Tech | December 18, 2010 | 15 comments

Iceland's clean energy revolution

source: http://netgreennews.com/ngn-exclusive-president-grimsson-on-iceland%E2%80%99s-clean-energy-r...

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NetGreen News recently sat with with the President of Iceland to talk about Iceland's clean energy revolution
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  • DogBoy
  • royulery
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      royulery  

    • i was a well logger on geothermal sites in western idaho. the potential for making hydrogen fuel for next to nothing from hot rocks has been available from at least the mid 70's(when i was on those rigs).
      we punched 2 dozen wells to hot rock and just capped them off. the government paid 1/2 a million a hole to phillips petro for exploration of possibility of use. i know at that time that many geothermal wells were in production in arizona and more were being slated to start drilling shortly. i wanted in on the arizona sites but they told me, there is no place for a drunken indian on a sober crew. oh well, i could drink to that.
      the point is, we have the potential to run all the cars in the west off of h2 fuel from the geothermal wells that are just capped off, hidden and waiting until the oil is gone.

    • 1 year ago
  • artemis6
  • echelgreen
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      echelgreen  
    • royulery:

      Hydrogen as a fuel source sounds fantastic in theory, but how could an infrastructure be implemented in the U.S.? I understand that their are numerous ways to generate it from electrolysis in fuel cells, to geothermal, and even algae and other organisms, whether they be natural or synthesized in the future. We are also developing materials on the nano scale to aid in safer storage. But what kind of infrastructure would have to be put into effect? In my opinion, it seems like there's too much of an overhaul in infrastructure to make it happen anytime soon. Any ideas?

    • 1 year ago
  • royulery
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      royulery  
    • echelgreen:

      right you are. i was using h2 as an example but it is a poor choice for chemical, energy storage. hydrogen has the smallest atom and will leak through stainless steel, eventually.

    • 1 year ago
  • MizPiz
  • Vierotchka
  • RaceBannon
  • royulery
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      royulery  

    • no fair. they're sitting on top of a magma chamber. if they didn't use geothermal they wouldn't just be stupid but broke.

    • 1 year ago
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  • Vierotchka
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