Solar Power, Not Revenge Against Magnum, Acts as Big Payback in Hawaii

Summary: Solar power, not revenge against Magnum by abducting his private investigative partner Higgins Feb. 19, 2021, acts as the big payback in Hawaii.

Sheep at La Ola Solar Farm on Lanai trim grass and weeds in hard-to-reach places under solar panels; March 7, 2011, photo by Merrill Smith, U.S. Department of Energy: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Solar power, not revenge against Magnum by abducting his private investigative partner Higgins on Magnum’s The Big Payback crime action drama television series episode Feb. 19, 2021, acts as actual big payback.

Director Yangzom Brauen and writer David Wolkove perhaps borrow from a same-named James Brown (May 3, 1933-Dec. 25, 2006) album title for Season Three’s ninth episode. The series’ 49th episode overall considers case consequences for private investigator Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez), not the criticized conduct of the South Carolinian singer/songwriter’s female companion. Hawaiians devoted to dazzling, fossil fuel-deprived islands perhaps discern solar power, where mainland Unitedstatesians draw personal or professional revenge, from any declarations dwelling upon big paybacks.

Traditional Hawaiians perhaps envision solar power as an energy source eased into the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries and as expressing both cultural and environmental logic.

Maui, son of ‘Akalana and moon goodess Hinaakeahi, forced heavens and sun upward, away from flattening Earth and Earthlings and for fomenting farmer-friendly, longer, fine-weather days.

State legislation in the twenty-first century guides the 50th state away from fossil fuels absent from, and toward renewable energy sources available on, all Hawaiian islands. The U.S. Energy Information Administration in Washington, D.C., has statistics from August 2019 for electricity sources under coal, geothermal, hydroelectric, other, petroleum, solar and wind headings. U.S. Federal Statistical System information respectively identifies 67.62, 13.12, 7.47, 5.43, 3.23, 2.10 and 1.03 percent from petroleum, coal, other, wind, geothermal, solar and hydroelectric sources.

No one grid joins all the Hawaiian islands together even as Hawaii, Kauai, Lanai, Maui and Oahu journey through such renewable energy sources as solar power.

No utility keeps Kahoolawe (from Hawaiian ka, “the”; ho’o, “causing”; and lawe, “to carry away”) and Niihau (from Hawaiian ni’i, “salt-encrusted” and hau, “cool breeze") electrified.

Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. lights the big namesake island Hawaii (from Hawaiian ha, “breath”; wai, “water”; and ‘i, “supreme”) with its Hawaii Electric Light Company, Inc. It makes Oahu (from Hawaiian o’ahu, “gathering place”), most populous and second-most massive Hawaiian main island, electrically modern with its utility monikered Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. It names Maui Electric Company, Limited its utility for negotiating the power needs of Lanai (from Hawaiian lā, “day” and na’i, “to conquer”), Maui and Molokai.

Kauai Utility Cooperative, outside Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. and likewise not opposed to solar power, operates on Kauai (from Hawaiian kau, “to place” and a’i, “there”).

The U.S. Energy Information Administration profiled California, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont at $11.43 to $15.93 per kilowatt-hour.

The above-mentioned U.S. Federal Statistical System agency respectively quantified Alaska and Hawaii at $15.94 to $20.45 and at $29.40 to $34.00 for that same year, 2013. Robert Fares, American Association for the Advancement of Science Science and Technology Policy Fellow, reveals geographical isolation resisting resolving excess and intermittent production from rooftop panels. William Giese, Executive Director of Hawaii Solar Energy Association for solar water heating and photovoltaic system industrialists, sees stressed customers, financing and permitting from COVID-strained 2020-2021.

Twelve percent of the total population treasures solar power, teamed with other alternative sources to turn their archipelago into first transmitter of 100 percent renewable energy.

(upper left) "Rick" Wright (Zachary Knighton) and Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez); (upper right) Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez) and Kumu (Amy Hill); (lower left) Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez), "Rick" Wright (Zachary Knighton) and "TC" (Stephen Hill); (lower right) HPD Detective Gordon Katsumoto (Tim Kang), "Rick" Wright (Zachary Knighton), "TC" (Stephen Hill) and Thomas Magum (Jay Hernandez) in Magnum P.I.'s Big Payback (season 3 episode 9): Fandom Of Magnum P.I. (CBS) @MagmumPIFandom, via Twitter Feb. 15, 2021

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Sheep at La Ola Solar Farm on Lanai trim grass and weeds in hard-to-reach places under solar panels; March 7, 2011, photo by Merrill Smith, U.S. Department of Energy: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sheep_under_solar_panel.jpg; United States government work, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/departmentofenergy/35502215304/

Fandom Of Magnum P.I. (CBS) @MagmumPIFandom, via Twitter Feb. 15, 2021, @ https://twitter.com/MagmumPIFandom/status/1361499563400433664

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