Long-time readers may remember a piece I wrote two years ago on how Schleswig-Holstein sold their reliable diesel ferry for a song, spent €3.3 million for a new emissions-free solar ferry that doesn’t work and increased carbon emissions on top of it all.
Basically, the State Office for Coastal Protection in Schleswig-Holstein embarked upon a project some years ago to replace the Missunde II, an old diesel automobile ferry that connects the towns of Missunde and Brodersby…
…with the hypermodern superclever very progressive Missunde III, which runs entirely on solar power and also looks like a poorly assembled Ikea coffee table:
Our climatists promptly sold the old Missunde II for €17,000, but then they realised that the Missunde III didn’t really work. Its large overhead solar panels acted like a sail in stiff winds, she had trouble handling the currents of the Schlei and she was too heavy for her guidance cables and thus had trouble mooring at the dock. While authorities tinkered with their retard prestige project, all commuters between Missunde and Brodersby had to take 30km detours across the nearest bridge and so this brave effort to further the green economy of Schleswig-Holstein ended up actually increasing carbon emissions.
With no solution in sight and the locals up in arms, the Office for Coastal Protection before long went limping back to the buyer of the decommissioned Missunde II, who agreed to sell the old ferry he had bought for €17,000 back to them for €100,000.
That was the state of play in September 2024. Since then, Schleswig-Holstein has sunk more money into repairing the old Missunde II and into retrofitting the Missunde III – all for nothing. Since last weekend, Missunde III has actually been in service, but she still can’t reliably moor and, a full €6.5 million later, authorities have finally given up. The Missunde III will be retired as soon as the old diesel-powered Missunde II can be made inlet-worthy again.
Renowned climatist idiot Daniel Günther, the faintly hydrocephalic Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein…
…has nevertheless spoken vaguely of retrofitting the diesel Missunde II with an electric drive: “We are working to ensure that it has a propulsion system that meets the criteria for climate and environmental protection.” As Apollo News reports, precisely such a retrofit was what Schleswig-Holstein considered doing all the way back in 2019 – before discovering that it would be about as expensive as buying a new all-electric ferry, and then opting to build a vastly larger and much more expensive ferry, just because.
Nobody knows what will become of the entirely useless, enormously expensive zero-emissions Missunde III, although Günther has promised that “A solution will be found.”
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This one just never gets old 🤣
Just looking at Daniel Günther you can see it in his face, a big beaming empty smile and a big old empty skull above his eyes!
Make him personally pay for the whole of this debacle, that’ll wipe the nauseating grin of his face
Indeed, the lights are (just about) on, but there’s no one in.
Cheered me up today. Thanks
Can be relied on for his cheery Schadenfreude!
I. Love. Eugyppius!
So do I he’s brilliant and funny.
I’m sure the ferry could be part of a very large museum full of failed “green” technology alongside the electric busses in Oslo that don’t work in low temperatures, the hydrogen powered buses in Hull that can’t be used because there isn’t a reliable supply of hydrogen and numerous other exhibits.
My personal favourite are the backpacks attached to cows who then have a tube stuck up their arse to collect their farts which are then used as biogas.
http://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-2606956/Now-THATS-wind-power-Cows-wear-BACKPACKS-capture-emissions-miniature-power-stations.html
What on earth has happened to the Germans?
In the space of less than a century they’ve gone from being a country overflowing with great engineers to one full of blithering idiots.
Have they been putting something in their water?
Its happened all over Europe.
It’s called the EU.
No, the Germans make everything even worse for themselves so it is quite funny given how they are often such arrogant c*nts and deserve some schadenfreude. I wonder what they call that in German.
One thing they put in the water was this vanity project solar ferry.
whats always telling in these situations is just these people are so keen to double down on their stupidity!
They won’t find a use for it because it’s a single use, utterly useless failure, not even fit for scrap because it’s made of mostly unrecyclable crap.