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Re:Nasa’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano by njarboe on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @02:21AM (#15599159)
Iceland has some large aluminum smelters and aluminum is 40% of their export income[1]. They do heat their homes with geothermal. It's basically free and when I was there the lowest setting for the heat in my apartment was 22.4C (72F).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Iceland

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Re:Nasa’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano by lostlogin on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @03:54AM (#15599481)
Interesting link. 800,000 mtpy is a lot of aluminium. While the ‘zero environmental imapct’ claim is controversial, the environment impact is definitely lower than many other producers.
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