Renewable Engery in Guessing, Burgenland.

Scientists visit Guessing from all over the World

For us, a day out to go shopping, is usually to Oberwart or Guessing. Just to put it into context, we have about 400 villagers yet Guessing has close on 4000 and most of the major shops and Supermarkets.

Most likely you are sitting reading this and having a good laugh and I can understand that. But you know, when we get into Guessing or Oberwart, we do actually think of it as a big town. Once you are in a Shopping Mall, it all seems similar to any other Mall. We can easily buy everything we need and want and the items we cannot get in Guessing are easy to order online.

There is one ( of many ) amazing fact about Guessing. It has created and developed an eco-friendly method to cover most of its own renewable engery. When you read how this came about, you can only be impressed. A small place, that used to be one of the poorest in Austria has turned itself, in the space of 20 years, into the envy of the World !

Visitors, scientist and VIP's come from all over the world, to see this " green " marvel and how they can copy this process. Last year, even a King of an African Country visited with his entourage of many.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has also been a few times to tour the facilities. But as he grew up just down the road ( in Graz ), I imagine that he also likes visiting his childhood " neighbourhood ".
The various radio DJ's often sound the " Arnie " alert on the radio. People are proud of him, and always try and speak to him or get his Autograph. I know that I get rather excited when I hear the alert and often wonder when I see a fancy foreign car, if he might be driving in it.

Who knew, that by moving to a tiny village in Burgenland, I would be slap-bang in the middle of some of those famous people, whom I only read about in Newspapers and Magazines...

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