This year our little private Fotohalbmarathon will take place not just in Berlin but anywhere in the world!
The date is now fixed to September 25th and you are welcome to take part and spread the word …
More infos at http://www.fotohalbmarathon.info
Honour & Glory – FIFA Women’s World Cup ’11
It’s been an exciting race for the first three places of this year’s football betting game. While Japan won the world cup in a crazy final with a 3-1 in the penalty shootout against the US, the winner of the betting game is … me :)
Congratz to all participants and especially to Ariane und Lisa for 2nd and 3rd place.
Sailing
The sailing season has started … at least for me it did on Troels’ boat yesterday afternoon.
We just went out for a little cruise passing the old Tuborg harbour and Hellerup beach. The weather was quite nice and I had my sea-sick pills, so everything was good ;)
Copenhagen under water
Last weekend we experienced an interplay of various weather conditions of the finest kind. While having visitors over the weekend we spend some time sun bathing at the beaches in the north of Sealand, but also witnessed the worst rain storm I have ever seen in Europe.
We had more than 40 mm of rain per hour for at least two hours … the city was completely drowned in water.
We have seen cars floating in ponds that filled up under bridges and thousands of basements got flooded quite badly. Also our institute suffered quite a lot, with some of the lecture halls flooded and some walls pushed inside in the server hall.
Fortunately our basement was spared …
As that was not bad enough, we had yet another heavy rain fall on Sunday … not quite as bad, but still it added up quite a bit …
Publication of the Month
This month’s publication, Batteries for Efficient Energy Extraction from a Water Salinity Difference, is about the generation of electricity from a water salinity difference. Already about two months old, but still quite interesting how one can use river and sea water to gain green/blue energy …