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It is incorrect in English to say, "the average flow is 100-180". An "average" is a single number, not a range. You can say, "the flow varies between a low of 100 and a high of 180", but that is not what this aritcle meant since it gives 2000 as the all-time high.
So I changed the article to correctly reflect the average by assuming it was the number half-way between the two given.
Nick Beeson 15:42, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
The article stated that the crevice was 35m deep which is 115 ft, not 105 as previously stated. [1] states that it is 32m, along with a booklet from the waterfall site itself
Chris, 22:41, 16th September 2006 (UTC)
The article states that Tómas Tómasson and Sigríður Tómasdóttir (which was his daughter) saved the waterfall from being "commercially exploited". According to my sources, which is an article newly published in Skírnir, this is not true but a common belief. [2]
According to the article, Tómas actually rented the waterfall to some businessman, which re-rented it to some other man which intended to activate the waterfall. Sigríður apparantly did not like her father's intentions - and later tried to stop the waterfall from being activated. She did not succeed, there where other things which caused all attempts to halt.
This must be fixed, and all the translations must also be fixed.
If I end up fixing this, then at least this has been discussed.
P.S.: and if you wonder why the daughter and her father did not aggree (which is extremely normal), then you also might wonder why Sigríður and Einar Guðmundsson (which was the stepson of Tómas, which bought Sigríður's share of the waterfall when Sigríður got older) did not aggree on if the waterfall should be sold to the state (!). The article does not state anything on this issue, probably because there are no sources of information regarding this issue.
-- -G. 00:23, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm sorry I have to ask a (silly?) question here, but what does "activation" in connection with Gullfoss mean? How do you "activate a waterfall"? I mean, it is already active :)
Perhaps this is a translation problem, but I see no sense in those paragraphs. I think Sigríður Tómasdóttir didn't "activate" Gullfoss, she rescued, saved, conserved it, prevented it from destruction, whatever. -- Wirthi 14:31, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
The reason Gullfoss wasn´t harnessed at the time is most probably because nitrogen fertilizer became much cheaper at the time following new inventions in the making process, so it wasn´t economically feasible any more to build the power plant. The plans for power plants in Iceland in the beginning of the 20th century were all more or less intended to produce fertilizer. This of course was difficult in Iceland as transport to Europe was expensive and none of the plants or factories were built. 157.157.127.174 ( talk) 19:31, 29 September 2009 (UTC)Þorvaldur Sigurðsson
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