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...larger plant built in 1981 off Kailua-Kona, on Hawaii, was a $50 million failure." The larger plant you refer to was a Federal Government project, which was terminated owing to lack of federal funds. Contrary to your statement, Hawaii has not ordered designs for four new 10-megawatt OTEC plants. Rather, the Federal Government has granted awards to General Electric Co. and Ocean Thermal Corp. for the conceptual design of two 40-megawatt OTEC plants on Oahu...
...readily available on Hawaii, the youngest and most volcanically active of the islands. In 1976 drillers dug the world's hottest hole, with bottom temperatures of 676° F, on the eastern slopes of Kilauea volcano. Last year the well came on line with a $14 million, 3-megawatt* power plant, only the second such geothermal facility in the U.S. Estimates of the island's geothermal potential range up to 3,000 megawatts, nearly twice the whole state's present electric-power consumption. The further development of new geothermal sources would be spurred if engineers could design...
...Wind power remains a tantalizing possibility. The northeast trade winds are consistent and often strong, and seven small windmills have been installed on ranches and in small businesses. Long-range generating capacity is estimated at 400 megawatts, or up to 25% of the state's requirements. But no windmill is now cost competitive with oil. An 80-megawatt facility on Oahu, scheduled for completion in 1984, currently projects a loss of 7? on every kilowatt-hour...
...Hawaii, was a $50 million failure: corrosion of the heat-exchange pipes by sea water and fouling by small marine plants and bacteria rendered the system useless in a matter of days. New pipe materials are being tested, and the state, undaunted, has ordered designs for four 10-megawatt OTEC plants...
...down by the movie's megabudget. Only Vernel Bagneris-with his dusky sensitivity and a body that moves through his soft-shoe number like a Slinky on an escalator-develops a strong personality. Visually too Pennies is of two minds: Ken Adam's precisely gaudy sets need megawatt illumination, but Cinematographer Gordon Willis keeps most of the lighting as morose as a coal miner's funeral. Perhaps this was not the project on which to lavish so many MGM millions. The BBC show was an enchanted cottage; this is the Las Vegas Grand Hotel...