This post isn’t about politics. I. The Convention at the Crossroads June 5–7, 2026, Jyväskylä’s Paviljonki. Petteri Orpo, the Prime Minister, arrives not with a handshake but with a spectacle: a video of himself racing to the venue in a rally car — a piece shown to a hall of party faithful. Inside, a life‑sized…
An exercise in applied energy economics, social contagion theory, and the art of the reluctant rooftop installation ACT I: THE DEMAND SIDE – A LOT More Things That Need Power Finland today uses about 83 terawatt‑hours of electricity per year. That’s a lot. But the pipeline of new industrial projects we examined – data centres,…
Note: the author himself sells solar panels. However, facts are facts. For years, Finnish homeowners were told that solar panels are a nice environmental gesture but a financial stretch. Payback periods of 10–15 years were common wisdom. That wisdom is now obsolete. The combination of three converging forces – rising fuel prices, redesigned grid tariffs,…