Finland

Assembly 2016 computer demos

Assembly Summer 2016 computer festival was held last weekend. It was about computer gaming and Demoscene. The demoscene is an international computer art subculture that specializes in producing demos: small, self-contained computer programs that produce audio-visual presentations. I was not at the place this year, but I looked at some of the computer demo productions →

Energy in Finland

Finland is  in northern Europe with an area of 338,432 km2  of which 72% forest, 10% water, 8% cultivated land. Energy in Finland 2016 publication gives you overview of energy consumption in Finland. →

Good news from Finland

There has been so many bad news around the world and about Finland, so here is time for some good news (most picked from Finnfacts): Finland remains world’s least fragile country article tells that for the sixth year in a row Finland has been recognised as the least fragile country in the global Fragile State →

Warning on SMS scams sent to Finnish phones

Many Finnish phones have received over the weekend and Monday a text message scam.Messages appear to be from the Croatian and Slovenian telephones, ie + + 385- and 386-numbers.  Did you get this text message? Remove it! I got the message and dis that. Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority Viestintävirasto has written a security note on →

Power-to-gas technology

enewable energy is generally defined as energy that is collected from resources which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat. Based on REN21‘s 2016 report, renewables contributed 19.2% to humans’ global energy consumption and 23.7% to their generation of electricity in 2014 and 2015. Efficient →