Month: December 2014

Searching for a windmill in Google Streetview

Mid­-February this year, I joined the startup Vandebron as a copywriter, two months before its launch. The small team was working at full speed to meet the deadline for launching the world’s first online peer­2­peer energy marketplace. In joining I had little time to learn, so I figured out the things I didn’t fully understand […]

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Driver Spotlight: Fernand Gabriel

In the night of August 3, 1914, German troops invaded Belgium, bringing an end to the first era of motor racing that had started in 1894. An epoch of ‘horseless carriages’ powered by petrol, kerosene, steam or electricity. Experimental cars balancing on thin and flimsy tyres, lacking suspension, stopping power or protection against the elements. […]

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