A guidebook to alternative energy projects on American Samoa, The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, The Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, and The Republics of the Marshall Islands and Palau. [Contains bibliography]

Technical Report · Fri May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1987

OSTI ID:5352410

Case, C W

The purpose of this guidebook is to help transfer information concerning alternative energy projects that have been tried on the Pacific islands affiliated with the US. These islands include those in American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia (Kosrae, Pohnpei, Truk, and Yap), Guam, and the Republics of the Marshall Islands and Palau. Distances are long between islands and populations are sparse, making communication and the transfer of information particularly difficult. A project that works on American Samoa might be appropriate for Yap, but to get this information to the proper people on Yap in a reasonable period of time is extremely difficult. This book describes 100 alternative energy projects that have been tried on the islands since the mid-1970's. This description and record of what has been done to date should be a source of ideas for energy workers, reduce duplication of work, and help encourage successes by describing other successes and failures. Alternative energy projects are projects that use indigenous, renewable resources in order to reduce local dependency on imported petroleum for electricity or liquid fuels. The islands have an apparent abundance of natural resources for this purpose such as the sun, rivers, vegetation, the ocean, and wind; and, ideally, it should be relatively simple to convert these resources to electricity or fuel. However, there are problems unique to the remote, tropical Pacific that often appear insurmountable, and successes to date are the results of unusual persistence, hard work, and ingenuity of those on the islands. Projects are confined to those that actually develop or demonstrate hardware. These projects use the complete spectrum of alternative technologies such as biomass conversion, wind electric, solar water heating, photovoltaics, wind water pumping, hydroelectric, water desalination, and integrated systems. 381 refs., 85 figs.

• Research Organization: Golden Gate Energy Center, Sausalito, CA (United States); Xavier High School, Moen, Truk (Micronesia)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG03-81SF11634
• OSTI ID: 5352410
• Report Number(s): DOE/SF/11634-T1; ON: DE91018875; CNN: C60161
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
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ADSORBENTS
ALLOYS
AMERICAN SAMOA
ANAEROBIC DIGESTION
BIOCONVERSION
BIOGAS PROCESS
BIOMASS
BIOMASS PLANTATIONS
CHARCOAL
DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
DIGESTION
ELECTRIC POWER
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
ENERGY
ENERGY SOURCES
EQUIPMENT
GOLD ALLOYS
GOLD BASE ALLOYS
GRANTS
GUAM
HEATING
HYDROELECTRIC POWER
ISLANDS
MACHINERY
MANAGEMENT
MARIANA ISLANDS
MARSHALL ISLANDS
MICRONESIA
NORTH AMERICA
OCEANIA
PALAU
PALLADIUM ALLOYS
PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SUPPLIES
PLATINUM METAL ALLOYS
POWER
POWER SUPPLIES
PROCESSING
PUMPS
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
RENEWABLE RESOURCES
RESOURCES
SOLAR CELL ARRAYS
SOLAR ENERGY
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR HEATING
SOLAR WATER HEATING
TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
TURBINES
TURBOMACHINERY
USA
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING
WATER HEATING
WIND POWER
WIND TURBINES
WIND-POWERED PUMPS