So the US, Canada, and Finland just joined an icebreaker design consortium. And I’m wondering why Finland knows icebreakers. Do they need them in the baltic?
Finland leads the world
Following World War II, Finnish companies made rapid advancements in icebreaking technology, pushing the state of the art in icebreaking design, construction, power supply, and propulsion systems. Today, Finland is a global leader in icebreaker design and construction, with most of the world’s icebreakers originating from Finnish expertise. Naturally, every single icebreaker in service in Finland has been designed and constructed locally.
Doesn’t really fully answer the question, but yeah basically we have a lot of ice and shipping routes on the coastlines both west and south
But there’s a chance that, cut off from the sea, the water collected wouldn’t be enough to offset losses (evaporation, etc), right? Kind of like how the Mediterranean was dry when it was cut off from the Atlantic?
A telling sign is that the baltic sea gets less salty the further you go away from its connection to the north sea. That means that the water is flowing out of the baltic sea, so putting a dam there would only slowly rise the sea level.
I hate maps that don’t have North as up. Why why why.
As for this, usually there are rivers that drain into seas. You need to have a plan for those too. Here is the drainage basin for the baltic sea:
So no not feasible.
Where is that map from? At least two of the Finnish rivers are titled with the name of a tributary, but with the correct name.
Found on duck duck go images, vividmaps.com which looks like random maps.
Are you Finnish? I have a question if you are.
What’s the question?
So the US, Canada, and Finland just joined an icebreaker design consortium. And I’m wondering why Finland knows icebreakers. Do they need them in the baltic?
https://akerarctic.fi/en/arctic-passion/world-icebreakers-overview/
Doesn’t really fully answer the question, but yeah basically we have a lot of ice and shipping routes on the coastlines both west and south
Interesting, thanks.
Yeah, the northern parts of the gulf of Bothnia tend to freeze up during the winter.
Have traveled to Finland a couple of times and one of those rivers was familiar to me.
Alternate plan (as it would be a shame to waste a dam): Keep the dam, flood the Baltic sea until Kaliningrad is under water?
Even when it makes the body of water look like a velociraptor?
That’s a shame. I like the dam plan.
It was damned from the start.
Even worse when there’s no compass that indicates north.
But there’s a chance that, cut off from the sea, the water collected wouldn’t be enough to offset losses (evaporation, etc), right? Kind of like how the Mediterranean was dry when it was cut off from the Atlantic?
Well, no, its too far north for that to happen.
A telling sign is that the baltic sea gets less salty the further you go away from its connection to the north sea. That means that the water is flowing out of the baltic sea, so putting a dam there would only slowly rise the sea level.
What if it was a hydroelectric dam?