Talk:Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Project
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I cut the following from the main text because it was uncited - putting it here is better than a citation needed stamp.
- Numerous studies, even ones conducted by the government of Iceland, have shown that the dam will probably not be a profitable project, as everything but the energy has to be imported by ship.
If you can prove this, put it back in. Tyrhinis 22:37, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- I follow the debate in Iceland quite closely and I have never heard this argument before. Also it does not make any sense. The raw material for aluminium production is bauxite which is mined in S-America, Africa and Australia, shipping it to Iceland is hardly more expensive than to any other country in Europe or N-America. It is true that the dam is criticised heavily from the point of economics but that revolves around the dam itself, not the smelter. These two are entirely separate ventures although each one depends totally on the other. Alcoa is not a charity and would not being doing this unless it expected to make a profit. Landsvirkjun however is a government owned company that obviously does make it somewhat suspicious regarding possible political influences in its decisionmaking. Economists have different opinions on Landsvirkjun's profitability study for the project and some doubt that it can make a profit. Meaning basically that Landsvirkjun may be selling the electricity too cheaply considering the investment put into this, but of course they deny this and nobody can know for sure because the negotiated electricity price with Alcoa is confidential... --Bjarki 00:49, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Shurely shome mishtake... Landsvirkjun wouldn't build the plant solely to power the smelter, would they? Is the only purpose of the massive dam project to provide energy to one aluminium refinery? 82.109.186.194 08:53, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- The plant does connect to the existing electricity grid, but the smelter uses all of the 690 MW. --Bjarki 09:30, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Power plants devoted to powering aluminum smelters are not that rare in Iceland. Pési 19:24, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
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