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About Me

I am a member of board in Hollming Ltd., a Finnish family owned conglomerate operating in environmental technologies, auxiliary units, service and metal works. My current focus in leading ballast water treatment business sector at Auramarine Ltd.

I am physicist by trade and have studied in Turku University, Finland, where I am also doing studies for eMBA.

Previously I have worked with nuclear safety issues in Finland and in Sweden. My main area of expertise there has been fast transient analyses.

Location:
Finland, Turku
Current organization:
Hollming Ltd.
Past organizations:
Auramarine Ltd.
Current role:
Board Member
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Environmental Technology, Nuclear Engineering, Ballast Water Treatment
I am:
Agnostic, Job-seeker, Student, Technologist
Languages:
Finnish, Swedish, English, German
Universities:
Turku University
TED conferences attended:
TEDGlobal 2013
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I'm passionate about

new technologies, innovative ways to solve problems and ways to help the environment survive us.

An idea worth spreading

The future will bring challenges and the only way to survive these challenges is to do things better, in more clever and less disruptive way. This includes the life cycle of every product and technology from cradle to grave. With smart environmental technologies it is possible to not just repair problems arising from present day decisions but also partly use the resources discarded in the past.

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Environmental technologies, Energy production, saving energy, innovative ways to make things, marine ecology or the weather

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    A comment on Conversation: THORIUM. Is it really that safe and great alternative to Nuclear? Is it the Other Miracle that Bill Gates is looking for?

    Mar 16 2011: Just to make one thing clear at first:

    Thorium power is nuclear power.

    The main point of using thorium, in addition to the proliferation issues with uranium, is that there is 10 fold amount of it available compared to Uranium. If you take into account also the fact that we only use uranium-235 in our nuclear reactors, and this consitutes only 0.7% of the total amount of uranium, the increase is 100 fold.

    Thorium reactors also operate by burning uranium. This is created from thorium by bombarding it with neutrons. This forms uranium 232, which is highly radioactive and is hence hard to deal. This is why U232 can't be used for nuclear weapons, it's hard to handle.

    If you consider the events which are now unfolding in Japan, the heat being released at Fukushima is from the fission products. Fission products are an inevitable result of fission processes and therefore such an event could also happen to a thorium nuclear power plant.

    Thorium as a nuclear fuel is propably the way to go in the future. This is due to it's high availability and low price. But before we get there we need to learn a lot more about large breeder reactors and reactors operating on fast neutrons.
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    A comment on Conversation: So what is the CO2 footprint of nuclear energy really?

    Feb 16 2011: It's a good question and a hard one to answer. As always with this sort of things, the result depends on who calculates the emission and what effects are taken into account. The largest contributing factor is the grade of the uranium ore mined. This is because enriching uranium takes huge amounts of energy even with the most efficient methods.

    The World Nuclear Association puts CO2 emissions from nuclear power between 9 and 21 g/kWh. (http://www.world-nuclear.org/education/comparativeco2.html) You should remember though, that WNA is an association of nuclear power companies so they would probably prefer a low figure.

  • A comment on Talk: Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy?

    Nov 19 2010: After watching this TED presentation I must agree with Stewart. The reason is that the energy density of nuclear power can not be matched with wind power or solar.

    Another thing is, as Mark states in the video, the process of building a nuclear power plant is rather long, but so is the process of building a wind turbine. Atleast here in Finland the power companies have large problems in getting permits for their wind farm due to the NIMBY phenomenon. Also, you have to apply for permits for each of the wind power sites which takes a lot longer than applying for permits for a single site.

    To solve the future energy crisis we need to build nuclear and renewables and we need to do it fast. Otherwise we cannot meet the Copehagen goals.

  • A reply on Talk: Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!

    Nov 19 2010: I agree with Joachim that pumped hydro is the best technology to store MWh amounts of energy. You can check the attached link, which is about a suggestion to store windpower with pumped hydro reservoirs in Denmark.

    I shortened the link: http://goo.gl/czCfO

  • A reply on Talk: Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!

    Nov 19 2010: I found this article on Physorg about EADS wanting to build one:
    http://www.physorg.com/news183278937.html

    But I've also read about a Japanese company that has plans for the near future.

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