ICELAND'S ABUNDANCE OF ENERGY

摘要

"We see Iceland as the worlds laboratory for a decarbonized future," says Ingibjorg Solrun Gis-ladottir, the country's foreign minister and former mayor of Reykjavik. Of course, many countries say similar things, but Iceland has a head start, because it's partly decarbonized already. Some 85 percent of Iceland's homes are heated with geot-hermal energy, which also produces 18 percent of the country's electricity. The rest is emission-free hydroelectric power from the many dams on Iceland's free-flowing rivers.