Ideal Bite

What I learned on this morning's 10-minute BART ride to work (thanks, Economist):

Later this month, some Switzerland-based "adventurers" (God bless rich people with lots of time on their hands, BTW) are unveiling a new solar plane prototype that, assuming it works, will be the model for the first solar plane to fly around the world.

Just a few years ago the solar technology wasn't good enough - it couldn't harness and store enough of the sun's energy to make this kind of attempt. Makes me wonder how efficient solar panels could be if we'd funneled some of the money used to create, oh, I don't know, the new F-22 Raptor fighter jet (cost so far: $65 billion) into green energy development.

-Toshio…off to my next adventure…

From DT