Avanzalia Solar now has a solar plant producing 13.8 MegaWatts of energy, making it the largest solar plant in the world.
However, at 36 hectares, it does take up a lot of space, pointing out one of the issues with using solar production on a truly large scale.
Google is backing the new $30 million X Prize for the first private team to put a robot on the moon.
SpaceX just got the nod from NASA’s safety board to move forward on building it’s Dragon vessel that will hopefully deliver cargo to the space station for NASA. And if it is successful, maybe even astronauts some day in between the gap between the shuttle’s retiring and NASA’s replacement.
This a very interesting defense of NASA by TCS Daily that asks readers to consider NASA as like a DARPA like institution that one invests in in order to receive interesting spin off technologies that drive other industries, not as, in and off itself, a way to get people into orbit.
The X-Prize Foundation will be announcing the largest cash prize to date, in the ‘tens of millions’ of dollars, for a secret goal that will be announced on the 13th.
Bigelow Aerospace had a $10 million dollar prize for the first person to orbit, I’d be curious to see if this is something similar, or if Bigelow and X-Prize have teamed up.