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Posts by peterweg  

Joined: 16 Feb 2007 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 19 Jun 2020
Threads: Total: 37 / Live: 25 / Archived: 12
Posts: Total: 2,311 / Live: 2,043 / Archived: 268 		From: London, Battersea, Krakow.
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peterweg   
28 Oct 2017
UK, Ireland / The "Paracetamol Myth" - Polish people hesitate to visit UK doctors. [46]

(in his view the nurse was in danger of infecting anyone and anything they come into contact with and the idea of throwing the uniform in the family wash was kind of sickening to him).

Nurses change in and out of uniform at work, in the UK.
peterweg   
18 Oct 2017
News / US Investor seeks 700 million dollars in damages from Poland [45]

no heavily subsidising green energy doesn't make Poland richer

On shore wind power is the cheapest available. Nothing can compete against it, not even coal.

Now, a contract signed years ago for a long term would be at a much higher price than it could be built today. The installer will have invested at the higher cost with a long term plan to get a return on investment.
peterweg   
16 Sep 2017
UK, Ireland / British court lets violent Polish racists walk free [61]

I think there should have been a mechanism where crimes involving violence would mean that they could be deported back to Poland

In a year, Brexit, they will be deported
peterweg   
16 Sep 2017
UK, Ireland / British court lets violent Polish racists walk free [61]

That would explain their names:Ineta and Kasimiersz. These are not Polish names.

Poles born in the UK anglicise their names from unspellable, unpronounceable things like these.

Ineta is a Latvian name.
peterweg   
9 Sep 2017
Life / Tap Water quality in Poland [44]

Krakow water is perfectly fine to drink, EU water plant guarantees that.

Depending on if any of those old pipes are lead pipes.

Little Lead piping left in the EU, its more of a problem in the USA.
peterweg   
6 Sep 2017
Classifieds / Polish Home Carers Needed in Colchester, Essex, UK [60]

Many of us may earn more than £ 16,000 a year but many of us also forget that large sections of the population will be earning approx £ 16k so I don't think people should get snobby about it

Its a ****, unskilled job but its more than minimum wage. My brother works in an office and gets paid less than £16K.

What everyone if ignoring is that Working Tax Credits could take the wage up to £27k per year with Housing Benefit (local council pays the rent).

For those who don't know the UK's social system, anyone working more than 16 hours per week has their wage topped up with 'in-work' social security payments. The idea is to force/encourage the unemployed to work and make it worthwhile.

but you see the manager getting alot more driving around in s flashy car laughing all the way.

Half the care homes in the UK are on the brink of bankruptcy. They are desperate for staff as its takes a lot of people to run these places and even at £900 per person per week the economics are precarious.
peterweg   
27 Aug 2017
UK, Ireland / 31 year old Polish man causes accident under influence of alcohol and kills 8 [198]

Either way, after Brexit, one can only hope that Polish-registered drivers and trucks will be obliged to have alkomat-type devices installed to prevent this kind of thing happening again.

He was driving a UK registered Fedex truck. Potential lawsuit incoming,..

The family were on their way for a dream holiday to Disneyland,

They were several Wipro employees, non family members. So I'm not sure the they were going on holiday.
peterweg   
20 Aug 2017
Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]

greencarreports.com/news/1112159_rip-natural-gas-cars-doomed-by-cheap-gas-and-electric-cars

Interesting difference to the EU and US, LPG is half the price of petrol or diesel in Poland, more than half the cars sold run on it.
peterweg   
20 Aug 2017
History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [939]

If you have any other information?

Yeah.

Thats bullshit.

A very good example of the relationship between Germany and Russia, despite the fact that because of the war with Germany, Russia has lost 20 million people they have a good relationship and they do not constantly

Germany has admitted its guilt and would never do the same thing again. Russia on the other hand is deluded about its past and is even today attempting to rebuild its Empire by re-invading and occupying its neighbours and throwing our direct threats of nuclear annihilation to anyone who dares to cross it. Also neither of the former allies were innocent, both started the war with the 1939 invasion of Poland

because there is no more Hitler and Stalin,

Really, there looks like a Stalin in the Kremlin today, with the full support of its rabid population.
peterweg   
20 Aug 2017
Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]

"Currently, electronics makers in Asia control the battery business. South Korea's LG Ltd. and Samsung SDI Co. are among the top vendors, according to BNEF. Asia is expected to maintain its lead with an additional eight factories being constructed in China alone.

Automakers are moving quickly to secure battery capacity. Daimler's factory would be the biggest yet in Europe, responding to Tesla's $5 billion Gigafactory venture with Panasonic Corp. ."

"Large-scale factories planned in Sweden, Hungary and Poland, as well as Daimler's battery assembly plant in Germany, are expected to feed demand from automakers such as Volkswagen AG and Renault SA. "

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-22/move-over-tesla-europe-s-building-its-own-battery-gigafactories

New Electric models coming to market
peterweg   
19 Aug 2017
Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]

Tesla is building 3 gigantic battery factories.

Problem for Tesla is that the two other major battery manufacturers are matching the production of Tesla/Panasonic to supply the rest of the worlds car manufacturers.
peterweg   
19 Aug 2017
Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]

So Poland is still talking about it while Tesla is cornering the market.

Tesla have 10% of the European electric car market, they aren't market leaders

Poland will end up buying batteries from Tesla directly along with charging stations in the long haul.

You seem to under the delusion that Tesla have a monopoly on any part of the electric car market:

- Electric batteries are being manufactured by two other battery makers whose production will exceed Tesla's. Tesla's batteries are made by Panasonic

- Hundreds of companies make charging stations, a standard wall socket will do a a push.its 19th century technology.

- Cars are manufactured by hundreds of companies with vastly more manufacturing experience than Tesla. That's why Nissan and BMW outsell Tesla with lower prices.

These battery factories alone (not including the cars and charging stations that PANASONIC builds) by 2020 will dominate the world market.....cha ching !

There, corrected you
peterweg   
17 Aug 2017
Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]

That is why I was wondering why Poland hasn't offered Tesla a tax break and incentive to invest not only in plants to build cars and batteries but also the charging stations.

Tesla is only the 5th largest selling electric car maker in Europe, with 10% of market share. There will be little market for Tesla cars in Poland.

Why the F*** would Poland offer incentives to Tesla?
peterweg   
15 Aug 2017
Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]

More bollocks.

Haphazard opinions are not facts.

And sales figures from a year ago that directly contradict the latest numbers is down right deceitful.

cleantechnica.com/2017/07/05/nissan-leaf-sales-keep-growing/

And of course in Europe the Tesla is not the market leader by a long shot.