The Danish media enthusiastically celebrated the successful landing of the Mars rover Perserverance (“Perseverance”) as a success for Danish technology. According to Danmarks Radio, the Danish high-tech company DTU Space developed a camera on one arm of the rover that can analyze the atomic structure of Mars rocks. This camera, called PIXL, is intended to search for traces of life on Mars.
Artificial energy island in the North Sea
Denmark has put on its seven-league boots in energy policy. An artificial energy island in the North Sea with initially 200 large wind turbines will produce three gigawatts of electricity, enough to meet the needs of around three million households. In a second expansion stage, the output is to be increased to ten gigawatts. That was decided by a large majority in the Copenhagen Parliament. Completion of the first stage is planned for 2030.
The project, which costs around 210 billion kroner (28.25 billion euros), is not only intended to help meet the Danish electricity needs from renewable sources alone and to achieve the climate target of reducing CO2 emissions by 70 percent by 2030 – but also Electricity from the island is also to be delivered to other countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. Existing offshore wind farms should also be able to conduct electricity to this island in order to bundle the energy here. Excess wind power is to be converted into hydrogen on site, and then into climate-neutral “green” fuel for trucks and aircraft. A comparable smaller energy island is to be built on a reef in the Baltic Sea south of Bornholm.
Return of the handball superstar
Denmark’s handball fans cheer. Because one of the superstars of the 2021 world championship team, Mikkel Hansen, will return to Denmark in 2022. Aalborg handball club has signed the 33-year-old, who is currently playing for Paris Saint Germain. Hansen was one of the guarantors of the Danish victories at the handball world championship in late January / early February in Egypt and a member of the teams that became Olympic champions in 2008 and world champions in 2011.
Buying shares instead of parties and trips
The corona pandemic with lockdowns and almost worldwide travel restrictions has triggered a stock boom among young people in Denmark: Because they cannot spend their money on trips, going to restaurants and concerts or having fun and party. And because some financial institutions often charge negative interest rates for their savings – recently from 100,000 kroner (13,450 euros) – more and more Danes under 40 are investing the money they have saved in equity funds, reports Danmarks Radio after a survey of leading fund companies.
Even among young people up to the age of 19, the number of stock savers has more than doubled over the past year. There was a real boom with an increase of 178 percent in the age group of 20 to 29 year olds, followed by 138 percent among 30 to 39 year olds. Fund companies believe that easy access to funds via the Internet has contributed to this rapid increase.
From Rüdiger Wenzel
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