DU: Beware the Hydrogen Economy Lies being pushed by the Fossil Fuel industry.

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9. People have looked at it

It's not going to make much of a dent in the global picture. The UK are also interested in developing a HVDC transmission line simply to use the electricity (rather than throwing energy away in electrolysis and fuel cell energy transformation losses).

One estimate of the amount by which Iceland could expand geothermal is about a factor of 5-8 above what they currently generate.

"It's been estimated that by conventional use of geothermal, the available power in Iceland could be on the order of 20 to 30 terawatt-hours per year," says Ólafur Flóvez, general director of ÍSOR, or Iceland Geosurvey, the governmental institution that employs roughly 100 geologists to conduct research on geothermal resources. "Currently we're producing maybe four terawatt-hours per year."

That won't go very far in fueling our worldwide transportation demand.