On Apr 23, 8:07*pm, "Rod Speed" wrote:
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Mike Tomlinson wrote
on Ars Technica:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/plans-afoot-to-tap-ic...
http://tinyurl.com/7s84abm
(this is related to an article in the Grauniad that I linked to a
while back.)
Interesting thatIcelanddon't get ALL their own energy from
geothermal sources yet and yet they're hoping to export buckets
of it. Not saying that it's not there for the taking but it just
seems
odd that they're not using 100% renewable power already.
Its basically because there is other cheaper power, most obviously
with hydro.
Geothermal does have other advantages for them tho,
most obviously with heating their *houses in winter etc.
you aren't suggesting hot water pipes fromIcelandto here are you?
Nope, just commenting on why they don’t use just geothermal
and why, when hydro is cheaper, they don’t have more hydro.-
I think a massive new hydro scheme has recently been completed.
Now they have discovered they can't live on being banksters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1...dropower_Plant
Interesting. They're certainly energetic buggers and even more
interesting
that the much more spectacular financial implosion than anyone else has
seen this time around has had so little effect on stuff like that too.
Corse they have **** all, so I guess they have to keep going somehow..-
They sell cod too. And aluminium.
Peanuts basically. Their total exports of all kinds are only $5B, it’s a
tiny little place.-
It was a tiny little RICH place.

Nope, it never was that. It was JUST another Ponzi scheme which was
always going to implode spectacularly just like ALL Ponzi schemes do.

Iceland is, post crash, one of the richest countries in the world, per
capita.
Nothing Ponzi related at all.