Russia plans to launch the world’s first floating nuclear power plant in 2010 — a two-reactor barge the size of a football field. The idea is to sail it around the Arctic Ocean bringing electricity to isolated coastal towns, where shipping coal or other fossil fuels is inefficient and unprofitable. The ship will […]
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russian floating nuclear plant will set sail in 2010
June 26th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: energy · europe · neato · russia · scary
photos from an abandoned russian library
April 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Just what the title says. I’m not sure why, but these photos kinda make me just a little sad.
Via The Presurfer.
Tags: images · photography · russia
world’s deepest hole
April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Oh get out of the gutter.
Here’s another neat find by the aptly-named Cool Things in Random Places — a short piece on a Soviet-era borehole in Russia’s Murmansk region that’s an astounding 12.3 km deep (12 km the other way, and in most parts of the world you’re into the stratosphere). I like his […]
the making of a tsar: interview with an elected emperor
February 9th, 2008 · No Comments
A rare, fascinating and only slightly slanted look at Time Magazine’s 2007 person of the year.
How do Russians see Putin? For generations they have defined their leaders through political jokes. It’s partly a coping mechanism, partly a glimpse into the Russian soul. In the oft told anecdotes, Leonid Brezhnev was always the dolt, […]
