How Schleswig-Holstein sold their reliable diesel ferry for a song, spent 3.3 million Euro for a new emissions-free solar ferry that doesn't work, & increased carbon emissions on top of it all
eugyppius
Sep 30, 2024
A lot is happening right now, and not just in Lebanon.
In good news, the right-populist Freedom Party in Austria has come out on top in yesterday’s elections, winning an incredible 29.2% of the vote. In not-so-good news (but as I predicted), the state constitutional court in Thüringen ruled in favour of the CDU last Friday. The other parties were able to change the procedural rules in the Thuringian parliament and exclude the AfD not only from the office of president, but also from the entire executive committee of the Landtag. The “democratic” parties have also altered procedural rules to reduce AfD representation on parliamentary committees, effectively preventing the strongest party in the Landtag from exercising their blocking minority there.
But, I have just returned from the last of my autumn travels, and I need a few days to collect my thoughts before I write about any of that. I propose to ease into the blogging week instead with a small farcical fable about e-mobility and the wondrous solar-powered future that awaits us.
For this tale we must go to Schleswig-Holstein – that northern land of bays, fjords, cliffs, islands, and stiff breezes, just south of the Danish border. Specifically, we must travel to Missunde, a small town on the Schwansen peninsula. Missunde is right next to another town called Brodersby, on the opposing Angeln peninsula. Between Brodersby on the one hand, and Missunde on the other hand, is the Schlei, which you might mistake for a river but which is actually an inlet of the Baltic Sea.
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