text: You are welcome to go ahead and live in such a thing...in the mean time, HEI isn't thinking of a small home windmill, but 5MW worth of industrial wind power on the smallest of the islands.  Do you want it next to your house?  And once that is in place, how many more to come?  How do you spell Trojan Horse?
  When you scrape the soil with a blade in Hawaii, it never comes back. So the giant footing itself and the  access roads to maintain it and the huge windmill, plus all the infrastructure required to get it all on site.  Lets see, did they ever clean up the mess of dead windmills on South Point of the Big Island?  Are they really going to be able to do that in 20 years or less when they crap out or become obsolete?  
  By the way, my house is energy neutral to negative.  I need no AC or heating.  Solar heats my water,  prepares my food and washes my dishes and clothes. How about you wind lovers?
  "Wind Energy" is a curse used by shills of NextEra and the HEI Executive Board.