Iceland to wean itself off of fossil fuel

Jordan Hayes jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com
Thu May 30 22:22:12 PDT 2002



> if Iceland were the first to choose a winning standard, it would be
> very well rewarded.

Don't forget, we're talking about a country that's about the size of Kentucky and has about 275,000 people (1/4 of Manhattan?) (more than 150,000 of them are Internet users, making Iceland the most wired country on the planet per-capita). Getting the majority of them to do any one thing has to be easy.

But: they do have 87 airports (12 paved), and Iceland Air has 12 jets in service! And no railways. Only 0.07% of the electricity they use is generated by fosil fuel.

However, they are a US Military Protectorate.

/jordan



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