Iceland – the world leader in renewable energy
In the field of renewable energy, Iceland is one of the world. At present, renewable or green energy sources provide 72% of its electricity needs. And Iceland is one of the few countries with plans to completely familiarize fossil fuels in the near future.
Iceland this energy comes from two main sources of renewable energy, geothermal and hydropower. Currently, the country about 26% of its needs from geothermal power and the restIts numerous hydroelectric plants. The country has several power plants, both types of country, and plans for the development of two geothermal plants in 2010.
Certainly, one could argue that energy supply to a population of about 300,000 is a lot easier than 300,000,000, as in the United States. And Iceland from these sources must be developed because it has a couple of other natural resources. This is particularly true in the early stages of Iceland Industrialdevelopment. The fact that the wrong impression of the current commitment and growth of the country for environmental quality and sustainability. Yes, but came to this place may be a mute point, the fact is that she is currently one of the leading countries in using renewable energy sources, and can not get much for the world to teach. Iceland is a country that has leap-frogged from relative obscurity to international prominence in the field of renewable energy technologies. In many ways, the country is smallminimum size and industrial development in comparison with other developed countries has become a commodity, to leave the country, more agile and less dogmatically devoted to an infrastructure based on consumption of fossil fuels.
Recently, a local engineering firm, and a Californian company Mannvit technology called Carbon Recycling International, began developing the first geothermal plant in the world liquid fuel. The plant will have capacity to produce 4.5 millionliters per year of methanol in the engine fuel mix for general consumption.
So many people know, most homes and businesses in Iceland are heated with hot water, intentionally produced many of the geothermal plants. This very hot water pipes in all major cities, including Reykjavik and Akureyri, and some of the most rural imaginable. Yes, long before the country was producing electricity from geothermal plants, washeating homes. This is obviously an important source of energy for a cold climate, and one of the main reasons why Iceland is such an excellent air quality because they have to burn fossil fuels for heating for most of the population in many many decades.
Iceland is a true innovator in the field of geothermal energy. In a recent draft note has been the development and construction of the world's first geothermal power plant with the Kalinatechnology. This innovation is to draw interest from countries around the world who want to develop new geothermal power plants use the latest technology that is capable of generating much more energy from geothermal fields at low temperature.
One of the last part of the energy that Iceland intends to combat the use of gasoline and here is the land of the plans for the familiarization of petrol was driven around2020, through the use of hydrogen as a fuel only for all cars, trucks, buses and fishing boats.
I am convinced that we will hear much more from this small island nation, just below the Arctic Circle in the coming years and hope that many developed and developing countries begin to follow their example and head forward of the other countries way of thinking.
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