Exactly. None of the islands grids are connected. I worked for a power plant on the big island a few years ago and even then there was a big issue with too much power during the day and not enough at night. Coupling that with the intermittent wind power and you have a very hard grid to maintain.
NextEra (the energy company that recently bought HECO) is looking to do just this. A Sept. 2013 report by them estimates a capital cost of approximately $600 million for a 200 MW cable connect between Maui and Oahu. (source page 8 of [1])
This is the low end of the scale with other estimates ranging from $553 Million to $1.24 Billion (page 9).
Note that this does not connect the Big Island to the grid either.
The preliminary proposed route can be seen on page 84 of the report.
I got a Chromebook as a supplementary computer. I'm a 3D Art student so I never expected it to replace my rig, but I thought it would be nice to take notes in GenEd classes and browse the internet between classes or on the couch at home. It works perfect for that.
What surprised me was some of my non-techie friends saw my Chromebook and decided to get one. They stream their music and the only thing they used their Windows laptops for was the internet and typing up essays and stuff up. It took them a while to get used to not being able to install anything but between their smartphone and their Chromebook they can pretty much do anything they need.
They use the hot brine to vaporize a motive fluid such as liquid pentane in the heat exchanger, when the liquid is converted to gas it creates a high pressure environment and is piped into a turbine which spins the generator. Then they condense the motive fluid back to a liquid so they can vaporize it again. It's the same way binary geothermal power works, with the Organic Rankine Cycle.
It's not a steady supply over power, it fluctuates with your supply and demand for it, so it takes work for another grid to take that power from you. If you send them power they have to scale their plants down to prevent the problem you're having. Then when your supply goes down and you no longer have an excess of power to send they have to scale their systems back up to make up for the power you're no longer sending. They can't store it or get rid of it easily. It's one of the reasons people don't like wind and solar power, it works great when the wind is blowing and the sun is out, but it fluctuates too much and causes heavy swings in power generation that have to be dealt with somehow.
Does anyone know if Valve and Steam use the same servers as Playstation for processing? I purchased Portal 2 through Valve on my PC a week before they shut the network down and had my card stolen two days later (I didn't use the card for weeks before and didn't use it after) so it seems like these might be linked.
Valve have said that Steam users have nothing to worry about regarding the PSN leak. Furthermore it seems very unlikely that Steam and PSN would have much in common (except for third-party payment processors) given that until very recently, they were completely unrelated. There is no evidence that your card was stolen due to using it on Steam, and I would advise against assuming correlation is equivalent to causation.
Speaking from personal experience, your bank might not even tell you promptly if someone else has your card details, they might just block all the fraudulent transactions and not replace your card for six months.
Small world. I live in East Hawaii and I felt that. It was from the Volcano, which after erupting for the past few days stopped last night and I guess it started again.
There are programs to sync Android Devices (such as Double Twist), but I find it much easier to just mount the internal SD on my GalaxyS and drag and drop it. This being said, I hardly ever use my phone for music (since I also have a Zune) so it doesn't bother me much.
As far as I know for my GalaxyS there is a partition on the internal storage for the "Internal SD" and the external SD is handled as a different card. Both mount separately and operate interdependently. So you would have to split that 40GB of music between both Internal and External SD cards.
