NO FUEL SHORTAGE
PEOPLE IN ICELAND
The people of Reykjavik, Iceland, should have no fuel shortage this winter, for they use volcanic heat from subterraneon lires. Natural hot springs bubble water to the surface and, the farmers pipe it in to v. arm their houses and also lor laundry purposes. Farmers use the water to inaintain an even temperature; to hothouses, so that they may -raise flowers and vegetables all the year round. They also irrigate their fields with it. Since the water just a little below boiling point is the most, in dc*maiul, engineers have tapped as much as three-quarters of a mile below the surface with artesian wells to find it at this temperature.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 40, 14 January 1944, Page 3
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116NO FUEL SHORTAGE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 40, 14 January 1944, Page 3
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