“The state's combination of abundant renewable resources, high fuel prices, limited geographic area, and recognized expertise in hydrogen technology R&D, makes it an ideal location to lead the state's transition to a renewable energy-to-hydrogen economy. By attracting considerable investments of capital and expertise to Hawaii, we will be investing wisely for our future needs.”
“Everybody that comes on these missions gets meetings. There are government meetings that are necessarily limited not necessarily by us. For some of these meetings, the sponsors do have access to these meetings.”
“We passed a gas price cap law without knowing what was actually happening. The price cap brought us from no government intervention in the markets to an absolute government intervention.”
“We've now known for 31 years since the first oil embargo that Hawaii's precarious position as the state most dependent and exposed to foreign crude oil is unacceptable.”
“It's a challenge to get researchers to think more in commercial terms ? to take things off the research bench and put them into the commercial area. It is a process. Hopefully, we'll start seeing more results in the foreseeable future.”
