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My Project
I will write my research paper on renewable energy in Iceland. I will write about the countries use of geothermal, and hydro-electric power to fulfill all of their needs for heating and electricity. They are currently trying to make the first hydrogen based society with all of there cars and buses running off fuel cells. There is already a small section on Icelands geothermal energy use but it is pretty short and poorly put together. This is an important topic because iceland is planning on becoming the first country run completely on renewable and clean green energy. The title will be Renewable Energy in Iceland.

Related Links Model Links
 * Iceland
 * Renewable energy
 * Geothermal Power
 * Hydropower
 * Fuel Cell.
 * Renewable energy in Germany
 * Renewable energy
 * Renewable energy commercialization in Australia
 * Renewable energy in the European Union
 * Renewable energy in Portugal.


 * Thoughts from Josh. Isaac, this sounds like a good project. The challenge with an article like this will be to keep your article focused on your topic and avoid duplicating information that would be better covered elsewhere, under Renewable energy or Iceland. I like that you've found the Renewable energy in Germany and Renewable energy in Portugal articles to use as a model, but they are considerably shorter than your will be. Remember, your final article needs to be 1500-2000 words of concise encyclopedic material. Are you sure you will have information? Have you begun to look for references yet? Please format your links as lists with bullet points, just for practice. If you have any questions about your project proposal, write me a note here, and write "QUESTION FOR JOSH" in the edit summary box when you hit the "save page" button. I'll stop by later to answer. 1013-josh 21:22, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Workshop: Renewable energy in Iceland
--  howcheng  {chat} 20:14, 2 May 2007 (UTC) Workshop Guidelines

Hello Isaac I thought the article was informative. The overall use of statistics is solid. I found the fact that Iceland plans to transition into a hydrogen based society by 2005 very interesting. Finally, the fact that 99.9% of Iceland's electricity was very impressive. The article runs into NPOV issues sometimes. For instance the sentence "The project ended in August 2005 and it was a huge success" neutrality is questionable because the phrase it was a huge success isn't justified. The phrase very successful is a recurring issue. The relationship between industrial development and hyropower could use some elaboration. I understand effort to give the use of hot springs in Iceland more historical context in the phrase "For centuries, the people of Iceland have used their hot springs for bathing and washing clothes.", however the current examples could be stronger. Essentially, a hot spring is water. Bathing and washing clothes aren't very interesting uses of water. A statistic on how much imported oil costs Iceland per year would be very helpful. Finally, I am wondering how Iceland is cleaner after the to renewable energy from oil and coal, aside from reduced carbon dioxide emissions. Overall, I think the article is excellent and it needs a few minor revisions. --1013-Andrew 00:44, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi Isaac! Since I have an interest in energy myself, it was interesting to come across your work on Iceland, and to read your reasons for choosing it. From reading your project notes it looks like you've a little more work to do, so I'll look forward to seeing how it develops over the next couple of weeks. I've some questions that you might be able to answer too, if you have the time:
 * When did they achieve 100% renewable electricity?
 * If 'most' electricity comes from hydroelectric and geothermal power, where does the rest come from?
 * Are 87% or 88% of homes heated by geothermal sources (you mention both figures)?
 * What was Iceland highly polluted with? And is it possible to quantify 'cleanest in the world'? (are we talking about carbon emissions, for example, in which case this might be of use)?
 * Is there a date for 100% hydrogen, or is this just a wish?
 * What Iceland is doing is clearly very different from the rest of the world - so what were the drivers? I'm guessing that CO2 reduction wasn't one of them in 1907, for example, so the drivers are not necessarily the same as the current advantages. Perhaps the State Electricity Authority in the 1940s was connected to World War II, for example???
 * Any key dates of policy decisions taken?
 * I'm guessing that these last 2 points may be harder to answer, since the documents may be written in Icelandic - but it would be interesting to know...
 * Good luck! Gralo 00:11, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I've nominated an article you worked on, Renewable energy in Iceland, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Did you know. You can see the "hook" for the article at Template talk:Did you know where you can improve it if you see fit. 1013-josh 22:17, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey Isaac,


 * I enjoyed reading your article! I find renewable energy extremely interesting and think you have a great topic. You have a lot of great information in your article and your article is organized very well.  You have organized your article into 4 sections: introduction, Geology, Hydropower, Geothermal Power, and Hydrogen.  I think you have a really solid page, and only have one suggestion.  I am curious about what a hydrogen society is and how Iceland plans on making this transition.  Also by becoming a hydrogen society how will hydropower and geothermal power be effected...will they still be used?  If you touch on this subject you would add to your paper. Besides that I think you have a great page!

