Believe it or not: Icelandic geothermal to power European cars

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Think “byproduct” and “methanol.” A Reykjavik group strikes a deal with a Dutch oil company.

Journey to the center of your internal combustion engine. Jules Verne sent his famous earthly travelers down through an Icelandic volcano. The island's geological forces will soon find their way into European cars.

Iceland is known for geothermal power. Hot earth generates a quarter of the country’s electricity and provides heating to homes, offices and swimming pools.

Now, some of that roiling, boiling energy source will end up in European cars and make them more fuel efficient, thanks to a deal struck by Reykjavik’s Carbon Recycling International (CRI) and Dutch oil company Argos.

CRI will provide methanol that Argos will add into gasoline, CRI announced on its website. Methanol-gasoline blends are known to enhance mileage.

But this isn’t typical methanol. CRI, as I’ve reported, is producing methanol from the carbon dioxide emitted from Iceland’s HS Orka, one of many geothermal plants in the North Atlantic island nation

CRI refers to its product as “renewable methanol” precisely because it captures CO2 that would otherwise escape to the atmosphere and contribute to global warming.

It seems that some of that CO2 would eventually find its way out (chemists or others, feel free to elaborate below!).

Or certainly, the methanol-enhanced internal combustion engines would still pump CO2. When I interviewed CRI CEO K.C. Tran back in 2011 (deals like Argos have been in the works for a while) he told me that the overall benefit is that renewable methanol as a fuel additive could reduce vehicles’ CO2 emissions by 30 percent. The reduction could be greater once regulators increase the permissible maximum mix of fuel additives, which today is around 5 percent in the European Union.

http://m.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/believe-it-or-not-icelandic-geothermal-to-power-european-cars/12652

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So you still have not acquired the ability to form a sentence by yourself.

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So you still have not acquired the ability to form a sentence by yourself.

he went to public schools

[one...two...tree 2,762]

So you still have not acquired the ability to form a sentence by yourself.

schoolyard bullies beat it out of me.

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he went to public schools

Union teachers. What do you expect?

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Union teachers. What do you expect?

i had my share of nuns with their commie leaning, social justice agenda. sister diana's bowl cut and permanent scowl was enough to scare the capitalist out of anyone.

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schoolyard bullies beat it out of me.

Excellent. You're a victim. Anyone who would expect you to have a message on a message board is a bully. You know, actually discuss something on a discussion board.

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