BeyondKONA: Energy
Not since the Industrial Age has the opportunity for change in energy been as great as it is today. There is now a transformation from dirty, extraction-based fossil-fuel energy fuels now imported into Hawai’i, but choices we make as to acceptable “renewable energy” options will have positive or negative consequences and costs to Hawaii’s population and environment.
One thing is certain: $5 trillion dollars annually in global taxpayer subsidies of the fossil fuel (dirty energy) sector is unsustainable, and by any measurement, economically and environmentally, a costly and false economy. (2016-17 World Bank – IMF reports).
Zero emissions energy sources are driving new cost and performance efficiencies and environmental benefits for Hawai’i and that can propel the state’s transformation to a clean energy driven global economy. Hawaii’s abundant sun, wind, water, and geothermal energy assets are Hawaii’s mana.
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- Burnham says he would put PR in Labour manifesto and scrap triple lock to fund social care – as it happenedby Andrew Sparrow on September 29, 2026 at 5:20 pm
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- ‘It’s just cruel’: US households hit by surge in electricity shutoffs amid record hot summerby Oliver Milman, with data visuals by Aliya Uteuova on September 29, 2026 at 1:00 pm
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- Burnham promises to roll back privatisation with government-backed grid planby Kiran Stacey, Jessica Elgot and Pippa Crerar on September 28, 2026 at 9:33 pm
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