It used to be the case that the single largest industrial energy use of Finland was drying paper in the many vast paper mills. First it was gas burners, then infrared heaters. The mills are mostly gone now, but many now are filled with server racks as data centres, which are still energy intensive.
The only bad thing about nuclear is that as the plants are so far from cities, the hot water produced can’t be used for heating homes.
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Interestingly, the electricity is more expensive today tho 😆
Will the prices drop though?
…and it will be shut down by another unexpected fault for maintance before tomorrow noon…
Hell yeah! It’s the best one ever! Now they need to start building another one.
As a Finn I’ll make sure to get all my news from Bangkok post from now on.
Germany on suicide watch
Ironic that it went online in Finland the same week Germany took their last nuclear plant offline
Why tf is my spot price 11c right now?
Gotdang energy companies still gotta max out their profits.
Right on time too
They said it was ahead of schedule too.
I guess 14 years late isn’t a biggie as long as it’s the right day of the week.
Probably the cleanest power source there is. It’s very important to develop and expand nuclear power in face of climate change. Something morons in Germany does not seem to understand.
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Curious- despite all the doom and gloom predictions, you still made it through the winter even without the reactor. What went right?
What a beauty!
Sure is nice that the people in Bangkok let us know about this
I love that you use “bangkok post” as a news source for this
According to Fingrid data, it was already operational on the 16th of March.
https://www.fingrid.fi/sahkomarkkinat/sahkojarjestelman-tila/
Torille?
It used to be the case that the single largest industrial energy use of Finland was drying paper in the many vast paper mills. First it was gas burners, then infrared heaters. The mills are mostly gone now, but many now are filled with server racks as data centres, which are still energy intensive.
The only bad thing about nuclear is that as the plants are so far from cities, the hot water produced can’t be used for heating homes.
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Interestingly, the electricity is more expensive today tho 😆
Will the prices drop though?
…and it will be shut down by another unexpected fault for maintance before tomorrow noon…
Hell yeah! It’s the best one ever! Now they need to start building another one.
As a Finn I’ll make sure to get all my news from Bangkok post from now on.
Germany on suicide watch
Ironic that it went online in Finland the same week Germany took their last nuclear plant offline
Why tf is my spot price 11c right now?
Gotdang energy companies still gotta max out their profits.
Right on time too
They said it was ahead of schedule too.
I guess 14 years late isn’t a biggie as long as it’s the right day of the week.
Probably the cleanest power source there is. It’s very important to develop and expand nuclear power in face of climate change. Something morons in Germany does not seem to understand.
Energy price going down?
Power! Unlimited power!