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Svartsengi power plant is located on the Reykjanes peninsula. It currently produces 76.5 MW of electricity, and about 475 liters/second of 90 °C hot water. Surplus mineral rich water from the plant fills up a nearby lake and popular tourist bathing resort Bláa Lónið (Blue Lagoon), which we visited in the evening.
After the visit we went for a trip around peninsula. This photos are taken on the far south-west end, near Reykjanes.
Take a wild guess what is this white stuff on the rock ;)
Next stop was a High School in Keflavik, in which father of Arnbjörn works as a headmaster. As I'm computer engineer, I took a closer look on the computers they had there. And well, for a High School it's not bad ;)
Server room.
All students can use laptop computers.
On the classes of technology, one group of students had to construct a fuel cell remote controlled car. I wish we had this kind of exercises in schools in Poland...
We also visited Arnbjörn's mother studio - she's a painter :)
In the evening we went to Blue Lagoon - one of the most known tourist attractions in this area. Blue Lagoon was actually an environmental disaster. It was made of the waste water from nearby geothermal power plant, which was supposed to soak down into the ground, but instead, it stayed on the top. As people were coming more and more to this "artificial lake", some business men thought of creating a spa resort here with swimming pool and clinic. They now even produce their own line of cosmetics and some pharmaceutics.
In the night (of course it wasn't dark) we went to Reykjavik with a group of guys to have some fun :).
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