{"id":182121,"date":"2019-10-01T10:08:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T10:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandictimes.com\/the-icelandic-geothermal-model-is-changing-china\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T03:36:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T03:36:14","slug":"the-icelandic-geothermal-model-is-changing-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandictimes.com\/is\/the-icelandic-geothermal-model-is-changing-china\/","title":{"rendered":"The Icelandic geothermal model is changing China"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Arctic Green Energy\u2019s joint venture with China\u2019s Sinopec has become the world\u2019s largest and fastest growing geothermal district heating company which is revolutionising China at time of Global Warming<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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In 1930 the people of Reykjav\u00edk \u2013 \u2018Smokey Bay\u2019 \u2013 began to use hot water coming from the ground to heat their houses. The tiny capital was given its name when the first settlers saw the steam rising from hot springs. Coal burning pollution had become a massive problem, so the locals were turning to the hot water to heat houses. Iceland was poor and isolated out at the furthest point in the North Atlantic. In the mid-thirties, Austurb\u00e6jarsk\u00f3li, an elementary school in Reykjav\u00edk, became the first building to be heated with geothermal energy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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In August 1941 during World War II, Winston Churchill visited Iceland after meeting President Roosevelt to sign the Atlantic Treaty. During his visit to Iceland, Churchill put up the V-sign for victory for the first time. At that point, the Nazis ruled Europe, bombing London and English cities, while Japan ruled Asia and occupied China.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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\"Churchill<\/a><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The prospects were grim but changes were coming. Churchill marvelled at the locals\u2019 use of hot water which, he believed, was a sign for the future. He visited Reykjadal \u2013 Smokey Valley \u2013 to the East of the capital where they were drilling for hot water. It was only natural to tap into it. The locals use had been limited basically to swimming in warm water pools and the women washing their laundry in the warm water around the country. That had been about it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

As houses were heated with the hot water, Reykjav\u00edk became the cleanest capital of the World. Little did they know that their drilling would springboard Iceland to the top of the world of geothermal energy. It would take time but slowly and surely the tiny nation progressed, though the road was quite bumpy at times.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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