Did you hear the one about the Electric Ferry...? 😂😂

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[ShadowAce]

This is the story about how the Missunde 3, an electric ferry, replaced the Missunde 2, a polluting, old fashioned diesel ferry, in Germany.

[NonValueAdded]

Cliff notes? Why give liberal YouTube the traffic.

[butlerweave]

Green now means SCAM

[heartwood]

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/09/30/the-green-new-folly-how-virtue-signaling-killed-a-ferry-and-wasted-millions/

For those who don’t watch YouTube or videos.

I’m imagining battery fire on a ferry.

50 yards is potentially a long way to swim. If you manage to get to the water.

[T.B. Yoits]

I must be missing something. That waterway looks so narrow that the ferry could be a cable ferry with diesel or electric motors on both shorelines to pull the cables back and forth.

Cable ferries have been in use in many other places for decades.

[MCF]

That was great! Thanks for posting.

[PAR35]

That waterway looks so narrow that the ferry could be a cable ferry with diesel or electric motors on both shorelines to pull the cables back and forth.

If it was a cable ferry, you could run one charged cable and pull the power off it it with a trolley and have electric thrusters on the boat. Need some battery backup for when the trolley jumps off the wire. (Actually it would probably use a pantograph like a train instead of an electric trolley wheel.)

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

For those who either read German or whose browser offers a translation:

Millionen-Debakel an der Ostsee: Solarfähre schafft es nicht ans andere Ufer – Anwohner empört Merkur, Stand:06.10.2024.

Title in English is: "Million-dollar debacle on the Baltic Sea: Solar ferry doesn't make it to the other shore - residents outraged."

German-language press is reporting this across Germany and Austria, ridiculing the political decisions.

Other English-languagereports:

About that diesel ferry

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

[C210N]

Cable ferries have been in use in many other places for decades.

The main drawback of cable ferries is that a good sharpshooter can take them out. Just ask Josey Wales.

[Charles Martel]

That’s an inlet from the Baltic Sea, so a cable pull design may be impractical - probably too much boat traffic crossing the ferry’s path.

[Chicory]

10 or 15 years ago when Germany was preening itself on being green, I ran across articles detailing the pollution caused by mining the necessary metals...

So ironic and hypocritical.

[antidemoncrat]

Also more Government control to “SAVE THE PLANET”.

[TexasGator]

In the video you can see the guiding cables and pontoons.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember cable ferries that used the stream current to move the ferry across the river. No outside power needed except the ferryman making adjustments to the ferry cables.

[TexasGator]

Reaction ferries. Some still operating.

[chajin]

(Actually it would probably use a pantograph like a train instead of an electric trolley wheel.)

I was watching the 1963 Japanese film High and Low. One of the settings is at Kamakura beach, where the kidnapper's hideout was, as well as the famous-to-Japan Enoshima Line, a single-car trolley line connecting Kamakura to Enoshima Island. In the dialogue was a reference to the difference between single-wire and pantograph trolleys:

"A trolley runs near the hideout."

"Three different trolley lines run through Kamakura. Maybe a specialist can tell which streetcar it is...."

"An Enoshima trolley?"

"Absolutely. l live near there. I've heard that sound a million times. It's an old single-wire trolley the others are all pantograph. Only the Enoshima line uses those old lines."

Unfortunately I can't find any photos of the Enoden as a single wire; it's been pantograph for at least the last 50 years.

[catnipman]

thanks for the link ...

[jackibutterfly]

"I must be missing something. That waterway looks so narrow...."

Why didn't they just build a bridge? Probably would have cost a heck of a lot less?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Is the power cord long enough to reach across the river?

[blueunicorn6]

All the citizens should be allowed one free kick to the donkeys of the bureaucrats who did this…..on tv.