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Fighting windmills and curious restraint

In literature, Don Quixote rode up against these windmills in La Mancha.(Bild: Lourdes Cardenal, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

Around six weeks before the referendum against wind power, which was initiated by the Carinthian opposition, party political supporters and opponents are positioning themselves, although some are very hesitant...

The battle of the famous literary character Don Quixote against the windmills in the Spanish region of La Mancha, because he sees them as monstrous giants, is only a side issue in the world's first modern novel. If you look at our current problems, such as inflation, global crises or demographic change, the wind power survey on January 12 seems similarly important.