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Estonia becomes the first to open a nationwide electric vehicle charging network

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Re: Estonia becomes the first to open a nationwide electric vehicle charging network

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Post by saraid216 »

walshemj wrote: post #60
saraid216 wrote: post #41

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Off Wikipedia: "Estonia has the highest gross domestic product per person among the former Soviet republics.[10] It is listed as a "high-income economy" by the World Bank, is identified as an "advanced economy" by the International Monetary Fund, and is a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The United Nations classifies Estonia as a developed country with a very high Human Developmen…

Then why are there tons of educated Estonians moving to the UK doing the low level jobs then. And first amongst former soviet states is not exactly knocking it out of the ball park.

> Then why are there tons of educated Estonians moving to the UK doing the low level jobs then.

Better weather?

> And first amongst former soviet states is not exactly knocking it out of the ball park.

Clearly, they should be ZEROTH.

Re: Estonia becomes the first to open a nationwide electric vehicle charging network

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Post by anonymousDan »

martinhenk wrote: post #39
jkaljundi wrote: post #18

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Not in Estonia. We don't have any sun, except for few days in the summer. Wish we could produce electricity from cold, rain and darkness.

LOL! It is actually a great idea! If anyone in the world should come up with a system like that it will definitely be an Estonian for sure.

We'd buy it from you here in Ireland :)

Re: Estonia becomes the first to open a nationwide electric vehicle charging network

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Post by jk4930 »

jkaljundi wrote: post #18
mtgx wrote: post #17

Wouldn't it be great if governments everywhere created solar-based chargers like those of Tesla, with some back-up to electricity for night charging or for when all the power is used at a charger for the day, and then the whole population could buy electric cars much faster?

Not in Estonia. We don't have any sun, except for few days in the summer. Wish we could produce electricity from cold, rain and darkness.

For "rain" see [1] using the mechanical energy of falling rain drops.

For "cold" see [2] the idea of using the potential energy of snow on mountains (or hills). Maybe create artificial avalanches.

For "darkness", no idea. :)

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[1] http://phys.org/news120216714.html

[2] http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/eng99/eng99635.htm

Re: Estonia becomes the first to open a nationwide electric vehicle charging network

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Post by jkaljundi »

BHershewitz wrote: post #57
jkaljundi wrote: post #56

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Estonia has ~15000 people working in the tech sector. There are 1500 tech/IT companies, 26 of them above 100 employees. IT/Tech is ~5.8% of GDP (2010). Here is one Estonian Startups list: http://hub.garage48.org/estonian-startups - all in all, there are 100+ active startups in Estonia, which I would say for a country of 1 million people is quite a startup culture. Estonia now has I believe 7 or 8 European startup acc…

This is kind of misleading. Many of the start-ups on that list are headquartered (or host major operations) outside of Estonia; they're considered Estonian only because the founders hold Estonian nationality. You wouldn't call start-ups headquartered in the US and founded by Indians "Indian start-ups", would you?

Which ones do you mean? Most if not all of those companies have majority of the team and original entity in Estonia.

Even then, we as Estonian startup people don't care where the main legal entity is. If it's started and run by Estonians, we consider it Estonian.

Re: Estonia becomes the first to open a nationwide electric vehicle charging network

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Post by jkaljundi »

walshemj wrote: post #60
saraid216 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Off Wikipedia: "Estonia has the highest gross domestic product per person among the former Soviet republics.[10] It is listed as a "high-income economy" by the World Bank, is identified as an "advanced economy" by the International Monetary Fund, and is a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The United Nations classifies Estonia as a developed country with a very high Human Developmen…

Then why are there tons of educated Estonians moving to the UK doing the low level jobs then. And first amongst former soviet states is not exactly knocking it out of the ball park.

Not tons, but just some. In percentage terms, there are probably proportionally the least number of Estonians who have left their country to work abroad compared to most if not all Eastern European countries.

Re: Estonia becomes the first to open a nationwide electric vehicle charging network

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Post by jkaljundi »

jk4930 wrote: post #63
jkaljundi wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not in Estonia. We don't have any sun, except for few days in the summer. Wish we could produce electricity from cold, rain and darkness.

For "rain" see [1] using the mechanical energy of falling rain drops. For "cold" see [2] the idea of using the potential energy of snow on mountains (or hills). Maybe create artificial avalanches. For "darkness", no idea. :) ----- [1] http://phys.org/news120216714.html [2] http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/eng99/eng99635.htm

Crap, we don't have mountains either :D The highest point is 318 meters ASL.

Re: Estonia becomes the first to open a nationwide electric vehicle charging network

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Post by wybo »

yen223 wrote: post #54
adventured wrote: post #35

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Know what the top countries on that list have in common? I could beat the US in Internet speed if I setup a neighborhood network.

What's the average Internet speed in, say, the Bay Area?

Anecdotally it sucks. The ADSL people generally have in SF is terribly slow. Even my moms internet in the Dutch country-side, 8 miles from the nearest city, with cows for neighbors on all four sides of the house, had faster internet than that.

For the Bay Area numbers: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870395970457545...

Re: Estonia becomes the first to open a nationwide electric vehicle charging network

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Post by walshemj »

saraid216 wrote: post #61
walshemj wrote: post #60

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Then why are there tons of educated Estonians moving to the UK doing the low level jobs then. And first amongst former soviet states is not exactly knocking it out of the ball park.

> Then why are there tons of educated Estonians moving to the UK doing the low level jobs then. Better weather? > And first amongst former soviet states is not exactly knocking it out of the ball park. Clearly, they should be ZEROTH.

well compared to Seattle anywheres weather is better :-)
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