Random Linkage 2008-Dec-08 PM
- Tesla, all-electric roadster company, is assuring people it will receive $200M loan from government to cover cost of manufacturing facility due to break ground mid-2009
Tesla sought a guarantee on loans for its sedan factory (then planned for New Mexico) by arguing that an affordable electric car could replace today’s gas-guzzling, emissions-belching vehicles, thus preventing greenhouse gas emissions. Congress authorized the program to guarantee up to $4 billion in February 2007, and later that year, the DOE invited 16 pre-applicants, including Tesla, from a pool of 143 to submit full applications.
- (video) How to land a 747 at San Francisco Int’l Airport
- (video) Pole dancing robots at gallery
Pole dancing robots, a giant 3D animated face and a customised MIG jet are among artworks on display at the MuTate London exhibition.
- I have just started using the Google Chrome web browser and am impressed. After reading the comic book adaptation, I’m even more impressed
- Spending time in the tunnels beneath Las Vegas, with the author of Beneath the Neon
This is one of the underground art galleries that I discovered down in the storm drains. Basically, you walk in about a half-mile in pitch dark, and you have artwork going down the walls that goes down for about a half-mile,
O’Brien says.
December 9th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
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