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It's 92 miles on a side, or 92x92=8464 square miles.

640 acres per square mile and the Nevada plant is 275 acres, so that's 2.3272 plants per square mile.

So we need 2.3272x8464=19698 of those plants, just like the original post said.

This article says the Nevada One plant cost $250 million to build: http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/7150
$250 million times 19,698 gives just under $5 trillion dollars in construction costs. Now at some point economies of scale will kick in and save us money, and by most accounts maintaining the solar plant is cheaper than constantly paying for more coal or nuclear fuel. But no matter how you slice it, that's a lot of money.

5 seconds on google: http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/6332

While I would like to point out this is not about critical flight control systems (where I doubt any Linux would be certified as it costs a lot to be) and in-flight entertainment machines are OK to crash sometimes, the specific functionality is, probably, a win for Linux distros.

Photo and update here:Ford Fusion Hydrogen 999, Land Speed Record

Fermentation, then distillation takes a lot of time and energy to make alcohol type fuel that does not have as much energy per gallon as gasoline.

We are much better off following through with the research to convert fructose to 2,5 Dimethylfuran which is a totally chemical process which can be run as a production without waiting for microbes to ferment something to 5% concentration, then distilling to 90%, then using some other drying process to get to 99%

DMF also has more energy per gallon than ethanol

http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/7204

"I am doubtless one of the reasons that Xara LX exists at all" You, and a number people including me who have been begging Xara to start porting to GNU/Linux for years and years. I even offered my help several times :-). I bought Xara 1.5, bought Xara 2.0 and yes even bought Xara Xtreme several months ago :-D. "I dearly, sorely wish that Xara would figure out how to get SVG support into Xara. " Xara is supporting ( http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/1468 ) a project called Uber-converter ^H^H^H^H... VectorSection( http://scratchcomputing.com/projects/vectorsection / ). I think having one universal conversion program (or better: set of programs) is the way to go. xar -> crs -> svg seems currently a possible path. No idea how good this works, haven't tried it yet.

http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/4124

Sorry.

Here's some articles with more information:

TMCnet
InformationWeek
TechNews

I really wish it was more along the lines of 731 million dollars, which hynix memory is paying for its price fixing.

I take it that you haven't heard the news: It's already being created!

http://www.urge.com/

http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/1924

In an article by Steve Johnson in the Chicago Tribune's online news-site http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/review s/critics/chi-0512210012dec21,1,423123.column?coll =chi-ent_critics-hed, Jason Hirschhorn, MTV Networks' chief digital officer said that they had talked to Apple about working together on Music and Video properties from MTV's catalog and was quoted saying:

"the problem is Apple believes in a closed system. It's hard to see how MTV and our brand work within that"

Isn't this odd: that the company wanting everyone to "Think Differently" changes it's corporate mantra to be "Think Capitalistically" or "Think Monopolistically" when it comes to portable media devices?

WhoWouldaThough?

--ScottKin

AVG is good, but I vote clamwin. It seems every bit as effective as the others and it plays real nice with winpooch. Winpooch is a free antispyware detector that checks for hooking (the registry scanning isn't great, but if you have active spyware, winpooch will get it).

As a bonus both of them are open source.

Parent needs to be modded up more it is the most coherent comment on the topic posted so far. One minor nit pick - a 65nm\45nm fab costs about $3.5billion see here for the investment required for Intel's Fab 28 in Israel. That's an increase of $1.5 billion on the cost of the existing 90nm\65nm Intel Fab 24 in Ireland .