Congratulations St Johns College students and staff. This is the first step to building a Tesla Model S. Imagine would happen if the cycling club (carbon fiber, low rolling resistance), got together with the rowing club (aqua/aerodynamics) who got together with the golf cart folks (motor/controllers/drivetrain) who called the solar folks (PV power). We have forgotten the basics that we knew back in the day...Forward, Upward, Onward, Together. We live in the solar capital of the world, and we can do great things as a tiny nation...but we are too divided to win. We are like the town next to Niagra falls that didn't build a hydroelectric dam, because the town elders were all attorneys who's only interest was a 30% take on the flow of water.

It is amazing to watch persons collecting their pensions from Bahamasair...a "government run company" that has never turned a profit in its history. They must have a money printing machine in the building! Its the only plausible explanation. It must be nice to have one of those machines and to have the power to say "we can have one but you can't".

Taxation is the opiate of the politicians and public bureaucrats and they are always looking for the next fix. When government jobs are more esteemed than private jobs , a nation is doomed to the inevitable rapid decay of socialism. Free new car, free gas, free perks and tip potential as well...all from the teat of the public cow that can apparently be freely milked to death in short order. When the cow is dead, the next step is to kick it's corpse, spit on it and blame it for not meeting the governments drunken needs. The smart cows will all run away where there milk schedule is not abused but appreciated and where the milk benefits the public and the cow. Who can name a government cow that produced its own milk and gave it to the public?

9 steps to own and milk a Bahamian cow

Step 1: Tell the local farmers "you can't trust "those other people" to look after your cow because "they don't care for you and want to ultimately steal your cow". Convince the farmers they can trust you.
Step 2: Put a harness on the cow so you can lead it wherever you want
Step 3: Milk the cow during the day for the owners and secretly at night for yourself
Step 4: When the cow complains, place a few pieces of straw on its back and allow it to call someone, so it feels better and calms down
Step 5: When the cow has no more milk, hire those "other people" to "fix" the problem so you have someone to blame for the inevitable
Step 6: When the inevitable is evident to even the slowest cow owners, tell them the only way to fix the problem is to create a milk tax and charge the cow owner interest on the tax.
Step 7: Always blame the "other people" for your terrible cow situation and remind them of step one
Step 8: Publically praise yourself for being such a great manager of cows "under the circumstances".
Step 9: When everything else fails, sell the cow in the night to the "new" "other people" along with the owners land so the cow feels right at home in its familiar pen.

Dear Teenager...let me add to your education on current and past events:
1. The power is going out and will continue to go out because this country needs a new powerplant. We have known this since 1973.
2. There has been more than enough money flowing through this country, in that time period to have installed a new power plant
3. Now, we are drowning in debt, our creditworthiness is the worst possible, the government is taking it out on the people with more taxes, and businesses are shutting down or going out of business, which means less jobs available for you to apply for.
4. When most people in this country (including our leaders) don't plan past "Friday comin", you end up with a nation like ours. We have and are experiencing exactly what we planned for and the people have the government they deserve, unless of course they are willing to make changes.
In the meantime, buy a large UPS with a run time equal to your homework assignment. plus 20%, since you want to be better prepared than the generation that went before you!
Or... you can be like most and buy the latest headphones and sit in the dark with a burned up I phone. Be wise young man.

BEC $0.40 cents per KWh: destructive power and unreliable; post paid
Generator: $1.00 per Kwh: good power; post paid in fuel & maintenance; non regenerative

Solar off Grid: $0.40 cents per Kwh: clean reliable power; prepaid in solar panels; regenerative (fuels itself)

Prepay now or don't complain about the post paid plan!

Give a ten year credit on property taxes for homes and businesses to go off grid with solar...cleaner more stable power independent of all the current issues.

The local grid is no longer dependable. It is time to go off grid with solar and batteries. Stable, continuous power without politics and other factors. Independence and autonomy is freedom.

Lift up your heads to...

Mr. Holdom is Bahamian. They come in all shapes, sizes, education levels and colors. Is it not possible that Bahamians go away for higher education and come back home?

So to produce 100 MW of the capacity needed, we would install 50 of the 2 MW turbines? Anyone who owns a boat or a dock, knows how expensive it is to maintain something that sits on the water...let alone 50 spinning turbines that sit on the ocean floor! I presume you would need a submarine to service them? We should check the condition of our fleet :)