station” will see two things pretty much immediately. First, that it truly does look like a fortress on a hill,...
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Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa Gives State Of The County, And Saw That It Was Good
So last night Maui County Mayor Alan Arakawa delivered the fourth and last State of the County address at the Maui Art & Cultural Center’s McCoy Studio Theater. We couldn’t make it, but have a...
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Solar Impulse aircraft grounded in Hawaii until April 2016
Bad news for the sun-powered Solar Impulse aircraft, which recently flew from Japan to Hawaii without using a drop of fossil fuels–technically difficulties will keep it in the ground until next spring...
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County of Maui finally hires new Energy Commissioner
It’s been well over a year since Doug McLeod resigned as Maui County Energy Commissioner and formed his own consulting firm (DKK Energy Services LLC), after holding down the post for four years. The...
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Hawaii Nature Center’s Iao Valley facility goes solar
Though you often see rain and gray clouds hugging the mountain peaks that tower over Iao Valley, Hawaii Nature Center’s program facility there will soon get solar power (while solar cells do work on...
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