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Elering reports only their part, the very high voltage transmission losses. Then there are the distribution losses on the local level are they're about 4%.

https://www.ceer.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/3rd-CEER-Repo...

There are also reflector pedals (see above for reliability etc)

The US doesn't have a population register in the same way as European countries do.

For reference, the Finnish voting experience is such that about a month before the election you get a card to your registered address, telling what the election is and what's your polling place. Then you show up on the day in question, show an ID, they check that against their list and off you go.

ICC was established in 2002, hardly "in the aftermath."

Average density for non-uniform objects is pretty useless, since the cubic volume scaling makes a mess of things.

As an example, I pulled the stats for an electric locomotive. 19x3x4.4 meters, mass 90 metric tonnes. That's an average density of about 1/3rd of water.

Well, Finland's gonna insist on getting Celebrini in the trade.

The main sponsor did not renew the sponsorship deal for next year, though.

NOS thinks it's individual farmers getting a bit too frisky: https://nos.nl/artikel/2631141-boerenactivisten-mogelijk-ver...

The new planned datacenters aren't near major population centers, so potential for district heating might be limited. Eyeballing from the map one of them is about has about 25 km from Oulu (pop 200k), and another is 30 km from Kajaani (30k). But that's about it.

Edit: I was wrong, the locations do have small (5-10 MW) district heating networks.

I'm going to put in a good word for the SN100C / Sn100+ / SnCuNiGe lead-free solder. It's been my go-to for the past 8 years or so, and it flows almost as nicely as leaded.

Oh for Pete's sake, Sweden. Anything to avoid building more North-South connectivity.

Sweden is currently split into four pricing areas due to lack of grid capacity. All the cheap electricity is typically in the north (hydro) and then the price creeps up when you head south.

It's too bad the live electricity flow data is offline today, but there's a common pattern where SE1 pricing area in the north sends little under 2 GW to Finland (single zone) and most of it gets exported to SE3 around Stockholm.

There's precedent, IP over Avian Carriers was tested back in 2001.

The Treedix cable tester is awesome. Ordered one after reading Terence Eden's positive review* and went through all my cables the day it arrived. My favorite was the cable with only the ground connected; went immediately into the bin.

*) https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/gadget-review-treedix-usb-c...

Xanthan is the best if you need non-toxic slime for artistic purposes (e.g. Halloween decorations).

Just make a stiff gel and hit it with a stick blender for desired consistency and lumpiness. This does introduce a lot of small air bubbles in it, so if you need clear slime let it stand for a few hours.

"valuable asset for Europe", and it's available in 5 countries. Yay.

We already have a bunch of local non-interoperable systems, so what's one more?

Sibelius was already in the last series of Finnish notes, so personally I'd pick Tove Jansson.

I'm in the EU and you absolutely can put a French building on a banknote. I'd much rather look at the Eiffel tower or the Tower of Pisa or Neuschwanstein castle than the European Court of Auditors.

Or if you like to have something modern, Paimio Sanatorium or Turning Torso.

The conjecture assumes durable goods, so it doesn't apply to medicine. Also no resale, so that narrows the scope even more.

The gist of the conjecture is that if the customers can wait out for price drops and the monopolist wants to sell their thing, then after a few rounds of "he knows that we know that..." the price ends up to be the marginal cost.

Now, real world disagrees with the model, so next steps are to examine why this happens and maybe discover some new economic interaction.

That's a bit unfair, since one of the achievements of Gustavus Adolphus was establishing governing institutions and professional bureucracy.

The bigger issue with that plan was be that the king was off fighting a war in Poland.

EU has Aisler but what you win in shipping times you lose in production lead time (unless you pay for faster service).

And there are probably others but with even less visibility / willingness to interact with private customers. Hell, I used to live next door to a sales office for a local PCB fab, but they never bothered to answer my inquiry about prototypes.

(That's another thing the proto-friendly companies do right: instant quotes without log-in requirement)

My personal experience is like getting eye glasses for your appetite. Easier to eat reasonably sized portions and they're nutritionally well-balanced.

Also the late night cravings are more specific: instead of vague "need to eat something", it's "I'd love a tomato" or "mmm yogurt" or "actually a load of carbs would hit the spot".

Got knee surgery with an epidural that leaked. The surgery itself went fine but the headache and nausea afterwards were absolutely brutal.

55 C might be enough to heat buildings but it's right on the edge where domestic hot water needs to be to kill Legionella. So traditional DH systems need to run hotter.

There low-temp/cold DH systems out there that rely on heatpumps in the buildings to extract the heat. Less losses in the network and you can even use them for cooling, but needs heat pumps everywhere.

In comparison, a traditional heat exhanger is pretty simple technology; just a hunk of metal with a valve.

Not yet, the Microsoft center is still in planning/construction.

But up north there's at least one city (Kajaani) on data center heat; details in another comment.

Nice!

Apparently the local supercomputer cluster in Kajaani has also been hooked up in 2021 and is responsible for a fifth of heating.

Microsoft's already building data centers hooked up to district heating (Espoo and Kirkkonummi, Finland). Heatpumps are amazing.

(Seasonal heat storage is also a thing, Espoo's neighbours have tens of GWh of storage, with a new 90 GWh cavern in the works. Not sure if the systems are interlinked.)

And then there are us engineers. I don't care much either way whether Maxwell's equations are ∇F = J or some other form, as long as it makes the problem easier to solve.

If I were in the GA Marketing Committee I'd publish a paper with suitably hand-picked worked examples where the vector approach is long and tedious, and GA version is short and sweet.

The electricity can flow both ways in a cable, and for example right now Denmark is exporting to most of its neighbours.

https://www.svk.se/om-kraftsystemet/kontrollrummet/ is a wonderful resource

They're not great for anything that might produce heat. Seeing a MOSFET slowly starting to imitate the Tower of Pisa after dissipating a measly 1 W for a few moments was a sight to behold.

For about two seconds before I cut the power.

Perhaps more inspired by the INTERCAL's PLEASE.