Billing justice comes to Kalaeloa rentals — we hope

Bloated utility bills — some as high as $800 a month — should no longer be the norm for residents of Kalaeloa Rental Homes now that the owner and manager of the complex have installed individual water and electricity meters at each home.

Previously, many of the homes didn’t have meters and the bills were based on square footage and the number of occupants. That led to sky-high bills, forcing some residents to take on second jobs just to pay for utilities.

It’s good to hear that a $300,000-plus investment was made to install the meters. And it’s even better that some residents will be receiving refunds for higher-than-normal water and sewage bills due to a waterline leak.

Fly me to the moon, and my lunar base, too?

Talk about pie in the sky, or should that be “moon” in the sky?

Local philanthropist and high-tech entrepreneur Henk Rogers is proposing that a prototype lunar base be built somewhere on Hawaii Island, followed by actually launching to the moon the base components and robot workers to assemble them, so Hawaii can be in the forefront of efforts to expand human development beyond planet Earth.

Rogers, who also is founder of the Blue Planet Foundation, on Tuesday offered his proposal as chairman of the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems at the 2016 Hawaii Aerospace Summit at the state Capitol, coordinated by the state Office of Aerospace Development.

Rogers called his proposal a B-HAG, or “big, hairy, audacious goal,” and in the absence of any cost estimates and who specifically would pay for it, we would have to agree. Vision isn’t always 20-20.