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  1. Mendel

    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    That's bunk. Przewodow predates power grids. Polish Wikipedia via Google translate (German wikipedia confirms): The village is located in the old Polish district of Belz. In 1403 it was part of the Latin parish of Rzeplin , at that time it belonged to Benedykt (Radzanowski?) from Przewodów and...
  2. Mendel

    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    From June: "On the night of June 25, a massive missile and bomb attack was carried out on the territory of Ukraine. In particular, Russian bombers operated directly from the territory of Belarus. For this purpose, six Tu-22M3 aircraft were involved, which launched 12 X-22 cruise missiles. The...
  3. Mendel

    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    Premature reports of Ukrainian forces capturing territory on the left bank of the Dnipro River provoked backlash in the Russian information space. Reports emerged that Ukrainian forces had reached Nova Kakhovka, Oleshky (about 10km southeast of Kherson City), and the Kinburn Spit, but Ukrainian...
  4. Mendel

    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    Russian forces conducted the largest set of missile strikes against Ukrainian critical infrastructure since the start of the war. Ukrainian Air Force Command spokesperson Yuriy Ignat reported on November 15 that Russian forces launched about 100 Kh-101 and Kh-555 cruise missiles at targets in...
  5. Mendel

    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    yes, that's what my first source said (note the URL): The power line will connect Poland’s southeastern city of Rzeszów with Khmelnytskyi in western Ukraine and have a voltage of 400 kV I think this is the same as the old route represented by the dashed line on my map? I just have a hard time...
  6. Mendel

    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    Do you have a source? Currently, the only line operating across the Polish-Ukrainian border does not connect the power systems of the two countries, but two Ukrainian power plants directly to the Polish energy system. This is from June.
  7. Mendel

    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian missiles hit Nato member Poland on Tuesday in what he called a “significant escalation” of the conflict as dozens more caused destruction and power outages across Ukraine. US and other western officials were investigating explosions at a grain store in Przewodow...
  8. Mendel

    Claim: BRT/Buses has better capacity than rail

    The topic is capacity, not flexibility. Nobody suggests replacing a whole bus network with rail. I'd also like an example for a high-capacity rail line ("from A to B") that has been abandoned. The only rail lines I know to be abandoned were quite low-capacity to begin with, and many (e.g...
  9. Mendel

    2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UFO FLIR footage (FLIR1)

    this implies that the Nimitz target (possibly) exists and was not engineered by anyone we know could everyone please stop sealioning now? or take the clarifications to PMs?
  10. Mendel

    2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UFO FLIR footage (FLIR1)

    example precedent for balloon spoof: the one identified UAP in last year's UAPTF report was a large, deflating balloon anti-grav force being unprecedented:
  11. Mendel

    Claim: BRT/Buses has better capacity than rail

    a hypothetical bus line has more capacity than actual rail, right why not compare it to hypothetical rail? automate the train control to remove signaling and you can achieve much shorter headways. you can also design rail to occupy unused space, which is why urban rail is often underground or...
  12. Mendel

    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    Maybe. But a) you have no evidence, and b) it's not saber-rattling if it's not anywhere close to official. Absent evidence (and contrary the evidence I've quoted), your narrative simply aligns with Western propaganda aiming to portray Putin as this evil guy who'll start WW3 and kill us all if...
  13. Mendel

    Claim: Solar Technology is Not Green

    About the Cadmium (which is not actually elemental Cadmium): The International Energy Agency studied the risk to human health from heavy metals leaching out of solar panels and reported it was below US screening levels, while water contamination levels were within the guidelines from the World...
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    Claim: Solar Technology is Not Green

    please use EX tags, your quotes are impossible to reply to From the OP: IRENA projected that this amount [of solar panel waste] could reach 78 million metric tonnes by 2050. Counter point: The paper could be read as a counterpoint to some of the estimates in a 2016 report from the...
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    Claim: Solar Technology is Not Green

    reminds me of when i see an ad for the fifth time that claims to share a "secret" with me: it's never a secret. The environmental impact of photovoltaic panels (PVs) is an extensively studied topic, generally assessed using the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) methodology. Due to this large amount of...
  16. Mendel

    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    Yes. That meeting took place mid-October and was reported Nov 2nd. However, since then things have happened. Key Kremlin officials began collectively deescalating their rhetoric regarding the use of nuclear weapons in early November. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) released a...
  17. Mendel

    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    yeah, but I'm not seeing the accompanying rhetoric. August 21, 2022 Russia says it has deployed Kinzhal hypersonic missile three times in Ukraineobviously with a conventional warhead The Kinzhal missile can also be used to destroy satellites in low earth orbit.We do have the Russian threat for...
  18. Mendel

    Can White Swans exist?

    That's because the words no longer mean to them what they mean to us, the referents have changed. Orwell called it NewSpeak, @Rory calls it gobbledegook, but the effect is the same: that language prevents contact with reality, and it's hard to get around that.
  19. Mendel

    Claim: Environmentalists are more likely to cheat and steal

    it's not ok to generalize the study to be about environmentalists, because a) "not using actual green consumers" (a point you also made in the OP) and b) becoming an environmentalist is a long-term "outcome of a number of processes" that aren't reflected in this "laboratory experiment", and...
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