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- jhaven, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9iceland++;
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if only more countries would seriously consider adopting alternative fuel sources - Lingur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm an Icelander who lives in Iceland! :)
I've heard about this before, about 4 years ago to be precise. It's pretty easy for us to do this since we have an almost unlimited access to geothermal energy. We never have to worry about our water or electricity bill since it's very very cheap here. It's very common for people to have jacuzzis (sp?) in their backyard. We have one in our summerhouse :) - Ramon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If i could tripledigg this I would! Nice to see someone trying. I Hope more will follow!
- dstart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Other countries should follow their example. Though this will never happen, too much money to be lost.
- Blueshrike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Go Iceland! That's wonderful news.
- gr00vy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Good. This means 3 more months of gas for us!
- donutz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Good for Iceland. Which other countries have enough geothermal activity to generate enough fuel for all its cars?
- JasonPrini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Iceland has gobs of geothermal power, which is a really good source for making hydrogen {I think there's a method that uses steam}.
They have a population of ~ 250,000 people, making any kind of nation wide change a lot easier than the US, with 1000X more people.
Iceland is small, so moving H2 around is not too expensive.
They're a great leader for H2 conversion, and could help the rest of the planet a lot with this. - MikeCampo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Has anyone seen this page before? http://digg.com/commentrate I thought it was kinda cool :p
- frequencyone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good for them. I had a chance to spend a few days in Iceland last June. Beeaauuutiful country!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+153 comments and not one Bjork joke?
- ElGstr, on 01/06/2009, -0/+1Cool
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- bmson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1where the land mass is larger...
And where the gas companys sell more and have more money... so no - jmlz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lets move to iceland !!!
- snarfyboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Geothermal energy is not powering their cars. That part of the article was about heating their water.
They are using water (hydrogen fuel) to power their automobiles. I think the US has access to plenty of water. - whateverdigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Now if they could only move Iceland down to tropical latitude I'd move!
- nerdofnerds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1++digg
This is very important news...i really hope other countries are to follow... - PAStheLoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The way to go ..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1guess i should have rtfa. yea, it's funny how we are so concerned about fighting the powers of nature instead of harnessing them.
- rekrapt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Try (v): To make an effort to do or accomplish (something); attempt:
Let's not count our chickens before they hatch. I wish them luck, but economics may defeat them. - xtr40rd1nary, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1two thumbs up !! go Iceland
oh and you can't compare America to Iceland however it's a shame that the USA is not working on alternative resources yet it's doing a great job on steeling oil as much as it can from those helpful weak countries. - DurangoSteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why can't Canada be more like Iceland ?
- pennello, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And where does the electricity used for reverse electrolysis come from? Turbines? Does their efficiency or quantity match the output of oil-based power generation methods to produce large-scale quantities of hydrogen? If not, then this seems like a poor idea to me. I'm not saying oil is any better, but it's easy to get excited about "renewable" energy sources without thinking it all the way through...
Heck, if their geothermal energy is plentiful enough, they could become a major exporter of hydrogen fuel. - wblogger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I heard Germany was starting to get hydrogen "petrol stations". And the nice thing was that the whole system (which was being tested on BMW series 7 on "Aral" stations) was automatic. You didn't have to get out of the car to pump the hydrogen.
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - konstratos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1+Digg, Good on ya Iceland. You Rock!
- Ajzzz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If only more countries would consider having a volcano* large enough to support the whole population through turbines and geothermal energy
*they use the sea too. technically they use tides, which from my limited knowledge has something to do with the moon.
In all seriousness though, Iceland is a great for doing this, and giving me the sweet sweet Emiliana Torrini, Bjork, and a ***** load of people with names ending in sson, which I'm sure are great too. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Iceland is indeed the greatest country on Earth. I saw a Beyond Petroleum hydrogen pump there in 2004. Check out pictures of Iceland on my website.
http://www.dpodgor.net - etruscan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1First the Pixies and Bjork.
Then Eve Online.
Now this.
I for one welcome our new Icelandic overlords. - mikeruiz7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I watched a documentary on this last year -- they're probably the only Country that can even possibly ever pull it off--since they're relatively small and have such a good supply of H(2). Either way, very interesting and I hope it works.
- monkenstick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love iceland
first bjork
then sigur ros
and now this - _jens_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's a nice idea.. But I know this will never happen, We (I live in Iceland btw) will pass the US in 2007 with most cars pr citizen! Just last year there was over 20.000 new cars imported! Thats a lot considering only 300.000 people live here.. People LOVE cars here, specially the SUVs and would never give em up for anything.. ever!
