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[00:00:35] The fully autonomous station was built in the wilderness, without
[00:00:39] access to the power grid, sewage system or GSM
[00:00:42] coverage. If it weren't for satellite antennas, any communication
[00:00:46] with the outside world would not be possible here. The station itself
[00:00:50] generates its own electricity and purifies water, and the ship, along with the new
[00:00:53] polar explorers, always brings back supplies of fuel and
[00:00:56] food.
[00:01:00] Unloading and loading is one of
[00:01:03] the most important activities, because without fuel,
[00:01:06] without equipment, without materials, without
[00:01:10] food, the station cannot function. When the ship reaches
[00:01:13] the fjord, two PTSM amphibious transporters
[00:01:17] are launched at the station, which approach the side of the unit to
[00:01:20] receive the cargo. From the ship, pallets are loaded onto
[00:01:23] amphibious transporters using a ship's
[00:01:25] crane.
[00:01:29] Unloading takes from several to several dozen
[00:01:32] transporter trips on the Land
[00:01:34] Ship route.
[00:01:40] Such unloading is probably one of the most labor-intensive
[00:01:44] and tiring
[00:01:46] tasks to do here. I spent most of the day on
[00:01:50] PTSI swimming to the horizon and
[00:01:53] to the shore with things. Very dangerous
[00:01:56] and exhausting work. Well, unloading
[00:02:00] lasted until 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning due
[00:02:03] to changing weather conditions, well, we had to interrupt
[00:02:07] the unloading and postpone it to the second stage.
[00:02:11] It is really hard, hard work,
[00:02:14] which happens day and
[00:02:18] night in many
[00:02:19] shifts.
[00:02:25] Glaciologists, meteorologists, and oceanographers conduct
[00:02:28] their research in Hornsund.
[00:02:30] Hydrochemists, geologists
[00:02:32] geophysicists.
[00:02:34] Many of the projects carried out are interdisciplinary and
[00:02:37] international. Researchers cannot do without
[00:02:41] the station's infrastructure. An experienced
[00:02:44] technical team ensures its efficient and uninterrupted
[00:02:47] operation.
[00:02:51] The technical group consists of several people,
[00:02:54] the head of the technical group and two technical group employees,
[00:02:57] a mechanic, a conservator. We all
[00:03:01] help each other to prepare the station for
[00:03:04] wintering, every day is a new
[00:03:07] challenge, I wake up in the morning, have breakfast, find out what
[00:03:11] we are doing today, whether we are installing a new incinerator, or repairing
[00:03:15] the PTS, and there was unloading, or I have to transport something with
[00:03:18] a tractor, a few pallets or something like that, often you have to
[00:03:21] build something, some platforms,
[00:03:24] help groups of scientists in the summer, so that will also
[00:03:28] be one of our future tasks.
[00:03:37] Today the weather is so bad, so we'll deal with things
[00:03:41] from the station, we'll go to Banachówka, then we'll deal
[00:03:44] with the electricity in the attic, and we'll see what happens during
[00:03:48] it, our basic way
[00:03:52] of operating is dynamic
[00:03:55] planning, as the weather allows us, that's how
[00:03:58] we work, the biggest problems here when it comes to summer
[00:04:02] work is the wind, the wind speed
[00:04:05] record was probably 50-something meters per
[00:04:08] second, in summer there are winds in
[00:04:11] gusts up to 34 to 40 meters per
[00:04:14] second. For many years, the station has been operating
[00:04:17] a 24-hour duty for 365 days a
[00:04:21] year, which includes three meteorologists, they
[00:04:24] regularly report their observations and, together with
[00:04:27] the technical team, take care of...
[00:04:46] take your weapon because we're going to Banachówka and
[00:04:50] we can go every time we go outside the station, we have to
[00:04:54] take a weapon, a flare gun, here in
[00:04:58] the vicinity of the station,
[00:05:00] it's relatively safe, bears also don't like this place because of
[00:05:04] the smell and the noise, we always have noise, because the generators are
[00:05:07] always working, so they go around
[00:05:10] the station.
[00:05:17] The station's infrastructure includes, among other things, a residential part,
[00:05:21] laboratories, a food warehouse, a workshop with
[00:05:24] power generators, and a technical
[00:05:26] building. This is complemented by a hangar for
[00:05:30] storing boats and water equipment, called
[00:05:34] Banachówka by the residents, and a fuel depot. The mechanic
[00:05:37] is considered the most important person at the station, his work
[00:05:41] ensures continuity.
[00:06:00] we need to switch the next generator for the next period, we go to check the fluid level of oil in the generator,
[00:06:03] agregacie,
[00:06:05] we will start the engine, heat it up to operating temperature, switch
[00:06:09] the power supply.
