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CONSERVATION ALERT: Hawaii Island customers asked to reduce electricity use until 9 p.m. tonight | MarketScreener
CONSERVATION ALERT: Hawaii Island clients requested to scale back electrical energy use till 9 p.m. tonight
Launch Date: 11/22/2022
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HILO, Nov. 22, 2022 – Hawaiian Electrical is asking Hawaii Island clients to restrict their use of electrical energy from now to 9 p.m. tonight. The necessity for conservation is prompted by the sudden lack of a number of giant mills. As well as, wind sources are forecast to be decrease than ordinary and electrical energy demand has been unusually excessive since final week attributable to humid climate.
Hawaiian Electrical’s combustion turbine CT-1 unit and steam generator Hill 6 are offline attributable to emergency repairs and Keahole Energy Plant steam turbine annual upkeep work continues. As well as, one unit at Hamakua Power, an impartial energy producer, stays offline attributable to sudden points. Mixed, these items normally provide about 66 megawatts of energy. Impartial energy producer Puna Geothermal Enterprise’s output is also decrease than anticipated.
The night peak demand is when electrical energy use is highest. Utilizing much less electrical energy from 5 to 9 p.m. helps guarantee sufficient energy is accessible throughout these hours. Conservation strategies embody turning off air conditioners and pointless lighting, shutting off water heaters, and delaying actions like cooking, showering, laundry, and dishwashing. Bigger industrial clients, together with authorities, accommodations and retail, had been requested to voluntarily cut back electrical energy use.
If mandatory, rolling 30-minute outages might be initiated to guard the electrical system and stop lack of energy to a good higher variety of clients. The impacted areas and the timing of the outages might be primarily based on the quantity of electrical demand that must be decreased. Hawaiian Electrical will notify clients prematurely by means of social media. Please verify @HIElectricLight on Twitter for updates.
Disclaimer HEI – Hawaiian Electrical Industries Inc. revealed this content material on 22 November 2022 and is solely chargeable for the knowledge contained therein. Distributed by Public, unedited and unaltered, on 23 November 2022 03:24:05 UTC.
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Hawaii Deploying Drones to Kill Hated Frog
Kermit the Frog better watch out!
Drone Wars
Wildlife officials in Hawaii are using aerial drones to wage chemical warfare on coqui frogs by dumping citric acid on these invasive creatures, thereby killing them — along with any tadpoles and eggs.
The officials are using drones to eradicate the frogs because they recently found a population of the amphibians in a mountainous strip of land on the island of Oahu that’s inaccessible to pest control crews, according to a statement from the state’s Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR).
It’s a wild scenario that somehow encapsulates the environmental problems many fragile ecosystems are facing — the introduction of foreign species — along with how us humans are turning to technology, like drones, to solve them.
The infestation of coqui frogs, so named because of the distinctive sound they make, was detected by a resident who heard them noisily croaking in the island’s Kuliʻouʻou Forest Reserve, according to the DLNR, a spectacular and mountainous tropical forest with scenic views.
Wildlife experts following up on that tip then discovered that about 13 acres of forest were plagued by these frogs, setting off a mad scramble to deploy the drones.
The drones are dumping a watery solution with a citric food additive on infested areas, according to the DLNR. Non-toxic to humans, the frogs are fatally susceptible to this solution because they absorb the liquid through their porous skin.
Frog Sothoth
Hawaii officials want to kill off these cute-looking frogs because they have no natural predators in the island state, hence why their population has exploded over recent decades. They also have an incredible appetite, devouring native insects and spiders that indigenous animals like birds rely on for food.
The frogs originally came to Hawaii from their native Puerto Rico in the 1980s while hitching aboard nursery plants as stowaways.
Since then, wildlife officials have been pushing a campaign to kill them off, and not just for the benefit of native fauna and flora. These frogs are piercingly loud, with males reaching 90 decibels, or about the noise level of a lawn mower. Basically, they’re noise pollution nightmares.
Since the problem was caused by humans, it seems only fitting local authorities are turning to a human-engineered solution to help them in killing off these slimy, beady-eyed pests.
Hopefully the drones will prove to be effective in controlling these plague of frogs so that places like Oahu preserve their pristine beauty.
More on frogs: Scientists Surprised to Find Mushroom Growing Out of Frog
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Artist Jasper Wong joins “Upfront with Guy Hagi” to check out the new art in “Hawaii Walls 2024”
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – In this month’s episode of “Upfront with Guy Hagi,” professional artist and Kalani graduate Jasper Wong takes Guy on a tour of this year’s “Hawaii Walls” mural festival.
Formerly known as ‘Pow Wow,’ the annual event aims to uplift under-served communities in Hawaii through public art.
This year, 40 murals were painted on the walls of three school campuses in Kalihi.
Wong is the co-organizer of the event and hopes the art will help inspire and have a positive impact in the community.
“The reason why we started it was to one, beautify communities because we feel like walls are just walls. Like no one cares about them when they’re just painted a color, but you add art to it, they become alive,” said Wong.
For more about the event and the roster of artists, visit worldwidewalls.com.
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