NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION: THE DAWN OF DOMESTIC GEOTHERMAL TURBINE REPAIRS IN ICELAND

• Main Authors: Proceedings Asme, Power Conference, Reynir S. Atlason, Almar Gunnarsson, Runar Unnthorsson
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Labyrinth; Nesjavellir; Iceland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.654.5055; http://proceedings.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/pdfaccess.ashx?PDFSource%3D13%26ResourceID%3D7983230

Even though the Icelandic public relies greatly on geothermal power, to date, intensive maintenance procedures on the geothermal turbines have been conducted by foreign contractors. Such repairs are very time consuming, risky, expensive and leak capital out of the country. This has been discussed gr...