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btw, Vermin - it is not impossible to grow food in places like that. Iceland is littered with greenhouses.

Posted by Guy (aka lostatlimbo) Dec 8 '09, 11:33

but they have a massive geothermal system in place to heat them.

if you wanted to talk about improving technology to harness geothermal power - that's something worth pursuing.

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geothermal only works if you're in the right spot. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 11:36 24
- no it works everywhere just no as cheap as in Iceland - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:58
- i mean, there'll never be a solution that suits everyone - it has to be a mix of solar, water, thermal, wind, etc where applicable - Guy Dec 8, 11:38 13
  - I do think we need to stop being such babies about nuclear waste. -- nm - Reagen Dec 8, 11:40 12
    - i mostly agree. we need to be smart about it, but not cut it out of the equation (at least until we find something better) -- nm - Guy Dec 8, 11:45
    - that's actually one of the things that drives me mad about this country. 80% of power generation is coal, and everyone totally flips out if nuclear - mafic Dec 8, 11:44 10
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        Chernobyl has more to do with that IMO. (And he's talking about a different country - Australia has one reactor that is uses for scientific purposes - Roger More Dec 8, 11:50 8
        
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        Coal is cheap and abundant. People aren't used to nuclear power, so they don't understand it. - Roger More Dec 8, 11:59 2
        
        that's exactly it, really. and not so much willing to listen. - mafic Dec 8, 12:02 1
        
        Heh - I don't take it personally, especially (and if I did I wouldn't be able to riff on Canada) -- nm - Roger More Dec 8, 12:09
        
        the prospect of even exploring for uranium is controversial. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 11:51 3
        
        That's because it gets sold to nasty countries, like France. Remember the Rainbow Warrior! -- nm - Roger More Dec 8, 11:53 2
        
        heh. what's odd is that australia's actually the second largest producer of uranium in the world. - mafic Dec 8, 11:57 1
        
        Australia's just like Canada - we like to believe we only do nice things -- nm - Roger More Dec 8, 12:01
- Or if you put a power plant in that right spot and then string some wire. -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:37 6
  - power only travels so far. -- nm - Reagen Dec 8, 11:43 5
    - As far as *you* know! -- nm - Tesla Dec 8, 11:44 4
      - I hate to be the one to tell you this, but The Prestige was mostly fiction. -- nm - Reagen Dec 8, 11:49 3
        
        we'll just beam it around using satellites! actually, one of the proposed systems for a mars voyage is about beaming the energy to the rocket from an - zork Dec 8, 11:57
        
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        *zaps you with death ray* -- nm - tesla Dec 8, 11:50
- correct, but there's plenty of people around those spots and use of that power would offset their need for fuels. -- nm - Guy Dec 8, 11:36 1
  - in north america, not so many actually. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 11:40
Ooh, I like geothermal a lot too. We're sitting on trillions of tons of molten rock, and still burning organic material to stay warm??? Primitives! -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:35 2
- tectonic power! - znufrii Dec 8, 11:41
- this is why i built a series of pipes that pump molten hot lava through my home. -- nm - TFox Dec 8, 11:35
If we covered Iceland with mile high skyscrapers and everyone moved there, the world would be saved. -- nm - Loyola Dec 8, 11:34

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btw, Vermin - it is not impossible to grow food in places like that. Iceland is littered with greenhouses.

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