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convex   
29 Apr 2010
Real Estate / House prices in Poland to drop more or rise again? [228]

How can these companies lose money?, they have a monopoly and a captive consumer market.
If you do not pay their asking price, where else can you go?

That's kind of what I mean, they will react to the changes much slower than someone closer to the community. Way more people will have their water shut off before the company actually seriously reacts.

Yet another reason why regulation and monopolies aren't a good thing..
convex   
29 Apr 2010
News / Nuclear Power in Poland? Yes, please! Absolutely nobody disagrees! [73]

Alright, I gave you an argument. Now where's yours?

Sure, why aren't they being built like mad? Why do they need to subsidized? What do we do in the short term? Where will you build these thousands of turbines? These are all great ideas if you have the space.

Ever heard about energy storage?

Beautiful, 100% in, 70% out, on a good day. Plus of course the increased cost per kwh to the home.

Keep in mind that it's subsidized.

Wow, don't know where to start with that. In Europe, all nuclear plants have a cleanup fund that has to be funded before construction can begin. It's factored in to the pricing. The coal market is fairly volatile, and it's getting much more expensive year on year to burn coal.

For example, I'm sitting behind my computer. My computer doesn't really need 230 V to work properly. It needs 12 V to be exact. I've just made coffee, and my coffee machine doesn't really need 230 V either! (I'm willing to bet it needs 12 V aswell!) Lightbulbs? Televisions? They don't need 230 V either! (Yup, 12 V will suffice!)

Not following you here. Wouldn't that be a bit dangerous?

Nuclear isn't the long term end all answer. But we need energy right now, and gas and coal are quickly becoming unacceptable.
convex   
29 Apr 2010
Real Estate / House prices in Poland to drop more or rise again? [228]

The problem being the disconnect with the discontent of your customers. Those companies only take action when they've passed the tipping point and begin losing money.
convex   
28 Apr 2010
News / Nuclear Power in Poland? Yes, please! Absolutely nobody disagrees! [73]

Less expensive than all the nuclear reactors, factories and personel you're going to need to achieve the same results. (Energy wise.)

For some reason, nuclear is still on par with hydro on cost per kwh. A nuclear plant has a fairly small footprint compared to hydro. Uranium is cheap for a reason. The supply of uranium for reactors will last thousands of years. Thorium is all over the place.

You'll need to repeat the whole splitting process again

Not too up on how fast breeder reactors work. 300,000 kwh/kg before reprocessing...not going to have supply problems. If there were supply problems, energy companies wouldn't be pushing for new reactors...

Windmills, water-turbines or solar panels. Take your pick. (Actually, take them all at the same time!) No waste, no transport, a less work-intensive process, a hundred percent effectiveness, no risks. More jobs, an endless supply of energy and more money in your pockets.

Wind and solar can't provide base power. They are nice for augmenting the grid, and I like the decentralized aspect of it. Hopefully it will become cost effective sooner than later.
convex   
28 Apr 2010
News / Nuclear Power in Poland? Yes, please! Absolutely nobody disagrees! [73]

Check out the Hoover Dam please.

Yea, hydro is awesome, but also very expensive. How much are the Chinese throwing down on their new project?

Oh really? Well, answer this question then; How much time, money, effort and energy will it cost to actually create Uranium? And even with breeder reactors, you'll still need a certain amount of raw, natural Uranium! (U 235.)

Or Thorium. Anyway, for the uranium argument, there is plenty. Little thing called reprocessing helps too...

Green technology looks more promising and you know it.

Again, no answer for base load. Would you suggest replacing all base load in a country the size of Germany with hydro? It's no feasible for the long term. Coal, nuclear, or gas, take your pick.
convex   
28 Apr 2010
Food / What's your favorite Polish coffee? [73]

There are dozens, maybe hundreds of palarnie kawy (coffee-roasting firms) in Poland. They inlcude:

Thanks!

The grounds should settle to the bottom.
convex   
28 Apr 2010
News / Nuclear Power in Poland? Yes, please! Absolutely nobody disagrees! [73]

How much time, effort and energy does it cost to enrich Uranium? Much and much more than a water-turbine, a solar panel or a windmill, because these have an infinite supply of free energy, which makes them 100% effective.

Which is great when you've got sunlight and wind, not too great for base load. Regarding being 100% effective, lifespan vs manufacturing cost vs energy output. Overall impact has to be taken into account.

How much Uranium can be found worldwide? Barely enough for sixty to eighty years of energy production.

