The Blue Lagoon

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It is easy to assume that this scene shows a nightmare of industrial pollution, but the Blue Lagoon is in fact an exemplar of clean energy production, a popular Icelandic tourist attraction and a health spa. The “factory” is a power plant that pumps geothermally heated seawater from a mile below the earth’s surface, uses it to generate heat and electricity, then channels the clean, mineral-rich excess water into the lagoon. Beahan and McPhee work as a team to chronicle relationships between nature and culture, people and the landscape, especially intersections that they find “lively, reciprocal, absurd, serendipitous.”

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