kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

What research & IEA was telling long ago, now in more accessible language

> The UK, for instance, wants all new cars to go electric from 2030. But to switch Britain's 31.5 million petrol and diesel vehicles over to a battery-electric fleet would take an estimated 207,900 tonnes of cobalt, 264,600 tonnes of lithium carbonate, 7,200 tonnes of neodymium and dysprosium, and 2,362,500 tonnes of copper.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57234610

The argument for a carbon price - a very comprehensive economic and political analysis of #co2 tax options

https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-price

@Corina

Dream no longer, these are extremely popular in Poland (the message isn't as polite though)

https://allegro.pl/listing?string=karny%20kutas&bmatch=cl-e2101-d3794-c3683-nodict-aut-1-0-0528
@FrazzledBrynn

@Columbkille

The reason far wrapping the bales I was told was that the grass is fermenting in anaerobic atmosphere, which prevents fungi and rot from developing inside the bales. In Poland these are called "kiszonka" which means "sour grass". The alternative is to dry it out, thus making hay, but it's more difficult as a single rain can ruin the process. On the other hand, cows can digest this "sour grass" while horses for example cannot and they need actual hay.

@thor

@guenther

Nope. Grazing animals are usually surrounded by electric fence. I had a theory it's to prevent deers from consuming the crops, but deers easily jump these fences.

@vfrmedia

Interesting, what's in there today? The building is sealed and doesn't seem to be in use.

@encarsia @Prof_Trixie

@vfrmedia

I'm driving there almost every day on work weeks taking my son to UTC, and last week he actually about... the Telephone Exchange as we usually spend significant amount of time in traffic there. I wasn't able to offer him much more information than what I knee about the old electromechanical exchanges I knew from Poland, throwing in some stories about phreaking and blue boxes 😁 By the way, on Twitter the author of this blog just replied https://radioatlanticodelsur.blogspot.com/

@encarsia @Prof_Trixie

@encarsia

And I've read Ukraine just recently declared the famous Duga long range radar near Pripyat a historical monument

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga_radar

@vfrmedia @Prof_Trixie

@vfrmedia

By the way, back in 90's I was so much impressed by Declan McCullagh reporting on Echelon that I registered echelon.pl domain for my personal blog and never imagined I'd be actually walking by its listening post while enjoying a pint of ale 😁

@encarsia @Prof_Trixie

@encarsia

Netflix has a pretty good series on Australia's Pine Gap facility https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap

@vfrmedia @Prof_Trixie

@Prof_Trixie

Wait, did you just insert a Subgenius emoji at the end? 🤔

@vfrmedia

To be honest, that's what it looks like! But hey, that's what radio spectrum is about, someone transmits, someone listens — I have no complaints.

@encarsia @Prof_Trixie

@Prof_Trixie

Wow, I didn't even realize this exists! 👌

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius

@movonw

Soviets did indeed spend enormous resources to prevent their citizens from ever leaving the communist paradise. Modern Russia — probably just as much as the "fenced residential areas" so popular in Poland these days as well. But UK is unique in that they're fencing hectares of fucking nothing so that no unauthorized individual would trespass into their precious patch of nettle and brambles 😂

@encarsia

😂😂😂 that's perfectly plausible explanation!

@Prof_Trixie