Generating a third of US’s solar power
The 392-megawatt concentrating solar power (CSP) plant built by Israel’s BrightSource Energy is now delivering renewable energy to the California grid. The five-square-mile Ivanpah Solar Energy Generating System in the Mojave Desert is the largest plant of its kind in the world.
Golden sands
Israel’s Environmental Protection Minister Peretz has allocated NIS 2 million to keep Israel’s beaches clean. In addition to allowing for increased cleaning operations, the funds will serve to provide educational activities in schools, public relations campaigns and enforcement.
Dolphins adopt Israeli Mediterranean beach
Marine biologists and researchers have announced that Achziv’s Northern Israeli coastal beach is now an internationally recognized protected dolphin habitat. The dolphins enjoy Achziv Beach because of its sea cliff, which offers deep waters for the dolphins to feed in.
The ultimate in remote control
Watch how the gesture technology from Israel’s Pointgrab allows you to run applications on the Lenovo range of computers from up to 2 meters away, and in low lighting environments.
Israel’s active pen
Intel Corporation will integrate the pen and mini-touch technology of Kfar Saba based N-trig into its Educational Tablet, a touch-enabled device for use in the classroom.
Sorek goes live
As Israel prays for the end of its current drought, the new Sorek large-scale desalination plant has completed testing and is now fully operational. Its reverse osmosis membranes can produce 624,000 cubic meters of water a day - two-thirds of the combined output of the existing Ashkelon and Hadera facilities.
Israel is creating a water surplus using desalination
The above, plus this article explains why, despite current drought conditions throughout the Middle East, Israel is currently supplying ample water to all of its citizens – and (in future) possibly most of its immediate neighbors.
An end to all computer viruses?
Israeli startup Cyactive says it not only stops computer viruses already “in the wild” from causing damage, but also can beat most of them even before they are invented. Cyactive detects the core of any virus, because 98% of the code inside a new virus is copied from existing viruses.
Find your ring size
How do you order a ring for someone when you don’t know his or her ring size? The handy Israeli app Findmyringsize will tell you. Take an existing ring and hold it over the images on your smartphone or re-sized computer screen. Simple to use and you could make someone very happy.
What makes Israel a Start-up Nation?
(Thanks to BBCWatch) There was rare praise from the BBC, when its technology correspondent paid a visit to Israel. The report includes filmed items shown on BBC TV news.