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FWIW, about 12.8% says https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/iceland#how-much-of-the-country-s-energy-comes-from-fossil-fuels https://ourworldindata.org/ene
by eesmith 4y ago
FWIW, about 12.8% says https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/iceland#how-much-of-the-country-s-energy-comes-from-fossil-fuels https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/iceland#how-much-o... . (Wikipedia says 15% at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Iceland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Iceland but that uses a 10 year old source.)
- samatman 4y agoThat's energy, OP referred to power, which normally means generated power in these discussions. All of the fossil energy is oil, none is coal, and I believe that's all used in transportation and a tiny bit of heating in the hinterlands. I wonder how the flying in and out is accounted for in these sorts of figures, if hydrocarbons are ever replaced in aviation it will be dead last after everything else.
- eesmith 4y agoOkay. OP' parent referred to "global replacement for fossil fuels or it would have supplanted them already". I found Iceland's "Fuel Use Forecast" at https://nea.is/fuel/forecast/nr/132 https://nea.is/fuel/forecast/nr/132 , which appear to be from 2007. It shows aviation as the biggest - and growing - consumer of fuel.
- samatman 4y agoIceland has so much access to power that they're likely to be the first country to export net negative carbon in some fashion: aluminum I'd guess, we always need that. This won't involve burning less jet fuel and resembles a Papal indulgence, but maintaining an industrial civilization while decarbonizing industry is impossible without this kind of accounting.