Eighteen months ago I provided our Government a sound technical proposal for the production of cheap electricity using Saafa grass along lines already used in Denmark for 20 years. A year and a half has passed, and our Government still insists on pursuing pie in the sky renewable energy projects while totally ignoring the only feasible option available. - Peter Goldstern.
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Monday 27 July 2009
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Auckland, New Zealand
Peter Goldstern's hat had better be edible. Relying on generating power only from a central location for a collection of small and mostly low lying islands spread over a vast area of ocean is the wrong model. It was the wrong model then, now and will be into the future and to quote Dr Chu as evidence in this way is being disingenuous. - Sefita Hao‘uli
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Tuesday 21 July 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
There are a couple of viable renewable options available for Tonga, one being the burning of Saafa grass to drive steam turbines which could produce cheap electricity as does the burning of 1 million tons of straw each year in Denmark. Burning grass is CO2 neutral because the grass takes the same amount of CO2 out of the air while growing, as is returned to the atmosphere when it is burned. Indeed this option entitles the user to Carbon credits. Saafa could produce electricity for less than the diesel component alone in the current electricity price. -Peter Goldstern
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