I totally fell in love with this view and simply had to stop the car and take a picture of it. This was on our way home from summer vacation, about 1/3 of the way across the mountains. I took a few landscape pics of fjords and such on this trip, but personally I think this one came out best. The half-dry bits of lake i the foreground is called Kjelavatn.

Location is 59°48'23.74"N 7°13'34.85"E, south-west direction.

This is a water reservoir, used to make hydroelectric power. One of the easiest ways to spot this is by noticing the water line, and the dry gray rocky layer below the green grassy one. It's pretty low at the moment, promising astronomical prices on electricity this upcoming winter.

Being a member of the European electricity market, Norwegian power companies will produce huge amounts of electricity while water supplies are abundant, and sell cheaply to other European countries, spending 90% or more of the available water this way. Later, when water levels are low, they won't be able to afford the same production rate, so they'll import expensive coal or nuclear power generated electricity for our industry and private households, at sky-high prices. That's taking care of your own for ya.

Note: The BusyThumbs censor system has forced me to misspell a few words to avoid -bleep- in my post. The words this time are Eur0pean (E·u·r·o·p·e·a·n) and ch3aply (c·h·e·a·p·l·y).

Edit: After a quick word with the management, I can now use European and cheaply in the normal straightforward manner :)

Tags: kjelavatn, landscape, mountains, vacation.

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næ! her og?? — dthprod, 25/08/2006 15:49

Nesten overalt etterhvert ;) — inshadowz, 27/08/2006 11:55

I didn't know that BusyThumbs had an English word filter. — Abraxias, 08/09/2006 14:34

Abraxias: I've thought about suggesting automatic subtitles for the Norwegian-impaired ;) — inshadowz, 09/09/2006 23:03

They have a filter. Just look at the title of my blog. "I'm a -bleep-ed up dancer..." 's kinda annoying — dthprod, 26/09/2006 06:03