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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.

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.

Ford wilde naast de bestaande submerken Mercury en Lincoln een nieuw submerk oprichten: Ford Edsel. Na grondig marktonderzoek en een grote campagne werden zeven modellen middenklasse-auto’s op de markt gebracht. Helaas werden er maar weinig auto’s van Edsel verkocht. Het publiek vond de auto’s niet mooi en duurzaam genoeg en er zaten productiefouten in. Ook had Edsel niet genoeg loyaliteit van klanten.