News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

@Weimarer

to my understanding PiS (or namely Kaczyński) try to use war reparation demands as a deterring tool against the forays of Germany into our internal matters (if this was a true will of Kaczyński Poland would officially demand the reparations by now) - but I guess it can backfire badly - it is also playing into the widespread Polish sentiment so in a way it is a tool of internal politics of Poland

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


can you see martial law looming? I don't - but I understand rabid or hysterical people have their imaginations slightly off

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


do you realize that the rabidness of the likes of you can lead to a civil war?

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


how is the government actually breaking the law

Work / Photography Jobs in Poland? [5]

once you get married to a Polish citizen you are allowed to work in Poland but immigration services would check if you both live together as far as I know ( they do it in order to fight sham marriages)

Work / Photography Jobs in Poland? [5]


as far as I know you have to be employed by someone to get a Karta Pobytu (residence card) if you are not a EU-citizen (or be a spouse of someone who is Polish or allowed residence in Poland

- some countries allow residence for investors bringing in money to the host country but a quick search in Polish didn't find any such method for Poland -

edit: one source actually quotes that residence can be granted to a person who wants to run business in Poland but it didn't state any details

found a webpage with a little more details but I'm too lazy to translate it right now: udsc.gov.pl/cudzoziemcy/obywatele-panstw-trzecich/chce-przedluzyc-swoj-pobyt-w-polsce/zezwolenie-na-pobyt-czasowy/dzialalnosc-gospodarcza/

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]


English is the most to the point language in the world - and if someone says American English is ugly i just shake my head in disbelief

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


good question

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


you don't see no harm and I see a huge cost - who is going to splash it out?

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]


maybe I am an idiot but to my mind unbridled liberalism destroys itself unless there are technological breakthroughs that reshape the economy

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]


Ukranians in Poland are gastarbeiters not refugees (by a humongous majority)

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


some people in the countryside use LPG installations for heating - but LPG is more than 60 per cent expensive than coal heating (although it obviously clean and requires little attention) - LNG (methane) is cheaper than LPG but a bit more expensive than coal - also most cities and towns are connected to LNG grid so you don't need a gas tank

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


I appreciate that you care johnny but I sort of have my heating sorted for the time being - so for now thanks, but no

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


I don't know, maybe they use some other electric phenomenon that I don't know of because regular electric heater use electric resistence as the source of heat and this just simply costs too much


just looked up Sunheat website - they claim their heaters operate on infrared radiation - maybe it is a cheaper way of heating with electricity

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


I don't know what is smarter in the long run - what I know is that with current technology it is pretty expensive and probably not economic to store electric energy so you cannot have just solar panels as your energy source (think night) - although I heard that IBM has recently achieved a breakthrough with battery technology which sounds promising but as far as I know it is not in the commercial phase as yet.


I just don't have the money - you know sometimes even taking a credit for a thing you desire is too expensive

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


you have to have this money in the first place - also you have to have a suitable location for the panels

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


I don't have respiratory issues :) :P

electric heating is the most expensive (more than twice as expensive) in Poland (unless you inherited a sizeable set of photovoltaics, i mean solar panels)

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]

Polish language is illogical and obscures the reality

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


I want my coal unless you provide me with equally cheap alternative - the simple thing is coal is the cheapest way to heat your home in Poland - even the LNG heating is more expensive not mentioning the prohibitive cost of such installations if you are not in the reach of LNG grid - I have no reason to care for smog because I live in a forest - so while I agree that there are areas where smog is an issue and they surely have to consider ways of dealing with the issue I cannot be even asked to have a 20 000 PLN LNG installation in my home because I simply don't have the 20 000


ok I checked the going prices - and LNG installation costs about 7 000 PLN - which doesn't change the fact that I don't have it - so unless there is an overall ban on coal in this country or there is a program of significant subsidies I won't be having and LNG installation any time soon

Genealogy / Toboyek Surname Widnace Location Help [13]


In Polish 'w' is pronounced as English 'v' (in the same manner as 'w' in German)

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

here - Germans are opening new coal powered power plant in Ruhr Gebiet : -

reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-germany-coal-uniper/unipers-datteln-4-coal-fired-power-plant-will-be-connected-to-grid-conservative-idUSKBN1ZF0LL

- it transpires that German coal is clean as opposed to Polish coal

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

as early as in the 80's I have seen estimates that if all of the ice on Earth melted the sea level would rise by about 75 meters - Ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica are huge

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

you are wrong, Miloslaw

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

the volume of the oceans on earth is around 1,4 billion cubic kilometers - this is about 4 billion times more than the volume your source states as the data for the melting of Greenland and Antarctica

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


you can't read, man - you stated (ok quoted) a simulation revealed that there is a tipping point of CO2 atmosphere content where stratus clouds dissapear - the problem is this level of CO2 is three times bigger than now and that that level with current rise of CO2 in the atmosphere would take hundreds of years - I guess you learn as you go - otherwise you just gobble the nonsense that we are at the brink of a disaster

co za idiota wprowadził ten limit cytowania to nie wiem


on a nasa website Bratwurst linked

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

ok so what is the content of CO2 in the atmosphere now? what is the 'tipping point' in the simmulation you mention? - seriously use some of your intuition more

your graph - you probably never paid the attention to what you see just confirms what I said: the sea levels rose less than 10cm in the last 30 year

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


to be honest I never heard of this simulation - anyway simulations can often change drammatically with a small change of various factors - also i read (the information was hacked like back in 2007 or 2008) that top climate scientists were manipulating (giving false data actually) data to suit their theories and they cooperated globally for the purpose


you weren't even able to give the data of how much the sea level rose in the last 20 years - my assumption of 15cm is probably nothing more than that - (my guess would be less than 10 cm

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

read again -in more than 100 years of constant fossil fuel burning the ocean level rose 30 cm - let's say it changed 15 cm in the last 30 years - there is still so much to go :P

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


yeah sure- as Atch stated the sea levels rose 30 cm since 1880 - that really is terryfing - millions of people would die - aaaaaaaaa! - fear mongering


do you understand the word could? do you understand that like 15 years ago we didn't even have real time satelite cloud imagery

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


as I said there are no complementary researches so far on global cloud cover - just think of how much different is a cloudy day during the summer compared to a cloudless one