Re: "... there is a dearth of renewable power."
"There was talk of a 5TWh a year cable"
Big whoop. 1GW continuous is 61.3TWh per year.
There simply aren't very many high capacity underwater cables. 2GW is about where they top out.
That presentation says: "The Icelandic power system totals 2,639 MW and it ́s 100% renewable from hydro and geothermal resources" - that's 2.6GW
If you look at the presentation, they're really talking about selling surplus capacity into europe at about 0.5GW (the difference between max generation capacity and minimum demand load) when possible.
The economics of that are questionable at best for a feeder of that length.
The future is nuclear, non-pressurised and runs at 800-1100 celsius.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
