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Comment #47749943
I think the amount of energy needed during wintertime would be difficult to cover with pumped storage or traditional batteries. You have to have suitable geography for pumped stora…
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Comment #47688777
How about video of it?
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Comment #43422477
Strange as I have never heard that you would have to show your ID when buying a prepaid sim card in Finland. And I have also bought them several times and I think that I have somet…
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Comment #43100835
I have also noticed that for some reason hot showers and also shoulder and head massage help seem to help a lot, but only about as long as I am in the shower or have the massage. A…
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Comment #42539187
I found a video that has lot of information about the cable severing ship: Tanker Eagle S Seized by Finland for Severing Cables Between Finland & Estonia | Is it a Spy Ship? https:…
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Comment #42534296
I think it had helicopter pad, a harbor for relatively large ships etc. I think Russia had planned to use it as a place to land troops or "green men" during war as spying could hap…
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Comment #42534237
First two sabotages were done by Chinese ships (which may have had russians on the board). This one was registered to Cook Islands.
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Comment #42530264
Is the exact positions public info or is it just crude positions? BTW, if the exact cable positions is public info, where is it available?
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Comment #42529825
It seems that Putin thinks Russia is able to take Belarusia by coercion: Putin’s plan for a new Russian Empire includes both Ukraine and Belarus https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blo…
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Comment #42529520
I don't think it was incompetent attempts to attach something to the lines. It severed 4 data data cables and electricity cable called Estlink 2. If it hadn't been stopped, it woul…
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Comment #42074756
As far as I know, they still need classical encryption methods (with something like shared secret key or public key for authentication) to detect active man in the middle attacks w…
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Comment #38911328
In the Greek wiretapping case, which has been linked to the US Embassy, there was a suspicious suicide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004%E2...
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Comment #38911288
If it was assasination, who did it as it happened so soon afterwards? I would assume that it took long time for Iran to find out the Stuxnet.
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Comment #34184681
In Finland defamation doesn't (always) require falsehood either and I think the same is true in Sweden as well. However, you are much more likely to get a conviction if the stateme…
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Comment #34051268
As a non-native English speaker I find this kind of efforts to outlaw some words in English language and replace them with others hostile to non-native English speakers. Speaking E…
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Comment #32815300
It sounds very odd to ask about these kind of things during employment. How often do for example LGBT persons provide this kind information in their job application and is it even …
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Comment #32814956
How do the HR people even know that if some team members are LGBT? I am a gay and I think it is my private matter and not something I would be interested sharing with for example m…
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Comment #32813620
7 hours of storage might work in a country like Australia, but not necessarily in some other countries. For example, in Finland winter is several months long and during that time P…
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Comment #32797572
Using electricity for heating is relatively easy. There is no need to use gas for heating and in many countries heating is done mostly without gas.
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Comment #32614198
I am not familiar with the winder conditions in Southern Europe. Is there enough sunlight during winter that it would be feasible to provide a lot of solar energy during wintertime…
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Comment #32614096
Green party managed to stop the process of getting new reactors many times with different political tricks. And when they finally reluctantly agreed to build more nuclear energy, t…
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Comment #32614027
Perhaps in theory, although transmission losses would be large. But I wouldn't want to be on the mercy of distant countries, perhaps on different continent, for getting energy, esp…
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Comment #32613928
Have you solved the problem of intermittent power production by solar and wind energy and included the costs of it to the calculation? It seems to me that the solar and wind energy…
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Comment #32613778
Most of the electricity in Finland is not produced by using fossil fuels. For example during year 2020 14 % of the electricity in Finland was produced by fossil fuels.
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Comment #32613731
At least battery storage seems to be unrealistic solution. The needed amount of energy storage for several months is enormous and in addition to that problem, batteries tend to sel…