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Skúlason 13 (1:16)
Topic(s): Biofuels / Environment / Iceland /
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You cannot take a case like Iceland and just transport it to a
different country like the US- it's- there's too big of a
difference. However, the learning can be transported. But I
think what's important for the US is that you can use your own
feed stock energy to produce your own energy. For example,
I've heard that the so-called wind corridor, which is Idaho,
South and North Dakota, Minnesota and some other states around
there, if you just utilize the wind there, you can produce
enough hydrogen to power every car in the US. So that's just
wind energy from a couple of states in the US.
You have quite a bit of resources like natural gas, which is
larger than your fossil fuels or gasoline reserves; you can
reform that into hydrogen. You have a lot of solar power in
the south that could all be converted into renewable power and
hydrogen.
The problem today is that renewable power is still more
expensive in most countries then conventional fossil fuels.
This will change. One day solar power will have the same cost
price, or wind power, as you have for fossil fuels. When that
is, I'm quite convinced that the US has no problems in getting
all their renewable power they need to create self-sustaining
renewable society in the future.
In Iceland we can do it directly, immediately. It will take
countries like the US a longer period of time.
