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>> The notion that you might heat a house with electricity or by setting trees or dinosaurs on fire is so foreign to Icelanders I'm sorry but this is hyperbole
by sib 3y ago
>> The notion that you might heat a house with electricity or by setting trees or dinosaurs on fire is so foreign to Icelanders
I'm sorry but this is hyperbole. I just spent nearly a week staying in a house *in Iceland* that was heated with wood and diesel fuel. Granted, it's an old house, built about 100 years ago, but it's hardly a foreign concept.
- avar 3y agoWas this a house or a hotel? Obviously my comment's a bit torque-in-cheek, but I've never heard of fossil fuel heating in Iceland in residential dwellings outside af Grímsey, an island 40km off the coast. There's fireplaces, but not for heating entire building, unless it's a small summer home or a cottage. I'm sure there's exceptions, but what I was pointing out is that geothermal heating is universal enough that the implications of the hot water being out don't need to be explained.
- sib 3y agoThis is a house, not a hotel. It's in Hornstrandir. (Coincidentally, I'm going to Grímsey this summer to shoot [with a camera!] puffins...)
- meheleventyone 3y agoJust for comparison my house was built in 1897 and whilst it had a chimney because it used to be heated that way it’s fully hooked up to hot water for heating.