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Iceland's volcanoes could power the UK: but at what cost?

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The comments on this article have taken my thoughts back once more to stories of the Second World War. It was said that London was able to survive the blitz because it had a huge diversity of power generation sites (300 separate centres?) It strikes me that we should be increasing diversity once more rather than continuing to concentrate the power supply into fewer and fewer channels. The article points to three, or was it 10? Even at 10 or 11, any failure would have an awful lot of us sitting in the cold and dark.

Posted date

16 Apr 2012

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7:12 pm

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