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.
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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:
Hi, I've nominated an article you worked on, Renewable energy in Iceland, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the "hook" for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created on April 27 where you can improve it if you see fit. 1013-josh 22:17, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey Isaac,
-Christi 1013-christi 22:05, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello Isaac,
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)
1013-Isaac 03:04, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
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)
I consent 1013-Isaac 21:45, 19 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
Done with draft 15:14, 27 April 2007 (UTC) User:1013-Isaac/draft
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)
Hey, I just posted some helpful research links; don't miss them! 1013-josh 21:36, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
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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.
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howcheng {
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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:
Hi, I've nominated an article you worked on, Renewable energy in Iceland, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the "hook" for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created on April 27 where you can improve it if you see fit. 1013-josh 22:17, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey Isaac,
-Christi 1013-christi 22:05, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello Isaac,
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)
1013-Isaac 03:04, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
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)
I consent 1013-Isaac 21:45, 19 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
Done with draft 15:14, 27 April 2007 (UTC) User:1013-Isaac/draft
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)
Hey, I just posted some helpful research links; don't miss them! 1013-josh 21:36, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedians, if you're commenting specifically about the Renewable energy in Iceland article, feel free to chime in in the "Workshop" section above.
Hello, 1013-Isaac, and
welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for
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