Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Iceland, U.K.:

Icelandic Volcanoes Could Heat British Homes (Daily Telegraph)


Geothermal energy could be piped to Britain through the world's longest seabed power cable but would be no more expensive than the next generation of nuclear energy.

The man overseeing the project, Hörður Arnarson, the head of Iceland's state-owned power producer Landsvirkjun, said that it could be completed by 2020.

He told the Times: "This is a technically challenging project, there's no doubt, but there is no doubt in our mind that it is doable."

"Both the length and the depth [of the cable needed] has been tested."

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