I vote pro NUCLEAR power plant.
Clean, green, efficient !
Hey its better than oil right!??!?
im pro solar
its all of the above, well except maybe efficiency, and nuclear isn't exactly clean when you consider disposal and storage of spent rods which has extra-human lifespan.
(in the end it may be futile to argue this point simply because oil would be needed to kickstart the production of any of these alternative energy sources on massive scale, for example, oil is inexplicably needed to produce solar energy because the materials needed to make solar panels depends on being transported by vehicles that use oil, therefore the cost of oil is built into the cost of solar panels)
but where it lacks in efficiency it makes up in far less risk of total catastrophic failure, and if a nuclear plant were to implode in Hawaii the land would be polluted with radiation for generations.
After fukushima I'm convinced island and sea-faring locations are no place for a nuclear power plant, especially in such close proximity to an active volcano
nonetheless nuclear will probably never see daylight here in my life time thanks to the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative which calls for Hawaii's energy mix to be at least 70% renewable energy by 2030. Renewable energy includes biomass, solar, wind, geothermal, ocean thermal, hydrokinetic.
You might be surprised to know that as a state we are rapidly approaching this goal.
Nevertheless the real goal is to decrease OIL dependency. Which means anything other than oil. Ironically, its ok to frack and destroy vast wilderness and pollute fresh water supplies in the name of this charter. Well, at least its not oil !!!!
