Israel Active

In a few months, Israel’s BrightSource expects to turn on its 377-megawatt solar thermal farm in the California desert. At about the same time, it will begin work on a 121-megawatt solar thermal energy plant in Israel’s Negev Desert.

The Pentagon has announced that Israel’s Elbit, is to be the sole supplier of helmet mounted display systems (HDMS) for all 4,000 F35 stealth aircraft. The deal is worth more than $1 billion over 10 years. Already 100 F35 pilots have tested and approved the new helmet.

Buckle up your seat belt and watch a team of 25 Israel Technion Institute students build a Formula SAE racecar and compete in Italy. The team won first place worldwide out of all newcomer teams. Part of the "New Product Design" course in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

Israel’s Frutarom is truly a global innovator. It develops and sells flavors and ingredients for food, beverage, supplement and pharma health industries in 140 countries. Its 31 R&D labs include eco-friendly Wedenswil in Switzerland where its biogas equipment has been upgraded to produce 2,600,000 kWh of energy per year.

Dozens of senior representatives of the international biofuel industry are visiting Israel this week for the first international biological fuels conference, the Agro-Energy Nexus Summit, in Herzlyia. Israeli companies are already leading this growing market in several areas.

(Thanks to Israel21c) Hundreds of 3D models printed by Stratasys, the Israeli-American manufacturer of 3D printers, are being displayed in a free exhibition, “3D: Printing the Future.” at London’s Science museum.

If a city wants to change its parking policies then this simulator from a team of Tel Aviv University researchers will help understand how these changes will affect motorists’ demand and behaviour.

Here is an opportunity to view CBN’s excellent series by Gordon Robertson about Israel's remarkable innovation and ingenuity to produce breakthroughs in products and processes that affect the way we live our every day lives. The 5 parts feature Agriculture, Water, Medicine, Clean & Green and Technology.

The Israeli-developed phone, called Project Ray, vocalises any icon or name touched by a sliding finger and activates it only when the finger is lifted. It has a special GPS for the blind and an audiobook interface to Israel’s Central Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Handicapped.

I reported in January the discovery by Hebrew University scientists of the natural, non-toxic pesticide made from the yeast growing on strawberry leaves. Now Israel’s agro-tech giant Makhteshim Agan is working with HU’s commercial company Yissum to develop the bio-control agent.