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The biggest problem to finding alternatives is the relatively cheap cost of energy. Well it aint cheap in Hawaii and that has spurred a LOT of investigation. Again on Kaui, Wilcox Hospital, I was involved in putting in a co-generation plant. The local electric company fought that project tooth and nail because they were going to, and did, loose a huge client for electrical useage.

You can bet the coal industry will fight just as hard to maintain the status quo. But alternatives ARE coming like a freight train roaring down a mountain, and it won't be stopped.