Vikingsson on August 22nd, 2007

You wouldn’t live on top of or right next to this smokestack would you? During the morning coffee do you listen to the weather report and perhaps what the day’s pollution level will be? Don’t you hate those days when the level is high? Ever wonder what the source of that pollution [...]

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Vikingsson on August 12th, 2007

Hats off to Germany for attempting something brave, building geothermal power and heat plants instead of coal, gas, or nuclear plants. The initial cost is much higher than the old style plant but in the long run the payoff is much greater. Thinking beyond your term in office is such a rare [...]

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Vikingsson on August 8th, 2007

Instead of discouraging car traffic with super high costs and smog causing traffic patterns how about encouraging the use of eco friendly cars.  In Reykjavík there is a new initiative that allows free parking for vehicles that consume less than 5 liters of fuel per 100 km (47 mpg).  It has already proved to be [...]

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Vikingsson on May 9th, 2007

This is one of the coolest ideas I’ve heard in a long time. Generate electricity with natural geo steam, extract hydrogen from pure water, feed a hydrogen engine that replaces a very large oil burning engine, on an eco cruise ship. I like this one.
Link to the original story: www.icelandreview.com hydrogen engine story.
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