On Apr 23, 11:18*pm, "Rod Speed" wrote:
sigvaldi wrote









Rod Speed wrote
charles wrote
wrote:
Tim wrote
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.
Iceland uses geothermal and hydro,

What I said.

it is just a little difficult to use it in cars.

No one said anything about cars.

Ok, to make it clear, all electricity and water for heating is from
renewable sources.
What is not from renewable sources is oil and related products for the
cars, fishing fleet etc.