Icelandic Geothermal Energy
Iceland’s largest energy company is considering selling its vast geothermal and volcanic energy to the European market. By the end of this year, the Iceland energy company, Landsvirkjun, will complete a study of building a sub-sea cable that could deliver as much as five terawatt-hours annually to Europe, enough electricity to power 1.25 million homes. Geothermal energy comes from the earth, and is also renewable. Iceland’s geothermal power is cost effective; it could save millions of dollars. This form of energy is also environmentally friendly; it could replace current energy sources that put thousands of tons of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere. Eliminating some of these greenhouse gases is a big step towards an eco-friendly world. I believe that using geothermal energy is a great idea. It saves people lots of money and is clearly a better alternative source of energy than the majority of current energy sources. Hopefully in the future more energy companies will use geothermal energy.
http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/42439
After reading this I think geothermal is a great source of renewable energy. If producing geothermal energy is efficient and affordable, why do we not use it more. I'd like to know the down side to geothermal energy. For example construction of geothermal energy plants may be really expensive. Either way it seems like producing and using geothermal energy may play a significate role in the energy future of the US. Lastly, I would like to say that the picture above is really huge.
ReplyDeleteLooks like in this picture that this can cause a good bit of pollution. But I think there is more good to this than bad. Like Andrew said, if it is efficient and affordable, why don't we use it more?
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