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2017-05-08 Science & Technology

Iceland Uses Volcanos to Generate Pretty-Clean Electricity

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Posted by Bobby 2017-05-08 13:50|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Not perfect; not good enough for Greenpeace!

Greenpeace is not for clean energy - they're against cheap energy.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-08 14:12|| 2017-05-08 14:12|| Front Page Top

#2 It's all fun and games until your power supply erupts.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-05-08 14:46|| 2017-05-08 14:46|| Front Page Top

#3 GREAT! Soon we will have a crisis of Global Cooling since the radiators won't be giving off enough heat. Who will hear you banging on the pipes????

Posted by USN, Ret. 2017-05-08 15:25|| 2017-05-08 15:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Since we should all do anything that will reduce CO2 (except nuclear power, of course), we should immediately implement this all over the world. Of course, if we don't happen to have active volcanoes handy, we can just drill into the earth until we reach magma.

/sarcasm

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2017-05-08 15:49|| 2017-05-08 15:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Iceland, a fairly big and cold country has the highest per capita energy consumption in the world.

Wealthy people don't like to be cold.

Posted by phil_b 2017-05-08 16:06|| 2017-05-08 16:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Ah! Iceland! With a pretty girl behind every tree!

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-05-08 17:43|| 2017-05-08 17:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Actually we could run all of North America from the heat of the lava pool under Yellowstone.
Of course it would be a major change of course for the Interior Dept, the National Park Service and all the eco-groups. I don't see it happening even at Armageddon. Too many closed minds!

Posted by 3dc 2017-05-08 18:00|| 2017-05-08 18:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Works great until some twerp throws your ring into the volcano and then it's all over...

Posted by Sauron 2017-05-08 18:27|| 2017-05-08 18:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Ah! Iceland! With a pretty girl behind every tree!

Woooooohooooo!!! Wait... Iceland doesn't have trees...

Posted by DarthVader 2017-05-08 20:45|| 2017-05-08 20:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Aye, but there are pretty girls.

Went through the geothermal steam plant about 45km SE of Reykjavik about 5 years ago. What a plant! They had high pressure turbines, then they took the exhaust from that and fed a group of low pressure turbines. The place was alive when you went to the well field. It is impressive, and then a 1 meter diameter insulated pipe with hot water flowed to Reykjavic city for district heating. Wotta place!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-05-08 21:01|| 2017-05-08 21:01|| Front Page Top

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