[00:06:12] The generator is the heart of the station, without
[00:06:15] electricity the station does not function, all devices
[00:06:18] are powered by electricity, including the kitchen, including
[00:06:22] the devices, the laboratories, one
[00:06:24] generator works at this time, when the other is not working,
[00:06:28] we can perform maintenance activities, oil changes and
[00:06:31] prepare the generator so that it is ready at any time to be
[00:06:35] started, to replace the first
[00:06:38] generator in case of failure.
[00:06:41] Now we have to wait a moment. until the generator reaches normal
[00:06:44] operating temperature, after reaching temperature we will notify the station
[00:06:48] that we will switch the power supply,
[00:06:51] well, we still have to wait a few minutes.
[00:06:54] Right by the bay there is a hangar for storing boats and
[00:06:58] floating equipment, as well as fuel tanks for
[00:07:01] the power plant. The residents of the station call this building
[00:07:04] Banachówka, it is from here that oceanographers, hydrochemists
[00:07:08] or hydrologists set out to collect data necessary for Arctic
[00:07:11] research.
[00:07:23] We have a room here that unfortunately suffered a bit
[00:07:26] after one of the storms, this is related
[00:07:30] to climate change, all
[00:07:32] of this was still under this protective layer
[00:07:36] of gabion stones a year ago, these damages were caused by really
[00:07:40] one of the winter storms,
[00:07:42] it brought with it stones, and ice, all
[00:07:46] of this hits with great force and rips it apart, at this moment
[00:07:50] it is all exposed, this is one of our tasks for this year,
[00:07:54] we have a lot to do, as you can see the weather is not the best, so we are returning to the base,
[00:07:57] we will find something to do
[00:08:00] indoors today.
[00:08:05] Maybe more blocks of ice have washed up on the shore today,
[00:08:08] the effect of calving, which is the melting and breaking up of the glacier.
[00:08:43] generator change in 5
[00:08:45] minutes,
[00:08:48] well, unfortunately this is not a favorite moment for scientists, because
[00:08:51] they have various devices connected, some of these
[00:08:54] devices need to be restarted, so if there are
[00:08:58] devices connected, for example, in the auk colony, sometimes
[00:09:02] they have to restart their devices to
[00:09:06] resume recording,
[00:09:09] the generators are powered by fuel that reaches...
[00:09:43] we can pump
[00:09:46] this fuel into this empty one, this fuel comes
[00:09:50] to us by ship from Poland, it is arctic
[00:09:54] diesel fuel, every
[00:09:57] year about 8000
[00:10:01] liters come, this is more or less the amount needed
[00:10:03] for the entire station to function for
[00:10:07] a year with a slight surplus, what is the
[00:10:09] level, about 165 cm, so...
[00:10:12] we are drawing from this now for the generators,
[00:10:21] hydrochemists are just beginning their summer observations.
[00:10:25] They collect samples of surface water to then analyze their
[00:10:27] chemical composition in the Hornsunck laboratory. Rainwater is subjected
[00:10:31] to the same analysis. However, no research will
[00:10:35] take place without a smoothly operating electrical
[00:10:38] installation.
[00:10:43] We have several tasks related to this electricity, which needs to be
[00:10:47] sorted out here. From what I see, most of these cables are
[00:10:50] communication cables, there are no power
[00:10:54] cables, however.
[00:11:02] anyway, we will have to sort them out in a sensible way, a large part of the cables is installed under the station itself
[00:11:06] and under the buildings, we have
[00:11:08] some foxes here, who like to
[00:11:12] gnaw on these cables, a reindeer often gets tangled
[00:11:15] in a cable, so such a cable needs to be replaced, we have to
[00:11:18] make connections of these cables, after all, the Polish
[00:11:22] polar station is located in the kingdom of nature and time...
[00:11:36] most of the recording devices run on electricity,
[00:11:40] electricity is needed for the huts for magnetic measurements or the equipment
[00:11:44] for recording seismic tremors, this requires
[00:11:47] special care from technicians, a power
[00:11:50] outage means an interruption in the continuity of measurements, electricity
[00:11:53] also means... the station or hot water in
[00:11:56] the tap? Water at the station is obtained in winter from snow
[00:12:00] and ice, in summer from nearby
[00:12:02] lakes.
[00:12:04] We have two lakes, one is a little lower, and if the
[00:12:08] upper one runs out of water, we pump water to the
[00:12:11] upper one, unfortunately due to
[00:12:15] global warming, there is less and less water here in
[00:12:18] summer,
[00:12:23] sometimes it happens that there is no water, usually the upper lake
[00:12:27] dries up and we have to draw it directly from the lower
[00:12:30] lake, with an additional pipeline, there is no rebellion, everyone
[00:12:34] has to work to get the water.
