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Judging from your comment Im assuming you do not live in Iceland, apologies if Im wrong. The reality is that there are only a handful of energy providers in Ic
by mg74 8y ago
Judging from your comment Im assuming you do not live in Iceland, apologies if Im wrong.
The reality is that there are only a handful of energy providers in Iceland capable of providing the energy at this scale, Landsvirkjun being the largest (by far).
These companies are either government owned or very sensitive to political realities, and will stop selling energy to mining centers if the pressure becomes strong enough.
- charlesdm 8y agoYou're right, I do not. Sure, but these companies would just relocate again? I don't see how that fixes things at the global level (aside from them leaving Iceland and relocating somewhere else, of course). Now they might at least be paying taxes and generating some jobs. If it wasn't used for mining, where would the excess power go?