- Noloco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We could go on and on. America needs to change. Iceland is changing,etc. I'm proud that this is happening. I'm glad to see one country finally converting,but it doesn't stop there. Though we may convert to more friendly ways of contributing to the environment. We still continue to grow in population. Every year there is more people in this world and yet it will continue to be so. As we only get more advanced in medicine,technology,etc. Though one day we will end up over populating and don't forget the more we mine the more we take. The more destruction that comes of everything will continue to happen. America and every country contributes. We strayed from being part of tribes and took on farming. Here we are still,but we only make things worst and it just doesn't stop. But can we ever go back ? Can we decrease population ? Decrease every destruction we have done ? Can we do anything right ?
- SyDIGG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Jurgen please don't crush the liberals hope of utopia. They act like they don't need oil themselves. They should look around their surroundings as they commute to work ALONE in their big cars, observing its just not the gas their cars guzzle but all the other petro products that are part of the modern world today ie plastics.
Oh guess who took a private jet for a 1 day global warming summit in South America? None other then Al Gore the Priest of their cult himself. Hiprocrisy knows no boundry. - Reddog_x2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Re: dirty liberals...letting the terrorists win.
I know this was a joke. But, in this case, it's the conservatives who are helping the terrorists. By keeping alternative fuels off the market, they are keeping us reliant on Middle Eastern Oil. If we didn't need that oil, we could get a hell of a lot more aggressive about pursuing terrorists wherever they may be. - redwards, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Article fails to mention the quantity of energy it takes to perform the hydrogen separation. I hope they have a WHOLE LOT of that hydroelectric power.
Good for them, though. A worthy goal. - Berkana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Iceland uses tons of geothermal energy. I'm sure if we really tried, we probably could pull off the same in Hawaii, given that there's plenty of geothermal action going there.
Even if Iceland were to eliminate the use of petrolium fuel, if they use plastics at all, they will probably have to use petrolium to some extent, as all plastics except for experimental bioplastics and the few silicone polymers are petrolium based. (And even the silicone rubbers have some sort of petrolium content.) - SyDIGG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0jens lol thanks for the perspective of things over there in Iceland. SUVs in Iceland??? omg whoever thought!
- MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We might not have a big problem if some of the insecure American drivers would stop buying huge cars because "they feel protected"
- SSharwood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great story ... but aeons old. Iceland has been talking this up for ages.
And it doesn't even mention their long use of geothermal power too. Most heating in Iceland comes from hot water piped out of the ground into radiators.
I visited Iceland in 2000. Great trip, even if it was only for the weekend. Go! - dhs100, on 05/15/2008, -0/+0Hmmm....you seem to have fundamentally misunderstood everything here, which is odd since you seem to understand simple chemistry.
Producing hydrogen from petrochemicals would be very silly indeed. You'd simply be wasting energy and be producing pollutants converting one form of fuel to another. That's pointless. Using geothermal energy to split water is a good idea because, in effect, the efficiency doesn't matter since nothing is actually being consumed that wasn't being consumed naturally (ignoring basic overheads). Fuel cells reverse the process to produce energy with the clever use of advanced catalysts. - sentai, on 09/06/2008, -0/+0http://www.cu6.info I was looking for a long time something like this, i'm glad i found it here
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Go Iceland!
In this day and age of tech there are no excuses for anyone to continue using oil.
Sadly the USA does everything we can to prevent alternate fuel sources from being used when there are much better choices out there.
I hope to see this change in my life time. - SyDIGG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Its a nice and noble effort but lets be honest here. The US has free market. Its up to individuals to curb their oil consumption. If there is a demand for it, the market will provide it. The government can only feebly help it along. "Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?"
- thetyrant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0IM not too big on save the planet stuff.. but this is great to see that iceland is using its "natural" resources with advancded technology to better the world.. and its enviroment.. It will be nice to see how things change without the country constantly polluated with carbon pollutates.. maybe it will have a added bonus to health, longevity, and vegetation growth. and the less they spend into a global oil monolopy the more they will have to fund other finances for the country.
- fishgeekva, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0more countries need to follow their example, but we know the US won't until its forced to.
Go Iceland! - akghost001, on 03/16/2008, -0/+0A noble idea! I wish the best to the people of Iceland and to their government who have made such a conscious decision. Kudos! But is it practical?
http://www.oilbeat.com - PacoBell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0To all you people whining about how water vapor is a greenhouse gas...ever heard of something called rain? Looks like a lot of folks flunked out of their environmental science classes ¬_¬
- dasvoldus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's not allowed Iceland. Iceland has been reported to the NSA for unpatriotic activity.
- Nerfdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow, that sucks for iceland. alternate fuels are a great alternative, but abandoning gasoline altogether? i don't think i could do that, i'm not ready to turn in my SCCA membership card just yet ;)
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