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

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Having read the item on micro-hydro in today’s epistle, I feel I have just read a much more relevant contribution than this mega-project description. Diversity in small sources will give us great resilience, and if micro-hydro can work, why not micro thermal. Not hot rocks, but forestry thinnings. Every hedge in the land seems to have been strimmed and scattered across the byways of the nation, but a bit of collection and recovery could put this "waste" to good use, along with crop residues, stable waste and all the other high calorie side streams, including genuine forestry by-products.

Posted date

23 Apr 2012

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1:36 pm

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