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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.

Facebook began a project called Aquila in 2014. The plan was to provide Internet to sparsely populated areas in Africa using drones that would fly on solar power. This way, Facebook could also get more users. Unfortunately, the plan turned out to be more complex than previously thought and the project has since been discontinued.

People who have been in contact with a person infected with the coronavirus could be warned via an app. The Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport was to choose the best app from 7 candidates. Unfortunately, all apps turned out to be unsuitable. There were shortcomings in terms of privacy and it was also not clear what exactly the app should be able to do.

Until five years ago, Blauwestad was considered a failed project. The idea was to turn an area of farmland into a lake with villas where wealthy Randstadites would buy a house. It was difficult to convince the farmers to sell their land and, due to the economic crisis in 2008, few houses were sold. It all seemed to come to nothing, but in recent years a huge number of houses were suddenly purchased in Blauwestad.