Hawaii Planning State-Wide Electric Car Network

MojoKid writes to tell us that Hawaii is planning on implementing a statewide electric car charging network. While the initiative seems to highlight the lower carbon footprint, Hawaii doesn't exactly seem like the ideal candidate for this initiative. One reader pointed out that perhaps a solar or wind power generation initiative might be a little better suited for the island state. "We have tons of wind and sun here that could be harnessed for electricity, but Hawaiian Electric Company has enough control over the government to block most wind and solar projects, and they make more money burning oil and diesel because the PUC lets them pass the fuel costs directly on to the consumer. Gov Lingle is taking all the credit, but if she actually wants to make a difference in oil consumption in the islands she needs to get large scale wind and solar projects pushed through first."

Electric car network, eh?

[Smidge207]

Would that be a...wait for it...wait...ethernet linear BUS topology?

*rimshot*

Thank you, I'll be here all night.

Tip your server and avoid the crab louie like the plague.

=Smidge=

What?

[Anonymous Coward]

They're saying goodbye to the electric car?

Gov'mentary

[cwAllenPoole]

Government would be great, if it weren't for all of the politicians...

But how does Iceland do it?

[PolygamousRanchKid]

But 89% of the houses in Iceland are heated with geothermal energy (http://iceland.ednet.ns.ca/schedule.htm).

Can't Hawaiians use geothermal energy to at least heat their houses . . . um, in Hawaii . . .

Wait, let me get back to ya on that one . . .

Re:But how does Iceland do it?

[MichaelSmith]

What we need is a superconducting heat pipe between Hawaii and Iceland (I know, they are in different oceans). Then heat can flow to Iceland and cold in the reverse direction!

Re:That is what they're doing

[adolf]

Yeah. Noise is wasted power.

But not bloody much of it.

Wikipedia's page about sound power [wikipedia.org] has a table with a few examples. It states that a helicopter produces 0.01 Watts of sound, while a machine gun makes just 10 Watts.

Let's assume, then, that the gentleman's motorcycle is Really Fucking Loud, and produces about a Watt worth of sound. This is only 0.00134102209 horsepower [google.com] wasted as sound.

I think we've all got better things to worry about than amount of energy wasted making sound with gasoline-fueled piston engines.

Move along.