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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do countries in Scandinavia deal with it?  They get pretty cold weather in the winter.  Do they lose power every winter when it's freezing?
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Different answer for each country but basically boils down to hydro and to a lesser extent nuclear. [/quote]

My college kid is a geosciences major who does research in hydro (and volcanos and earthquakes). Loves Iceland, which is an amazing country. And Iceland to a large extent and Scandinavia to a lesser one are well situated for hydro. (So is part of the US). But, it’s like oil. [b]You can’t just drill any old place and boom!  You need a geographically unstable area, which often (usually) means earthquakes and volcanos).[/b] Hawaii makes great use of geothermal for that reason.  It can also make geothermal in AP stable.  Because extraction uses chemicals that react badly to volcanic eruptions (to out it mildly).  My kids research is actually is more stable/ safer methods of employing geothermal.  But, you still need the pressurized buildup of water.

See— I listen when we talks.  :D [/quote]
For big, commercial level, yes. Homes can get geothermal power anywhere; one of my mother’s friends retrofitted her home in the stable Midwest with geothermal. [/quote]

Yep. It’s very cool technology (in a I am a humanities major with a STEM kid, but parenting young adults means meeting them where they are and talking about their interests sort of way). We visited Iceland  a few years ago and bang, something clicked with my kid and he found his passion.  It’s very untapped tech because of what happened in Hawaii when the volcano erupted a couple years ago.  They were very close to a massive explosion as they tried to drain explosive chemicals before lava can get there.  And geothermal by definition exists mainly in gEologically unstable areas.  My kid thinks it can be done without the explosive chemical piece.  And it’s kind of cool he’s might be one of the people to make it happen.  [/quote]

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