Table I is an attempt to assess how large the various barriers are in the studied countries. The table starts with some general conditions. Ownership and organisation considers if district- heating companies are owned, or DH operations are organised, in ways that make it more difficult for Swedish companies to do business. Corruption may be a problem through, for example, indirect bribes by procurement. National and local control encompasses national laws and policy instruments that are disadvantageous for district heating, DH price regulations, as well as municipalities not facilitating district heating by planning of new developments. But rules complicating combined heat and power production are included in the CHP line in Table I. Financing is one of the largest barriers to district heating, primarily because DH schemes give a low rate of return. A fragmented value chain cause contract risks at several instances. Entrance
results come only after great efforts. Sensitivity in my integrated meaning is broad, covering literally the senses, so that deaf and blind people are less sensitive, as well as people whose senses work perfectly, but whose receptivity or thought processes are blunted for whatever reason. A person can be insensitive in one way, such as blind, and extraordinarily sensitive in another way, such as in hearing. It is also possible to be so ultra-sensitive that the result is disadvantageous. I expect no argument in asserting that a normal sensitivity is a healthy, indispensable ingredient for optimal education. Sensitivity can be heightened or blunted by education. It is intertwined with curiosity. An ideal education affords numerous and varied opportunities for students to touch, see, smell, listen, hear; to spark their curiosity. When I was a child the things that pleased me were largely other than the plants which have earned me a living as an adult