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Iceland has a massive amount of geothermal and hydroelectricity. A large portion of that electricity is exported in the form of aluminum.

• IAmBroom 11mo ago
  What a fascinating sentence to read!
  • morkalork 11mo ago
    It's an interesting way to frame it, like how California exports water to Saudi Arabia via alfalfa
  • speed_spread 11mo ago
    Aluminum can be thought of as "solid electricity". Base mineral is abundant but transfomation is energy-expensive.