Iceland sets sights on clean power line
Omar Valdimarsson
REYKJAVIK: Europeans left stranded at airports last year as an Icelandic volcano spewed ash across the continent may soon benefit from the power that seethes beneath the remote North Atlantic island.
Iceland is doing a feasibility study into building a 1170 kilometre power cable to Scotland to transport up to 18 terawatt-hours of geothermal and hydro power a year – enough to fuel 5 million European homes.
…In about 20 years, Iceland’s energy revenue per capita may rival that in Norway, where oil income has made its $US540 billion sovereign wealth fund the world’s second-biggest. Read the rest
With guts and determination, we can do the same for Hawai‘i.
Ku‘oko‘a is planning to finance a cable that will carry geothermal electricity from the Big Island at no cost to the taxpayers. Iceland to Scotland is a distance of 725 miles, whereas it’s only 200 miles or so from the Big Island to O‘ahu.
From the Ku’oko’a website:
We are embarking on a great journey, much like the ancient people who sailed to Hawai‘i hundreds of years ago. Like them, we are searching for a better tomorrow for our children, grandchildren and generations to come. We will find the place where the Aloha Spirit can thrive because we go with open hearts and minds.