Icelandic City To Be Heated By Spring
* OOPENHAGEN. Work is going ahead in providing Reykjavik, • capital of Iceland, with hot water - from natural springs. Gudmunder Ashjornsson, chairman for the Municipality of Reykjavik," recently visited Copenhagen, and in' an interview with a newspaper correspondent told of a future capital city without chimneys.' Borings are being made almost 70 miles from Reykjavik for warm water. Up to the present, f our-inch pipes haye been used which give a fl9w of 32 gal-
about 194 degrees Xahrenheit, but work has now begun with eight-inch pipes. In 1932 water from the underground springs' was firs't used for .the washing of clothes, but pipes have now been laid for the heating of a hospital, school, swimming pool and 56 dwellings. It is calculated that a capital expenditure of about 1,000,000 dollars will be neeessary to enable heat to be supplied to the whole city. "Reykjavik has at present 35,000 inhabitants. lons per second, the greatest heat being 1
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 26, 23 October 1937, Page 18
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