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Here you will find older scratches, musings and other detritus that once were located on the front pages, but have now faded.

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On occasion I may come down here to tidy, but for the most, I prefer to leave the past where it lies.

 

Iceland

I was just reading this article which is talking about how Iceland is the only country in the world which obtains 100% of its electricity and heat from renewable sources and how over the next 20-30 years will be utilising geo-thermal energy as a basis for hydrogen fuel cells for its cars, making it 100% self sustained, and probably a net exporter given its only utilising about 1/4 of the readily available energy.

I was amazed to read:

Half of Rejkjavic's elecricity supply is provided by the Nesjavellir Geothermal Power Plant pictured above. Located about 20 miles from Rejkjavic, the plant has three condensing steam units producing a total of 90MW of electricity
which implies Rejkjavic uses about 180MW.

Our main computer room at work on its own uses just over 1MW.

Makes you wonder.

24 Mar 2007 23:58 | (0) comments | Thoughts


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