Word: kauai
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state is not relying entirely on the depressed sugar industry for biomass. It is now considering pineapple waste and macadamia nut shells as energy sources. Tree farms have been planted for future fuel, and there is promise in a treelike legume called Haole Koa now being cultivated in Kauai, which can be harvested in four years and will produce in one acre the energy equivalent...
...Solar energy seems an obvious answer to Hawaii's problems. Already there are an estimated 20,000 solar hot-water units statewide, saving as much as $6 million a year. On Kauai, G.N. Wilcox Hospital has installed a photovoltaic system that nils 4% of its electrical and 40% of its hot-water needs. But such systems are expensive and generate electricity only in daylight hours. Even the sun has not cooperated this year: thanks partly to dust clouds from Mexico's El Chichón volcano, Hawaii has had the lowest level of direct solar radiation...
...senior vice president and a former Navy officer: "It may sound like I work for them. But look at the fairness of the hull, its smoothness, which is determined by the quality of the welding. You can walk down the pier and compare the Maui with the Kauai, the ship another company built for us. You can immediately tell which is the better ship. The Bath-built hull is fairer." The Maui was also delivered five weeks before it was due, and BIW brought the ship in $3.2 million under budget...
...ever. Around Honolulu, subdivisions have sprung up on land once covered by pineapple plants and sugar cane. On Maui, the once pristine coastline between Lahaina and Kaanapali is now studded with hotels and condominiums. Says Kazu Morita, 62, a third-generation Japanese Hawaiian who owns a gas station on Kauai: "When we were kids, we could go through anybody's property to the sea. Now they've built houses, and we cannot get close." Most annoying to many Hawaiians is that so much of the development is controlled by Japanese and other foreigners. Says John Werheim, a cucumber...
...remaining 10%-those committed against tourists-that cause the biggest headlines. The trials of nine youths for the rape of a Finnish dental student in a park near Honolulu in 1979 attracted worldwide attention, as did the murder of a young California couple on a popular hiking trail on Kauai last March. Perhaps the most audacious crime of the past year occurred in early March, when a pair of armed teen-agers hijacked a busload of Japanese tourists at Honolulu airport and robbed them of $11,000 in cash and a stack of cameras and jewelry; two suspects were arrested...