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Breeding Silicon and Solar Power in the Middle of the Desert
Growing Silicon in the Sahara See those dark spots on the dune? That's silicon sprouting (not really). Luca Galuzzi via WikimediaThe forbidding sands of the Sahara might seem an unusual place for...
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A 3-D Printer That Uses the Sun to Create Glass Objects Out of Sand
On Balance To keep the giant lens from tipping the whole printer over, Kayser filled water bottles with sand and affixed them to the arms near the solar panels as counterweights Amos Field Reid When...
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How Robots Will Do the Heavy Lifting in the Sahara and Antarctica
Building in the Sahara Graham Murdoch Already under construction, these two projects are saving humans from having to work in two of the most inhospitable environments on the planet: the Sahara...
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BigPic: From Above, These Saharan Mountains Look Like Abstract Art
The Tibesti Mountains, Chad ESA At ground level the Sahara desert often seems somewhat monochromatic, but from above that picture changes completely. The Tibesti Miountains, captured above by the...
View ArticleBreeding Silicon and Solar Power in the Middle of the Desert
The forbidding sands of the Sahara might seem an unusual place for farming. But if you’re farming silicon to make solar panels, the conditions in the Sahara are more or less optimal. At least, that’s...
View ArticleA 3-D Printer That Uses the Sun to Create Glass Objects Out of Sand
When design student Markus Kayser wanted to test his sun-powered, sand-fed 3-D printer, he knew the gray skies outside his London apartment wouldn't do. So he shipped the…
View ArticleHow Robots Will Do the Heavy Lifting in the Sahara and Antarctica
Already under construction, these two projects are saving humans from having to work in two of the most inhospitable environments on the planet: the Sahara Desert, and the South Pole in Antarctica.
View ArticleBigPic: From Above, These Saharan Mountains Look Like Abstract Art
At ground level the Sahara desert often seems somewhat monochromatic, but from above that picture changes completely. The Tibesti Miountains, captured above by the European Space Agency's Envisat, are...
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