-Christi 1013-christi 22:05, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Hello Isaac,
 * I really liked your article!! I found it really good that you had a lot of numbers and facts from your sources.  It sounds like you learned a lot from researching and I also did, as a reader, learn a lot.  I liked how your article was put together like other Wikipedia articles: separated into subsections and different headings.  You also had a lot of resources and links to back up your info and send readers to other appropriate websites.  I only saw a few things that could be changed.  First, some of your statements sound like they are your opinion.  I did it on my article as well, but I put a few invisible notes in your article on where I thought these places were.  I also think you could elaborate a little more on the history behind the renewable energy and why Iceland wanted to join other countries in the renewable energy plan, if you could find that information.  All in all, I think your article was written well and sounded encyclopedic.  It is a great start!

Jessica 1013-jessica 22:14, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

An extremely interesting & engaging article, great start. Before reading this article, I hadn't known that Iceland has been so successful in converting to renewable energy. This article makes an important contribution to the body of knowledge on Wikipedia and will be a model for future "Renewable energy in X" articles. I hope you will rewrite other articles to link to this one and put all the relevant category tags on it, so that other Wikipedia editors find it. The article appears authoritative and thoroughly researched, and the information is organized well under the section headers. Have you thought about a section on Iceland's energy politics? Your article seems to imply that it's all about geology, when I'm sure that there also political factors that have made this possible. You do mention the government in the Geothermal section, but you don't really give me a sense of the political forces in play. I'm also interested to see where you're headed with the hydrogen section. I think your article would benefit from more in-text citations. The references at the end are helpful, but in a dense article like this, with many statistics, etc., it is appopriate to include more citations throughout. For example, I would expect to see a citation after the percentages in the lead section. I also think Jessica's notes about WP:NPOV are good, and you should be able to remedy those issues with a slight change in wording or footnotes. See my note to Katie about footnote format. You have the same problem with footnotes formatted as if they are bibliographic entries. Overall, this is excellent work. Keep expanding sections and adding wikilinks and citations, and you're going to have a stellar article. Any luck with images? 1013-josh 12:04, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Hey Isaac, it's Jessica. I found a resource on the web that I didn't see on your resources or footnotes list. Here's the address: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1727312.stm. Hope you can find some more info and add to your article!1013-jessica 02:44, 4 May 2007 (UTC) You're on the Main Page!

Hi Isaac, your article is currently featured on the Main Page of Wikipedia in the "Did You Know?" fact box. It will be up there for the next 6+ hours. You may get some strangers stopping by your article as a result, so check the page history. 1013-josh 18:55, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Participation: Isaac

 * added comments for revision on all group members articles

1013-Isaac 03:04, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Homework
done 1013-Isaac 04:17, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

done with The Birds (film) I edited the analysys 1013-Isaac 01:26, 18 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Good work. Remember to add a comment to the edit summary box to make it easier for other users to follow your changes. You may want to add the film page to your watchlist so you can see what becomes of your changes. 1013-josh 06:46, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

I consent 1013-Isaac 21:45, 19 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Okay, great! Let me know at any time if you change your mind and would like to switch to an off-line research assignment. 1013-josh 07:30, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

done User:1013-Isaac/draft 1013-Isaac 04:17, 23 April 2007 (UTC) For some reason the link heads right to the editing part of my draft with none of my writing there, sorry, I don't know how to fix it
 * Lowercase 'd' fixed it. Cheers. --Geniac 18:16, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Geniac. Homework looks good, Isaac. Looking forward to the full draft. Have you been able to find any print sources? (You may not need them, but they always nice to have if they exist.) 1013-josh 18:46, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Done with draft 15:14, 27 April 2007 (UTC) User:1013-Isaac/draft
 * Good work. I prepped your draft for the move, and I'll help you copy it over in class. 1013-josh 15:34, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Done, its been a great year I have enjoyed having you as a teacher and I hope you like my final paper. 1013-Isaac 06:03, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Notes from Josh & the Class
Hey, I just posted some helpful research links; don't miss them! 1013-josh 21:36, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

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