[00:12:46] Przemek, what's our water level like, water level is about
[00:12:49] 1 meter, no major contamination visible, the pump is
[00:12:53] clean, it's OK, in
[00:12:57] the lake we only have a pump, which from time to time
[00:13:00] needs to be checked for the level in the lake, so that
[00:13:04] it doesn't draw air. Most of the water supply
[00:13:07] is checked at the station.
[00:13:11] However, this is not the end of the route the water has to travel to reach
[00:13:14] the station. We pump water from the lake
[00:13:18] with a pump to the main
[00:13:20] tank, from which, through a pump
[00:13:24] and a filter system, it goes to the entire station, yes, we also have
[00:13:28] a separate osmosis filter for drinking water for
[00:13:31] the kitchen, as for the winter season, when the lake freezes
[00:13:35] and we are no longer able to draw water from there, inside
[00:13:38] the tank at the bottom there is a coil, which
[00:13:41] is heated by generators, from
[00:13:45] the outside we lift the lid, we throw snow, either
[00:13:48] with shovels or with the help of a tractor, we are polar explorers, we
[00:13:52] are used to extreme conditions, so... there is always
[00:13:55] good weather for shoveling snow. The daily
[00:13:58] functioning of the station, both as a result of the research carried out on it, and
[00:14:02] the normal functioning of scientists, generates various
[00:14:05] types of waste. It is less harmful today to burn them on
[00:14:08] site than to transport them by sea. One of
[00:14:11] the most important planned activities here this summer is the installation
[00:14:15] of a new furnace for waste disposal. This is quite a difficult
[00:14:19] task, because the furnace itself weighs 2.5 tons,
[00:14:22] so it needs to be installed in one of them.
[00:14:38] we'll check if we can make it
[00:14:39] now
[00:14:42] good we have okay good so
[00:14:45] the distance is good we still need to check
[00:14:48] the other one there shouldn't be a problem here we'll
[00:14:52] also mount a tank for
[00:14:56] oil, give me
[00:14:57] it,
[00:15:00] this is the main combustion chamber,
[00:15:03] one burner comes here, this is the second burner, which
[00:15:07] is supposed to burn the exhaust gases, which means we have very clean
[00:15:10] combustion and leave the smallest possible footprint on
[00:15:14] the surrounding nature, well, it's a single-phase device fortunately, which
[00:15:17] uses a very small amount of electricity, which is very important
[00:15:21] here, taking into account the entire infrastructure we have,
[00:15:25] each new device we install, we want
[00:15:28] the energy consumption to be as low as possible,
[00:15:32] so as not to additionally burden
[00:15:34] the generators.
[00:15:41] Next stop, technical control of the sewage
[00:15:45] treatment plant, this is, as far as I know, the first
[00:15:48] and probably the only sewage treatment plant on Svalbard, so
[00:15:52] we are a bit proud of it, at
[00:15:54] the same time a plus for
[00:15:56] nature,
[00:15:59] sewage from the entire station flows in here,
[00:16:03] passes through a sieve, which collects coarser
[00:16:05] impurities, passes
[00:16:08] through reactors, which purify
[00:16:12] it, the sludge remains in
[00:16:15] barrels, while clean water is discharged into
[00:16:18] the fjord, the sludge is dry
[00:16:21] and is to be additionally incinerated in
[00:16:24] the waste incinerator, the only thing
[00:16:28] we generate is a negligible amount of ash at this
[00:16:30] moment.
[00:16:55] After installing the waste incineration furnace, the next step is to install a new chimney. The whole thing constitutes a modern installation, thanks to which the station will minimize its environmental
[00:16:58] footprint.
[00:17:11] Unfortunately, we have to dispose of some of the waste here, because
[00:17:15] transporting it generates a similar
[00:17:18] emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere,
[00:17:21] so there is no choice, station, station
[00:17:25] Piotrwoła,
[00:17:29] listen, we're going to test the incinerator, so
[00:17:32] a fire alarm is possible here in the
[00:17:35] incinerator, so be prepared. to turn it off,
[00:17:39] pierwszy palnik wyłączony,
[00:17:41] we throw it in, and you, Tadzik, get ready to check, then we'll go outside
[00:17:45] right away, what the
[00:17:47] angle looks like,
[00:17:52] in the upper chamber
[00:17:55] 800, in the lower 600, we can see from
[00:17:58] the outside what kind of smoke we have, the color of the smoke depends a lot on
[00:18:02] the incinerator settings, so we will be testing
[00:18:05] that now.
[00:18:37] This is quite a big day for us here at the station for the technical team,
[00:18:41] because it was one of the most important tasks this summer,
[00:18:44] the installation of this device, the previous incinerator served
[00:18:47] us for about 10 years, so
[00:18:51] after these 10 years it must go into well-deserved
[00:18:54] retirement.
