19 thoughts on “Tesla solar panels are starting to power Hawaii island”

  1. What a laugh. Of course solar might help Hawaii. They don't really manufacture anything. They don't have to heat their homes for 5 months of the year so they use minimal power to start with compared to mainland cities in America. They don't have thousands of miles of roadway and remote rural towns . And how much land that should go to food producing will be used for solar power? That will start to become an issue eventually. I guess if Tesla is going to be at the forefront of the war against people's freedom through free range fossil fuel vehicles they need to have a success story somewhere. As for myself, I keep working in the industry that burns an increasingly MASSIVE amount of fossil fuels to dig the materials that they need for batteries out of the earth…and that's something they aren't going to tell you in the "success story" of renewable energy.

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  2. 50 acres of solar panels to power 4,000 homes. What a waste! For a tenth of that space, a nuclear plant could power two million homes. This is stupidity at its finest for sure!

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  3. The story fails to state that Hawaii has one of the most expensive electricity prices, so not a perfect example to follow.

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  4. Hawaii residents are constantly in court with the power company. ..it's becoming very easy to go totally off grid and the there's the rub.. power companies want people to pay for the grid whether they use it or not….
    it's getting interesting

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  5. Battery backup is a big issue, it can POSSIBLY fill the gaps when the wind doesn't blow or the sun shine. However $$$ the COST is the primary issue, even if you'd use cheap lead acid batteries, or 'gel cell' lead acid batteries, which by the way are the cheapest way to store energy today! I have experience with this, and once you have you're own experience, you'll quickly find out the difficulties of solar or wind, there definitely is a place for it, however the 'American/European/1st World' standard of living, i.e. air conditioning, running appliances at a whim, is and will be compromised! there needs to be an emergence of dense energy production, in my opinion Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors are a technology that is known to work, as far as net energy production.

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  6. I love it they finally figure out to use nature as in sheep to keep grass down. Go figure that is a win win in my book. Now lets get the price way down for us who want Tesla battery unit.

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