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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – March 19, 2019 <br /> <br />KO: Yes.. <br /> <br />SM: When you guys get rid of the eucalyptus you guys been planting back <br />eucalyptus or some other type of tree because they say the eucalyptus is not <br />good for the ground in the first place. <br /> <br />KO: What do you mean by not well for the ground? <br /> <br />SM: Well, it’s toxic. I mean you cannot plant anything underneath the trees. My <br />neighbor tries to plant a garden underneath and he has to just put so much <br />fertilizer in there to have anything growing. <br /> <br />KO: I’m more on the power plant side. We get somebody that is on the planting <br />and harvesting side. If you give me questions or Lorraine is you get those <br />questions to her – I can have those answered for you. I don’t know anything <br />about the toxicity of the soil but I do know that the nutrients that the tree uses <br />– the ash will actually replenish that nutrients. <br /> <br />SM: We heard some talk about hemp being used... <br /> <br />KO: I can’t say we’re not permitted – I don’t know – our plan – our model right now <br />is to burn eucalyptus trees and we can supplement it also with – I think we <br />can take up to about 10% albezia. And we’ll have to test it – there might be, <br />you know, more that we can take but we just have to run those cycles. <br /> <br />GD: In your presentation you said that you’re using salt water as the water that <br />you’re pumping... <br /> <br />KO: It’s brackish water... Salinity to it, yes. <br /> <br />GD: OK. And then you also said that most of it that’s being pumped out is also <br />going to be pumped back in and it’s only going to be one degree Celsius <br />hotter. How is that supposed to work when – cause from what I gather – how <br />a power plant like this is supposed to work and maybe this is a misconception <br />– is that you burn the eucalyptus to make the water evaporate – right? Spin a <br />turbine, which spins an electric motor and then that produces the electricity. <br /> <br />KO: Yes. So when it mixes with the water and the brackish aquifer and, again, <br />you’ve got two different aquifers there – you’re got a fresh water and a <br />brackish – we’re right close to the coastline where it’s brackish so when it <br />mixes with the water down in that aquifer – that’s what I’m talking about – that <br />one degree C. <br /> <br />GD: And so water is being evaporated, though, as the power plant produces <br />electricity. <br />8 <br /> <br /> <br />