In our weekly recap on Sunday, we, as editors, look back at the past seven days. We do this at the suggestion of our cartoonist Albert Jan Rasker. He chooses a subject, makes a drawing, and we take it from there. If you also want to receive it every Sunday morning, just subscribe here.
The cartoon was based on this interesting article: Every year, approximately 50,000 birds die in the Netherlands because they fly into a wind turbine. This must and can be done differently. By painting them black.
I see a windmill, and I want it painted bla-a-a-a-ack… No colors anymore, I want them to turn bla-a-a-a-ack! Since 90% of the readers have a tune in their heads right now, we’ll just start this weekly letter right off with a link to Spotify. Be sure to put this song on 🎶 as you read on.Â
Albert Jan Rasker also immediately got this 1966 classic in his head when he read the story about the initiative to paint windmill blades black. The goal? Less bird mortality – thus, another argument against the construction of wind turbines on land and sea disappears. Reason enough for our cartoonist to launch a bird festival.For us, it’s only beautiful. Anything that can help get useful innovations better accepted are more than welcome. And as long as we haven’t reached all the goals, we’ll keep paying attention to them.
🎶 I wanna see it painted, painted, painted. Painted black, yeah! 🎶
Then the weekly overview. Below is a small selection of our lavish offerings from last week. Don’t fancy this editorial selection? All good; here is the complete overview of last week.
| Big ambitions for imec.istart.nl, after a year of the accelerator program and a new investment fund to support it As Novel-T’s CEO and imec.istart’s program director, Jaap Beernink and Sven de Cleyn can share some of the experiences of the first year of the imec-istart.nl accelerator. With a new 12 million euro fund, they can even do more for startups. |
| Germany allocates €6.3 billion for 930,000 more charging stations by 2030 – Germany wants to ramp up the number of charging stations for E-cars from 70,000 today to 1 million by 2030. To achieve this, a lot of money is needed. |
| ‘Turn climate nuisance into opportunities’ – As soon as a period of warm weather or a heat wave sets in, journalists will hop on the phone to professor Sanda Lenzholzer. With a reason. |
| Underwater microphones and naval ships against threat of attacks on North Sea energy islands – Denmark and the Netherlands had plans for it. But it is the Belgians who are grabbing the scoop by building the world’s first artificial energy island in the North Sea. But with this achievement also comes responsibility – and some new threats. |
| A new life for old vaulting poles – Via a detour, Rens Blom, former Dutch and world pole vault champion, is back in his sport. His new mission is sustainability-related. |
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