Since I read this article in June, I have been keeping up with the increasingly important sunspot spotting event happening globally. The picture above shows the sun at its most active in 2001, potentially the most active period for sunspots in the past 1000 years. Dark spots, some as large as 50,000 miles in diameter, [...]
This is pretty impressive, although from what I understand it would take a long time to animate. But still… More here
Companies in California announced that they will build two new solar plants which will produce 12 times the electricity currently coming from solar in California. The plants will produce 800 megawatts which is about the size of a small/medium sized coal plant. Sounds great right? Well the plants will cover 12.5 square miles or 20.12 [...]
Virgin Galactic showed off its new mothership today (above), which is called WhiteKnightTwo. Wired is doing a good job of showing the stuff that only VIPs and connected press get to see. I like this shot: Here is a good BBC report too.
Poor Sony. So misguided. Sony CEO Howard Stringer has described the Nintendo Wii merely a “nice gaming device” and something of a novelty. “I’ve played a Nintendo Wii,” Bloomberg reports Mr Stringer telling delegates at a business conference in California last week. “I don’t see it as a competitor. It’s more of an expensive niche [...]
