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NeoConsSuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 06:42 PM
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Iceland phasing out fossil fuels for clean energy
Source: CNN.COM

Iceland maybe best known for world-famous musical export Bjork but there's a new star quickly gaining this island nation world-wide acclaim -- clean energy.

For more than 50 years this rainy-windswept rock of fire and ice has been decreasing its dependence on fossil fuels by tapping the natural power all around them.

Waterfalls, volcanoes, geysers and hot springs provide Icelanders with abundant electricity and hot water.

Virtually all of the country's electricity and heating comes from domestic renewable energy sources -- hydroelectric power and geothermal springs.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/09/18/driving.iceland/index.html
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 06:43 PM
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1. Even Iceland puts us to shame! nt
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 06:44 PM
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2. Naturally, they're way ahead of us, because NOBODY COULD HAVE FORSEEN CLIMATE CHANGE.
Jeepers, I want to wring some necks.
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 08:09 PM
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3. Renewable my ass! Just wait until the Earth's mantle cools off!
Where will you get your lava power then, smart guys?
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lurky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 10:21 PM
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6. He he he!!
:-)

Yeah, and I can't want to hear all those solar power hippies whine when their precious little sun runs out of fuel. They'll sure wish they bought Exxon stock when that happens!
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Solon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 11:00 PM
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8. They'll worry about that when it starts to become a problem, say in 2+ billion years or so.
:)
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-21-07 09:25 AM
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12. Short-term thinking! nt
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-21-07 01:24 PM
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14. After that, they'll go back to raids
...Viking-style. Take the women and candle oil.

They're lucky to have a solid fall-back plan. :D
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 08:26 PM
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4. Iceland has heated sidewalks in places in the winter..
and it isn't so homeless people will have a warm place to sleep.
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burrowowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-22-07 12:31 AM
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16. They probably don't have many homeless
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Yupster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 09:51 PM
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5. Is whale oil considered clean energy?
http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/stop-icelandic-whaling
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rayofreason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 10:24 PM
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7. Iceland is blessed...
...with geothermal power, but it is not a great thing to live on top of a volcanically active area.

In 1783, the was a terrible eruption at Laki that led to the death of 50% of the livestock and 21% of the humans on the island.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laki

I like my geothermal power far, far away.
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Solon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 11:05 PM
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9. True, though nowadays, Icelanders are quite adept at dealing with seismic activities...
When you live near, or on, in this case, a geographically active place like Iceland, you learn to live with it.
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bikebloke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-21-07 09:49 AM
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13. Stopped a lava flow
I think it was in the 70's, there was a lava flow approaching a village. Using fire hoses, they cooled the approaching tongue of lava, creating a dam.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-21-07 12:39 AM
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10. I love to hear news of the Free World. It gives us hope.
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gate of the sun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-21-07 01:17 AM
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11. Let 's take their example
we won't..........we are the worst purveyor and contributers to the "change" and we are not about to let one penny slip from the Almighty god corporations.......meanwhile the world will continue to send warnings which will never be heard and corporations will get more tax breaks.
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ksilvas Donating Member (310 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-21-07 11:10 PM
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15. Iceland is blessed with many things,
Geothermal and Wind
Small steady homogeneous population. Population does not exceed resources.
Energy needs concentrated on heat and electricity only. More efficient
Northern mentality, tends to be more progressive in attitude. Opinion
Pagan identity still mostly intact, hence more progressive. Oxymoron
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