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While Norway is to be admired I find it difficult to see their experience as applicable to the rest of the world when they have a 1.19 Trillion wealth fund which equates to over 22 million per person in Norway.

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I don't think the wealth fund has much to do with this: it doesn't seem like it's significantly more expensive than other options, and indeed the video implies it's a cost savings over diesel. I do agree that this isn't really a general purpose solution, as it's not feasible on wide or busy waterways. What makes it work for Norway is that they've got a lot of little inhabited islands.

Washington State Ferries are working on electrification as well. If it works near plan, it should be an operational cost savings, and hopefully that'll pay for the capital costs.

Also, electric service upgrades should increase my home utility reliability, so that's nice for people on the island I live on.

Supposed to be less noisy which should be nice for aquatic life.

I think most electric crossings are fjord crossings, not island connections. Typically 2-6 kilometers.

It’s actually $220,000 pr person.

You can watch the live value there: https://www.nbim.no/

America invented the airplane then went to the moon. We started every large tech company. We essentially created or popularized everything that defines the modern era.

Excuses are why infrastructure and politics here sucks. We should bully the federal government for their failure here, just like Biden bullied LGA into renovating

Well, we also have a significant fraction of the population who think that the federal government does too much as it is. Even during the moonshot, there was a lot of pushback on the federal spending on the project.

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