Frickenhausen!

Is that one BIG ball to play with.

Having discovered in yesterdays flood that my two pairs of wellies have holes (luckily not the left black ones and the right green ones!), and:
- wanting to make up for the lack of a decent walk
- needing chicken feed

set off for Erkheim but:
- Erkheim also had lots of water
- most of the surrounding land is planted with maize for "biogas"
- maize is skyscraper high thanks to all the rain
- maize is the favourite hideout for wild boar
- Luna has a great nose and would love to hunt boars
- wild boar mums with young ones are not friendly

I decided on going a bit further up a hill where there would be little maize.
So ended up in Frickenhausen where there is:

- a biogas unit (Anaerobic digestion plant)
- loads of maize
- loads of forest
- even better for wild boars is maize next to forest

Oh well, at least it was dry-ish. Was pleased to get back in the steamy humid car after the walk with all limbs in tact. Also pleased to get away from the strange unnatural smell around the plant.

I just wish these biogas plants were fed with refuse (as originally planned) and that the countryside wasn't being monocultured with maize. Renewables however need to be supported in general. I think Germany is now producing around 30% of it's electricity with renewables, sadly though most of the rest with "brown coal" (lignite) whose production is much worse than maize - almost makes nuclear fuel harmless.