Monday, November 19, 2012

United Kingdom, Iceland:

How Iceland’s Volcanoes — and a Very Long Cable — Could Fix Britain’s Energy Needs (Ottawa Citizen)

British homes could be running on electricity generated from the power of Icelandic volcanoes within a decade. It’s no, um, pipe dream.

The geothermal energy, piped to Britain through the world’s longest sea-bed power cable, would be no more expensive than that produced by the next generation of nuclear power plants, according to the man overseeing the project.

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