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In Iceland, 100% of the electricity and heating comes from hydroelectric and geothermal. Clean energy cheap and plentiful so that Icelanders are inviting island energy-intensive industries, such as information technology.
If oil, as many fear, we will leave the nation in the world who will suffer will be less to read an interesting report the Guardian, the cold Iceland. There, accomplices particular climatic and soil conditions, 100% of the needs of electricity and heating is now already met with renewable sources. The rivers that descend from the glaciers of the island for 80% of electricity, while the remaining 20% \u200b\u200bcomes from geothermal power plants.

addition to providing electricity, geothermal heat and hot water supplies for 90% of homes in the country: energy savings comparable to 646mila tonnes of oil and, according to the Icelandic government, means avoiding spend 100 million dollars a year in fossil fuels that should be imported. The country of the North Atlantic, also is doing research to obtain, using the wide electricity from renewables, hydrogen can power the large fleet of vehicles and boats. But he adds an option to vehicles powered directly by electricity from renewable sources should be considered, if only for the greater energy yield. If the plan proves successful in a few years Iceland's truly 100% carbon free, when, in fact, Icelanders are among the Europeans with more emissions per head: the fault of the poor population (just over 300 thousand) and means of transport, especially the many merchant peschercci and still work in oil derivatives.

lucky that experience that counts on Icelandic conditions geological and geographical, but is also relatively recent geothermal energy in the country has begun to exploit the early '40s, but it is only with the oil crisis of the 70s that the country has changed its energy policy: before then 75% of energy, notes the Guardian journalist Jessica Aldren was obtained from fossil fuels. According to geologists the potential of the country in terms of renewable resources are even greater: the Icelandic National Energy Authority estimates that only 20-25% technically and environmentally feasible hydropower has been harnessed so far and that only 20 % of the geothermal potential is exploited. The energy sector in Iceland is expanding and the country exports around the world know-how for these technologies. In the coming years, says the Guardian, are scheduled for 5-6 new hydroelectric power plants and electricity from geothermal energy is expected to double by 2010.

But do (in addition to the experimental hydrogen) with all this cheap and clean energy, however, that Iceland, because of its geographical position, can not export? If energy can not be brought in the rest of the world leading industries in Iceland who want clean, affordable energy, seems to be the reasoning of the Icelandic government, which cut taxes for 15% of the company and is committed to lay new undersea cables to transmit data at high speed towards Europe and America. Among the guests at the banquet of the clean energy sector the Icelandic information technology, large energy-server: it is the recent announcement of a partnership between the big Hitachi Data Systems and Data Islandia to keep the enormous amount of data in a multinational structure powered by a 100% renewable.