Bunking the Hawaii Thesis

November 10, 2008

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Revisiting a thought from February that Hawaii be the early adopter of renewables for America because conventional energy is expensive when you're an archipelago in the Pacific ocean. Here's the thesis: "Hawaii has a robust, innovative and now self-funding renewable energy effort because it is isloated by oceans from traditional energy sources more so than the rest of us, creating cost barriers tall enough to encourage it to broadly develop renewables sooner than the rest of us."

So while Hawaii is doing much to create its own sustainable future, others might also do much. In taking a fresh look at Palo Alto startup Better Place, which is working hard to create the electric car world, it appears Hawaii could be the launch point for a U.S. effort. Better Place began in Israel (a political island), is launching in Australia (a continent island), but will go to Hawaii as the ideal, island entree to the United States. Which of course is the prize (for now anyway) in any quest to reformulate the transportation model.

Comments

[Andy]

I got to catch Mike Granoff, Better Place’s Head of Oil Independence Policies on a stream last night from the DC-based Energy Conversation group. After his presentation he took questions from a very policy savvy audience and was clearly in his element - he and founder Shai Agassi have clearly been at this a while now - and are getting increasingly comfortable with government simultaneous as catalyst and regulator. Questions were still coming on strong when it had to be called for time. Great stuff.

[Custom dissertation]

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