Hawai’i Today
Explore with us the current events, both global and local, that impact life in Hawai’i Today. “In depth” analysis of the challenges and potential solutions are addressed, with a focus on activating community solutions that will nurture and sustain a lifestyle unique to all who live in Hawai’i.
Our Ocean’s Dire Message
The world’s Oceans are the hottest they have been in recorded history, and by a wide margin. A human-driven climate crisis is to blame. From the Atlantic to the Pacific to Antarctica, record water temperatures are forcing scientists to grapple with how global heating is warming the oceans, often in unpredictable and extreme ways, and […]
A Modern Day Nuclear Legacy; first the Fukushima Meltdown, now Radioactive Ocean Dumping
Japan To Dump Millions of Tons of Nuclear Wastewater: Hawaii in the crosshairs BeyondKona first reported April 24, 2021 (story link above) on Japan’s Tepco announced intentions to engage in multiple controlled releases of highly radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, and near the site of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster of 2011. Fukushima wastewater […]
Battery Technology Drives Utility Reliability, Resilience, and lower ratepayer costs
Tesla Q2 battery storage deployments increase 222% Tesla is widely acknowledged as world’s leader in all things tied to Electric Vehicles, but lesser known is its global leadership in utility scale and residential battery storage and energy management systems. Tesla’s energy storage business is also no stranger to Hawaii. Early on, the company enabled Kauai’s […]
Texas; National Leader in Renewable Energy?
Today’s the Grand Old Party (GOP) more or less stands for the Gas Oil Pollution party, with the United States’ primary petrochemical production states of Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma leading the pack in historic Big Oil investment, and wielding the political power for blocking an enabling national policy on the road to a national clean […]