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Mr. Magnason is an Icelandic writer and filmmaker; he wrote from Reykjavik. Ms. Hallgrímsdóttir is an Icelandic photographer.

TNO estimates that depleted gas fields beneath the North Sea offer sufficient storage capacity for several decades.