[PyncGyncliacy]

Sorry, but: Summary?

[Herimoisige]

Ouch. Indigestible text block.

[PymnImmen]

I hate Iceland, too!

[Goksiodiffeli]

One day, perhaps:

"Icelandic scientists discover the secret of paragraphs"

That opening post is unreadable in that form...

[alanamosteller]

Iceland has a billion dollars?

[Rounteetepe]

Move to Belgium.

[katespepach]

I hate your nation too, iskallin

[ggdfgtdfffhfyj]

jk

[FoetAgerhot46]

Originally posted by ískallin
the polish dudes who are being employed to build the dam probably hate it too. As they are underfed, underpaid living in the mountains building a dam.

They had the fifth fatal accident in the building of it yesterday. 5 deaths in 4 years building the damn thing Migrate man. Less Poles die over here.

[retrahdggd]

Originally posted by ískallin
the polish dudes who are being employed to build the dam probably hate it too. As they are underfed, underpaid living in the mountains building a dam.

They had the fifth fatal accident in the building of it yesterday. 5 deaths in 4 years building the damn thing It's all relative. That's how you view it. The polish dudes are probably as happy as pigs in slop.

[bitymnmictada]

Originally posted by ískallin
the polish dudes who are being employed to build the dam probably hate it too. As they are underfed, underpaid living in the mountains building a dam.

They had the fifth fatal accident in the building of it yesterday. 5 deaths in 4 years building the damn thing Don't worry about these Poles. Worry about all Icelanders living next to this seemingly crappy-built dam

[mv37afnr]

Originally posted by VetLegion
Why didn't Iceland decide to go all geothermal? Isn't it usually mentioned as an example of having plenty of geothermal power? I don't think Geothermal has the grunt required for heavy industry. Here's some perspective. The bluff aluminium smelter in New Zealand consumes 13% of the countries entire elecitricty output - it's powered by a hydroeletric powerplant in Fiordland (taking advantage of the height differential between a lake and the sea using tunnels, it's not a dam per-se)

When you consider New Zealand has (significantly more than) 10x the population of Iceland, if things scale proportionally, a similar smelter would consume 130% of the power of all of Iceland.

Geothermal is not going to cut it.

edit: It's also worth noting that Geothermal is a lot more efficient for home heating (through heat exchange) than raw power generation, geothermal has more potential to save power used on heating, than to generate power. Which gets back to the "it's not a grunty power source", unlike water+gravity.

[HaroTaure]

This is MYYYY country, land that I loooovvve!

[Poohoppesmase]

OMG ENDANGERED LICHENS AND MOSSES! WE MUST CLEARLY STOP EVERYTHING FOR THE LICHENS AND MOSSES!

[avarberickibe]

I assume the lake isn't going to freeze solid in your winters ?

[WepKeyday]

The entire population and companies use about 3 terwatts of power, the almunium smelter will use about 4. So significantly more than the rest of the country put together.

As someone said people rather want a "enviromentally friendly" factory here rather one powered by fossil fuels. Thats so stupid for us, a nation with europe's last remaining unspoilt wilderness, to sacrifice our wilderness for somebody else's .

About the icelandic gene pool. There is a lot of celtic blood in iceland since the first vikings took a lot of (mostly female) slaves from ireland and scotland. Its a common misunderstanding that icelanders are all blonde, blue eyed.

[km2000]

They know how to party in Reykjavik

And the women and hot and have very liberal attitudes towards sex

Iceland

[Lafclaria]

Unspoilt Wilderness...yay!

[NETvoyne]

Originally posted by Blake

edit: It's also worth noting that Geothermal is a lot more efficient for home heating (through heat exchange) than raw power generation, geothermal has more potential to save power used on heating, than to generate power. Which gets back to the "it's not a grunty power source", unlike water+gravity. Geothermal also is very capital intensive to build and maintain..........

[wmirkru]

Wait, this thread wasn't started by an Americain?