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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.

An analysis by the FD shows that large ICT projects by the Dutch government are still seriously overrunning: cost overruns amount to an average of 36% and the average overrun is 37%. The FD looked at 125 large projects for which the original budget was 2.5 billion euros and the expected costs have now risen to 3.5 billion.

Almost a third of the elderly feel lonely. For social contact, elderly people are increasingly dependent on family and their immediate surroundings. Good means of communication and better contact between generations can help combat loneliness. The Compaan is a communication aid that is tailored to the needs and possibilities of the elderly. Reactions were positive, but sales did not really take off.

The aim of the MEE Samen project is to use social networks to strengthen an organisation's care. An attempt was made to find an organisation that was willing to embark on the experiment of using social networks (in a different way). Unfortunately, this was not successful. There were positive reactions, but it was seen as something interesting for the long term and not for now. Time, money and the unfamiliarity of working with social networks were important barriers.