Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • How We Are Different
  • Debbie Young
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • Your Survival Guy
  • The Great Reset
  • The Swiss Way
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • Dick Young
  • Key West
  • Paris
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool
  • Anti-Gun Control
  • Anti-Digital Currency
  • World Gold Mine Production

Kauai Goes 80% Solar

January 21, 2015 By Richard C. Young

A&B solar farm at Port Allen, with KIUC’s battery storage system. Source: KIUC Currents, December 2012

I have been writing positively on solar for years. Debbie and I have 2KW of solar here in Key West. A few days ago we were reading in our back cottage overlooking our fishpond and noticed that the lights were out in our front house. I initially thought it could be a blown fuse. But no, it was one of our periodic KW power outages caused by any one of a number of regular Keys’ power problems.

Well we did not miss a beat in the part of our property (including the refrigerator) that is tied into our solar system. I would tie in all of our property, but we have insufficient south-facing roof space to accommodate more PV panels. We sell back to our local utility the power we generate but do not need.

Two things to keep in mind regarding solar: (1) It is not cost effective. You install solar because you are paranoid, like me, and worry about such things as a power outage that could cripple the local power grid for months. (2) You cannot have any foliage screening any part of your PV array or you will generate squat for juice. Remember the old Christmas tree light strings? If one bulb blew, the whole string was kaput. Well solar PV panels act in a somewhat similar fashion.

Now on to Kauai. MIT Technology Review lays out the story of how this Hawaiian island has jumped some difficult hurdles to approach a state of 80% solar sufficiency. This exciting news is but the tip of the iceberg about what you will be reading here at richardcyoung.com in coming months. Solar is making rapid headway that you are unlikely to read much about in the general media.

Related video:

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for my free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • Solyndra Redux
  • Slash Solar Costs by Half
  • And the Beat Goes On
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Richard C. Young
Richard C. Young
Richard C. Young is the editor of Young's World Money Forecast, and a contributing editor to both Richardcyoung.com and Youngresearch.com.
Richard C. Young
Latest posts by Richard C. Young (see all)
  • June Is Retirement Compounders Month - June 2, 2023
  • What Binds the Woke Left Together? - June 1, 2023
  • Joel Salatin and Alfie Oakes, America’s Food Kings - June 1, 2023

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • Your Odds with Statins: 500 to 1?
  • The Case for Individual Stocks: Now More than Ever
  • What a Way to Make a Living: New Hampshire #1
  • Joel Salatin and Alfie Oakes, America’s Food Kings
  • Is Rutin Useful in Preventing Blood Clots?
  • Boom—Your Life Changes
  • Florida: Enjoy Certain Freedoms and Individual Liberties
  • What’s the Best Survival Currency?
  • Hungarian Hardliner Viktor Orban Shows European Globalists the Way
  • My Smith & Wesson Revolvers Home Defense Team

Disclosure

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Rome, Paris, U.S.A.: Global Crisis in Confidence
  • June Is Retirement Compounders Month
  • What Is a Fiduciary Duty? Are You Working with a Fiduciary?
  • FOOD CRISIS? Ukraine Says Russia Is Blocking Grain Exports
  • Delivery Robots Coming to More Cities with Uber Eats
  • Western Sanctions on Russia Have Strengthened Its Ties to India, China
  • Birth Rates in France Worst Since Post-WWII Era
  • A Cashless Society Is A Debacle for Americans
  • Democracy: The Most Dangerous and Insidious Effect of Majority Rule.
  • What’s the Alternative to China for Manufacturers?

RSS Yoursurvivalguy.com

  • Rome, Paris, U.S.A.: Global Crisis in Confidence
  • Your Survival Guy’s Best Insider’s Guide to Rome
  • What Is a Fiduciary Duty? Are You Working with a Fiduciary?
  • Survive and Thrive June 2023: Your Survival Guy in Rome 30-Years A.B. (After Babson)
  • Birth Rates in France Worst Since Post-WWII Era
  • Your Survival Guy Felt Like a U.N. Worker in Rome
  • Social Security: Declining Italy Needs a Bambino Boom
  • ATTACK ON THE IVAN KHURS: Unmanned Vessels Changing Naval Warfare
  • The Future of the American City is This…
  • Happy Memorial Day: Your Survival Guy: Proud To Be an American

The Nickel Pickle from EVs

Rewarding Loyalty with Ridicule

Rome, Paris, U.S.A.: Global Crisis in Confidence

June Is Retirement Compounders Month

Americans Scared of CBDC Control of Their Money

Your Survival Guy’s Best Insider’s Guide to Rome

Copyright © 2023 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives