The solar-powered flight around the globe

*It's media bait, but I'm media, so what the heck. It's great.

*Solar cells are so weak compared to jet kerosene that this is sorta like a nonstop flight around the world powered only by the stray radiation from cellphone towers. But, hey, if somebody decides to build an expensive private airplane that can do that cellphone stunt in real life, I promise I'll blog that, too.

http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2010/04/features/the-solar-powered-flight-around-the-globe.aspx

*I will also blog the first manned submarine that can swim nonstop around the world powered only by ocean thermal energy conversion.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-04/submarine-runs-eternally-thermal-power-ocean-currents