Bytemarks

In an effort to help people better understand their energy usage, the Hawaii Energy Study, sponsored by Blue Planet Foundation, Kupu and Kanu Hawaii, have launched a 300 home pilot to deploy The Energy Detective (TED). Dwight Streamfellow from Living Systems installed TED at my home as part of the Study. The installation is pretty straight [...]

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SunRun announced today that it will offer its solar power service in Hawaii to residential customers. SunRun will offer homeowners rooftop solar systems for as little at $0 down. The homeowner then pays SunRun for monthly solar electricity. The estimated monthly savings is up to 15% less than current electric utility rates. SunRun owns, monitors, [...]

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In preparation for this week’s Bytemarks Cafe, where we talk to Stevie Whalen from the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center and Dave Waller from Hawaiian Electric about biofuels, I dug up this presentation done by Maurice Kaya back in 2002, while he was the State’s Chief Technology Officer. In it you will find background information about [...]

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It’s the classic “chicken or the egg” problem. Which came first? Is it the electric car or the charging stations? As Mike Leone of HIEV explains, customers are weary of buying an electric car because of the lack of charging stations and businesses are hesitant to install charging stations because there are so few electric [...]

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Paul Zorner was our third speaker for the Wayfinder Lecture series held tonight at Hawaii Public Radio, Atherton studio. He spoke about how Hawaii’s dependence on fuel and food from out of state sources is something we cannot sustain. At some point those external producers of both fuel and food will realize they need it [...]

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After our episode of Bytemarks Cafe on 12/3/08, I realized the question to how the Windbelt converted wind energy to electrical energy was never really answered with any clarity. Several callers and listeners responded that we seemed to evade the question. I think it was less a matter of evading and more one of not [...]

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