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There seems to be lots of wind potential around the scottish isles and iceland. I wonder how feasible it would be to plaster turbines over iceland and then sell
by the8472 10y ago
There seems to be lots of wind potential around the scottish isles and iceland. I wonder how feasible it would be to plaster turbines over iceland and then sell that energy to europe.
- bckygldstn 10y agoIceland already produces much more energy than it needs through geothermal and hydro. Connecting the Icelandic power grid to the rest of the world seems to be currently infeasible [1], so instead they "export" the surplus energy through their aluminium industry: raw ore is shipped in from around the world, and high-energy refined aluminium is shipped out. Similarly-isolated New Zealand does a similar thing, refining aluminium ore from Australia using abundant hydro power [2]. [1] http://www.landsvirkjun.com/researchdevelopment/research/submarinecabletoeurope http://www.landsvirkjun.com/researchdevelopment/research/sub... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwai_Point_Aluminium_Smelter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwai_Point_Aluminium_Smelter