[00:19:00] We try to be self-sufficient, of course you can't be prepared for
[00:19:03] all situations, but even if we lack something,
[00:19:07] well, we try to create it from the materials we have on site,
[00:19:21] I saw progress in
[00:19:24] the functioning of the station, in
[00:19:25] equipment, it is truly an
[00:19:29] international research platform, which serves not
[00:19:33] only us, today it is an international station,
[00:19:47] What you definitely must not do is waste
[00:19:51] this achievement, stopping funding for
[00:19:55] polar research will throw us out of this game
[00:19:59] and will also throw us out of this game about the future, which I
[00:20:02] mentioned, so you definitely must not do
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[00:26:39] Valorization of 13th and 14th pensions. Check what awaits
[00:26:42] pensioners in 2027 and also the Train
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[00:27:08] Apartments are hard to find and are expensive, that's how it is today on the real
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[00:27:18] Wallet magazine, Marcin Kowalski, I invite you,
[00:27:20] let's start,
[00:27:25] seniors receiving benefits will be happy, ZUS
[00:27:29] confirms an increase in widow's pension.
[00:27:33] Demographics are changing the housing market, will it affect price
[00:27:36] reduction? How to find a job after
[00:27:40] five, looking for employment is
[00:27:43] a challenge.
[00:27:48] We start our magazine with a topic concerning people who have lost
[00:27:52] a spouse. Widow's pension, it is already in force, but from
[00:27:55] 2027, which is quite soon, there will be new
[00:27:59] rules, beneficial for beneficiaries. What is it
[00:28:02] about? All in our material now,
[00:28:05] I invite you,
[00:28:10] we have good news for people receiving a widow's pension, which is
[00:28:13] a benefit that combines a family pension after a deceased spouse with a retirement
[00:28:17] or disability pension. A senior who this year received one benefit in
[00:28:21] full and 15% of the second, in the future may
[00:28:25] receive several hundred zlotys more. It is very important that
[00:28:28] from January 1, 2027,
[00:28:31] 15 percent will be increased to
[00:28:34] 25% according to the law. To
[00:28:37] receive this higher benefit, you do not need to submit any additional
[00:28:41] applications to ZUS, the institution will do it automatically.
[00:28:44] Let's see by example how much we can gain from next year's
[00:28:47] increase in this coefficient. When the pension is PLN 3,000
[00:28:51] gross, and the family pension is PLN 2,400.
[00:28:54] And it is precisely the pension that is paid in full,
[00:28:57] now we receive 15% of the family pension,
[00:29:00] i.e. PLN 360. The total payment is
[00:29:04] therefore PLN 3,360 gross. From January
[00:29:08] 1, 2027, the coefficient will increase from
[00:29:11] 15% to 25%, so
[00:29:14] from a benefit of PLN 2,400
[00:29:17] gross, it will be PLN 600, i.e. PLN 240
[00:29:20] gross more per month. The total
[00:29:24] payment will therefore be PLN 3,600, which
[00:29:27] is PLN 240 more per month, i.e.
[00:29:30] PLN 2,880.
[00:30:03] they take care of, for example, children, which means
[00:30:06] that
[00:30:10] the amount of a woman's pension
[00:30:12] is significantly lower, this
[00:30:15] means that women receive significantly lower pensions than
[00:30:19] men. ZUS data shows that over 70% of men
[00:30:23] receive benefits higher than PLN 4,000
[00:30:26] gross, which is almost twice as much as in the case
[00:30:29] of women, an even greater disparity due to... pay
[00:30:32] we have in the group of seniors receiving over PLN 5,000
[00:30:36] gross, men with such a pension account for over
[00:30:39] 50%, women only
[00:30:41] 20%. The average pension for men after the March
[00:30:45] valorization is over PLN 5,312
[00:30:48] gross, in the case of women over
[00:30:50] PLN 3,662 gross, this is much below
[00:30:54] the average pension, which after the March valorization is approximately
[00:30:58] PLN 4,324
[00:31:00] gross, it is... on average even well
[00:31:04] over PLN 100 lower than a man's
[00:31:08] average pension at
[00:31:11] this moment, by introducing such an instrument as
[00:31:15] the Widow's Pension, it allows or enables to obtain
[00:31:19] additional income. Of course, not every senior
[00:31:22] can apply for a widow's pension. The most important criterion is
[00:31:26] the amount of both benefits, which cannot exceed three times
[00:31:29] the lowest pension. The lowest
[00:31:32] pension is over PLN 1,978
[00:31:35] gross, so the upper limit is a little over
[00:31:39] PLN 5,935
[00:31:41] gross per month. If the sum of benefits exceeds this threshold,
[00:31:45] the payment will be reduced by the amount by which the limit was exceeded.
[00:31:49] A senior who has not previously applied for a widow's pension must submit
[00:31:52] an appropriate application to ZUS. The application can be submitted either
[00:31:56] in traditional paper form at customer service
[00:31:59] centers, which I strongly encourage, if any