25 Solar Gigawatts and much more

25 Solar Gigawatts and much more

Japan Plans a Moon Base by 2020, Built by Robots for Robots "America may have eighty sixed its moon base ambitions, but the Japanese have no plans to let perfectly good lunar real estate go to waste. The last big evolutions were variable valve timing and the switch to fuel injection from carburetors. Now a flurry of innovations to boost fuel efficiency is in the pipeline. One of them comes from a startup, Transonic Combustion, which claims its technology delivers fuel into the cylinder in a supercritical state essentially, a fourth state of matter (after solid, liquid, and gas) in which the liquid is heating above its boiling point at very high pressure."

Pentagon Chooses Two Companies to Build Flying Humvee "The race to build the world's first flying military jeep just moved a step closer to the finish line. The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected two companies to proceed with the next stage of its Transformer, known as TX a fully automated four person vehicle that can drive like a car and then take off and fly like an aircraft to avoid roadside bombs. Lockheed Martin and AAI Corp., a unit of Textron Systems, are currently in negotiations with DARPA for the first stage of the Transformer project, several industry sources told Popular Mechanics at a robotics conference here in Denver. Military, which would then have the capability to build your proposed vehicle and all the other competing designs in a generic fabrication facility?"

Less than a week to private space launch "In which an actual living person, instead of just the ashes of TV actors, will be launched into space. Here's a picture of the rocket and it's friend, the submarine."

BBC Streamed 5.3 Million Shows To iOS Devices, Just 6,000 To Android "Some interesting mobile iPlayer statistics came out of the BBC yesterday, revealing that the corporation streamed 5.3 million programmes to iOS enabled devices and just 6,400 to Android devices via its video on demand service."

Phone Numbers Are Dead, They Just Don't Know It Yet "Is it conceivable that one of our greatest inventions, the phone number, is about to face extinction? Just ask Mark Zuckerberg. Earlier this year, when asked if Facebook would be around in 100 years, as long as Ma Bell has been around, Zuckerberg responded, "I don't know. But I don't know how long telephones will be around for." Will they be around for ten more years? I'll go even further. It may not even take 5 years for the phone service, as we know it, to meet its demise."

The Paul Allen Suit: A Look at the Patents "Microsoft co founder Paul Allen's Interval Licensing is suing 11 companies, including tech giants Apple and Google, alleging patent infringement. Take flying saucers. How many of us realise that the reason they made headlines in 1947 was not because Kenneth Arnold thought he saw spaceships from another world; but simply because he reported objects travelling at "incredible speed"? Our local paper headlined it "Officials Skeptical of Report of 1200 Mile an Hour Nike Air Max Sale Object". The next day: "1200 MPH Flying Saucer Story Has Teller Up in Air". The initial Associated Press dispatch specifically has Arnold saying that "he could not hazard a guess as to what they were" and ends with him admitting, "It seems impossible, but there it is.""

Mars's mysterious elongated crater "The term 'patera' is used for deep, complex or irregularly shaped volcanic craters such as the Hadriaca Patera and Tyrrhena Patera at the north eastern margin of the Hellas impact basin. However, despite its name and the fact that it is positioned near volcanoes, the Nike Air Max Store actual origin of Orcus Patera remains unclear."

1.25 Gigawatts of Solar Thermal Power Approved in California in Past Two Days Will Double US Capacity "There've been multiple gigawatts of solar thermal power plants planned for various places in the California desert for some time, but finally some more of them are getting the approvals need so that construction can start: The US Bureau of Land Management has issued a final environmental impact statement for the 1,000 MW Blythe Solar Power Project; and the 250