Day February 18, 2008

Solar power in space

Japan is working on a plan to capture solar rays in space then beam it to land via laser beam. Hmmm. How much power would be lost in transmission? How would you insure that no errant planes strayed into the…

Living it up at the Hotel Freeze Your Fingers

The Icehotel has meter-thick ice walls and is composed entirely from ice. It is beautiful, unique, and really freaking cold at night. However, they do have heated rooms in normal buildings too. While it might be fun to try the…

The perils of sprinting in a marathon

It’s pretty clear now that the Hillary campaign wasn’t prepared with a Plan B if its strategy for a Super Tuesday knockout punch didn’t work. Now comes a report that the campaign only recently learned that her “firewall” state of…