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lThey think that Ireland's geothermal and hydroelectric potentials has THE potential to power the top half hemisphere of the earth.
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Huh? Ireland has geothermal potential? Sure you don't mean Iceland? And of course the problem with using their geothermal to power anyplace off the island is the couple thousand miles of undersea power transmission line that'd be needed.
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But they're not sure. what if hawaii went in on it too? and my birthplace in the Philippines? how bout any place with magmatic activity?
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Phillipines maybe could work too. They've got the volcanic activity, at least on some of the islands. I think the problem would be the greater distances. After all, on most of the Hawaiian Islands (and a lot of Carribean islands, too), it's pretty hard to drive more than 50 miles or so without going around in circles, while IIRC the bigger islands of the Phillipines are closer to the size of the Japanese main islands.