Yawn, breeder reactors? Comeon, the technology has actually advanced over the last 50 years you know...
convex   
28 Apr 2010
News / RUSSIA TO MAKE PUBLIC THE KATYN FILES... [274]

There are not criminals - they are true heroes and winners. Criminals - forever - are those who lost WWII.

Like the Russians in Afghanistan?
convex   
22 Apr 2010
Food / Does beer have any "real" expire date? [39]

Wheat beer is normally unfiltered. You will only see separation in a filtered lager if it's been sitting around for decades.
convex   
21 Apr 2010
Food / What's your favorite Polish coffee? [73]

No producers (coffee doesn't grow here) but there are quite a few roasters now.

Could you list a couple? All I see in the stores are imports (or what I think are imports).
convex   
20 Apr 2010
News / THE ARMY OF POLAND - THE REALITY [493]

Had better infrastructure to begin with and survived the war intact, with the exception of Hungarians who's example you've taken out of your ass, Hungary has far worse infrastructure than Poland.

You're full of sh*t there. I'll give you Romania, but Hungary has an excellent infrastructure.

So how many years does it take to fix the roads? Why are they patched up every year instead of built right? Why is Poland sitting on structural funds?

Regarding the WW2 comment, that doesn't hold much water. Most roads in Europe at that time were old cobble stone roads, some having been asphalted over.

There is no excuse for the roads here. They just aren't taken care of properly. What is happening with all that money? How much of it has been spent?
convex   
20 Apr 2010
Food / Does beer have any "real" expire date? [39]

Those are all the vitamins that make a hefe the glorious creation that it is. Might want to google "how to pour a hefeweizen", I think the paulaner bottles have instructions on proper yeast removal technique.
convex   
19 Apr 2010
News / THE ARMY OF POLAND - THE REALITY [493]

German agreements with Switzerland were a face saving smokescreen.

It was all about resource allocation. Same reason that Sweden wasn't occupied.
convex   
18 Apr 2010
News / THE ARMY OF POLAND - THE REALITY [493]

If he's a conscript trainee yeah i would, otherwise its a stupid idea in any country.

How about making all males to the age of 45 be part of a reserve force?

Money

Czechs? Hungarians? Slovaks?

The infrastructure in Poland is terrible, there just isn't any way to get around that. Parts are getting better (IC rail travel, highways), parts seem to be getting worse (B roads, city roads).
convex   
18 Apr 2010
News / THE ARMY OF POLAND - THE REALITY [493]

Must be why our GDP was the only one growing in Europe in the past 2 years.

Germans, Russians, and EU are the external enemy...

Anyway, the context was with guns. Would you support issuing an automatic rifle to every male over 18 as part of a defense strategy?

And if you want to quote GDP, you need to remember that quite a bit of GDP is derived from consumer debt.

Anyway, how are median incomes looking like? How about cost of living (or inflation) vs median income (or per capita GDP)? Why is the infrastructure in such poor shape?

For another thread...
convex   
18 Apr 2010
News / THE ARMY OF POLAND - THE REALITY [493]

Poland can't depend on NATO or the United States.

Problem is that Poland can't trust Poles. If there is no external enemy, things don't work right in the country.
convex   
17 Apr 2010
USA, Canada / To move back to Poland from the USA or not to move back....that is the question [119]

I would remind everyone that the American rockets have been turned down by the Polish state.

Actually the opposite happened. The original design was scraped and it was decided to use SM-3s. The Polish government has agreed to having SM-3s stationed on its territory. So has Romania, and there's talk of placing them in Bulgaria as well.

Go home to Poland.

Just make sure you have a job lined up first.
convex   
17 Apr 2010
Food / Does beer have any "real" expire date? [39]

My question is, are they still drinkable?

It won't make you sick. It might taste a bit nasty. Pour one, and you'll probably be able to make a fairly quick decision on what to do with the remaining 19.
convex   
15 Apr 2010
News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]

Interesting USA Today article on the aircraft's avionics. It states that it was equipped with a TAWS, which should have warned the pilot about ground proximity, and helped him avoid the trap of rising ground on the approach..

Even if the maps weren't accurate, wouldn't the radar altimeter tell TAWS that something was amiss?
convex   
15 Apr 2010
News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]

I guess - the most simple was to switch on false radio-beacon, and to swith off real radio-beacons.

Americans would have to be in on it as well. They would have also had to tamper with the radar altimeter, manipulate the charts, and fire up the weather control machine. That, and and manipulate the GPS receivers (or the satellites....).

That's a lot of work for little gain.