| Abstract |
A geothermal commercial park located near Pahoa, Hawaii, has been found to be technically feasible in a current DOE funded study. However, community acceptance varies from optimistic support for the job opportunities to only lukewarm acceptance by most residents of the nearby planned residential community. Interviews, team evaluations, and calculations of energy and transportation savings were used to reduce a list of candidate processes to four. These four include an ethanol plant, a cattle feed mill, a protein recovery plant, and a papaya processing facility. In addition, a research laboratory is planned for the evaluation and demonstration of other processes identified as very promising. |