Sweden wants your trash.

Post #401,344 by malraux 4/30/15 12:34:14 PM Reply	Sweden wants your trash. http://www.districtenergy.org/blog/2013/10/07/sweden-imports-waste-from-european-neighbors-to-fuel-waste-to-energy-program/ Sweden recycles almost all of its household waste (99% of it according to something just posted on the Sweden Google+ account today). They also burn waste to generate electricity and heat, something like 20% of their district heating (commercial and residential buildings). The waste burning also generates electricity for 250K homes. But because they're so successful at recycling, they now have to import trash from Europe for the incinerators. I've been reading a good bit about Sweden lately as part of learning the language. They have some problems like all places do, but compared to many places the country seems idyllic. Safest roads in the world after 3 other countries, all of which are islands. Fewer homicides than Chicago with 1/5 the population. One of the best economies in the world, one of the best GINI coefficients, one of the best for gender equality, amazing public transportation, Stockholm is one of the cleanest cities in the world, and so on. The bee is the most dangerous animal in Sweden (kills one person a year), they don't suffer from natural disasters apart from an occasional landslide, and the climate in Stockholm is quite mild. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #401,356 by a6l6e6x 4/30/15 4:58:06 PM Reply	In my experience it is, however, an expensive place to visit. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #401,361 by malraux 4/30/15 5:57:47 PM 4/30/15 5:58:37 PM Reply	Restaurants are twice as expensive there. But food costs for making your own are 40% cheaper than here. Additionally, the euro used to be much more expensive to buy with dollars than it is now. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. Edited by malraux April 30, 2015, 05:58:37 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #401,379 by pwhysall 5/1/15 12:31:14 PM Reply	Downside It's boring as shit. Nice place to visit, wouldn't want to live there.
Post #401,381 by drook 5/1/15 12:36:59 PM 5/1/15 12:37:10 PM Reply	Don't you have that backwards? You just described a nice suburb. -- Drew Edited by drook May 1, 2015, 12:37:10 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #401,382 by malraux 5/1/15 12:47:27 PM Reply	That's why it would be great to live there. All the non-boring places are right next door, all the stability at home. You can drive across the Baltic Sea to mainland Europe via the Øresund fer chrissakes. Paraphrasing the Chinese curse, "May you live in an interesting country." Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #401,392 by Ashton 5/1/15 2:12:20 PM Reply	I believe that you have grokked the Matter to ƒullness. (And in fact: Tivoli, København are right across the gatt!) from whence one can [pilot one's own inferrnal-machine] ..partake of the May 8th activities celebrating the departure of the earlier Nazis from all over You-rop (well, for a time ... until the Shogunate and other Imperial thuggees began again to roam the perpetually gang-raped planet.) I happened to drive across into Nederland on that very day, enjoying being immediately stopped by some local Scouts, tying flowers onto grille. Glum faces? at the exit-Germany posts.. 'Course that was a mere 15 years since the cessation of that earlier madness, so likely they thought they were celebrating the permanent demise of that pre-transistors, cruder Evul. We Poor Bastards. Brevity Award with 3 recycled-olive-pits, for May you live in an interesting country ;^> (Though this one manages to combine the worst aspects of Interesting with the best parts of rilly-Boring: much more than any previous asinine empire on my bookshelf.) Territoriality oxymoron?
Post #401,394 by malraux 5/1/15 2:25:55 PM Reply	Many people make that as a commute daily. It's cheaper to live in Sweden and commute, apparently. Another bonus of Swedish citizenship: you don't need a permit to live/work in the other Scandic countries if the mood takes you. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #401,411 by a6l6e6x 5/1/15 9:27:01 PM Reply	And the Swedes all take the ferry to Finland for booze. And the Danes, nursing centuries old grievances, hate the Swedes. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #401,412 by boxley 5/1/15 9:47:41 PM Reply	and the finns go to eastonia Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep

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