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Skúlason 12 (1:13)
Topic(s): Government / Hydrogen / Iceland
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Iceland is very open to new technology and very open to
change. We're a very, very young, developed society; we only
started becoming a developed nation after the second World
War. We're talking about 60 years of development from being
quite poor—one of the poorest countries in
Europe—to becoming one of the richest and people are
very kind of open-minded to new technologies. And often when
new technology comes out in Iceland I would assume that you
would like—you should test it in Iceland because if the
Icelanders don't like it, it's never going to work in the
world.
So in a sense, we're very open-minded to change, we're very
open-minded to new technologies, and I think people are also
celebrating that we have all of those resources in Iceland and
people want to utilize them for our economic gain and that's
one of the things people see with hydrogen. It can create new
jobs, will have- most people are convinced it will have
positive economic impact, we're using domestic energy, we do
not have to spend all our foreign currency on importing oil,
so it has a lot of positive images and, to be able to do a
change like that, we have to take some risks, we have to be
willing to spend some money, to go through the learning steps,
and I think the public is quite well willing to do that.
