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With biomass plants, the government wanted to ensure that the climate targets would be met. The government set aside 10 billion euros for the construction of 628 biomass plants. Objections to the biomass plants soon arose: they would not be as CO2-neutral as was assumed and there would be more useful ways to use the biomass.

In 1905, the popsicle was invented by eleven-year-old Frank Epperson. He made a drink with water and some soda powder that he stirred through with a stick. Because his mother told him to go to sleep, he left the drink. When he woke up the next morning, it had frozen and the drink with the stick in it was frozen too. This was the first popsicle.

Columbus was looking for a faster sailing route to the Dutch East Indies. He planned to sail there via the West. With the financial support of the Spanish Queen Isabella, his ships left for the West, but instead of finding a new route to the Dutch East Indies there, he found the undiscovered continent of America.

In 2008, the festival 'De Zee komt' (The sea is coming) was organised on the beach. Along a six-kilometre route, people could admire works of art that were intended to create awareness of the scope and consequences of climate change. Great efforts were made to realise the project. Unfortunately, the financing proved insufficient and the main organisations involved were not united.

Using a device, the ECN research center wanted to produce solar cells. The device could vaporize silicon onto solar cells, but unfortunately not with a density of the silicon that was high enough. As a result, the device lay gathering dust, until Christian Rood came across it and saw how useful the device could be for producing batteries.

Developing a good update does not always go smoothly. This went wrong for Windows 10, the Apple Homepod and Microsoft Office. The fact that everyone can configure their device according to their personal preferences makes each device unique, which makes it difficult to come up with an update that will not cause problems for all devices.