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> What other economic activities would be a good fit for an educated population willing to take risks?

Solving the engineering challenges on sub-sea high voltage DC power transmission would be a worthy goal. Iceland has vast geothermal power reserves. CO2 permit trading would be a nice complimentary business, though I suspect it could get a little out of hand...



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