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Submission + - US pays $2B for for 500MW of solar power (networkworld.com)

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coondoggie

on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @11:13AM

coondoggie writes: "The US Department of Energy today said it was conditionally committing $2 billion to develop two concentrating solar power projects that it says will offer 500 megawatts of power combined, effectively doubling the nation's currently installed capacity of that type of power. Concentrated solar systems typically use parabolic mirrors to collect solar energy."

Comment prior art everywhere (Score 2, Informative) 120

by sciasbat on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @05:32PM (#33817894) Attached to: Facebook Patents Location Social Networking

This is patent is so silly that prior art can be found anywhere. For example XMPP folks have specs initially published in 2003 describing the same exact scenario:

http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0080.html (User Location)

This document defines a format for capturing data about an entity's geographical location (geoloc). The format defined herein can describe most earthbound geographical locations, especially locations that may change fairly frequently. Potential uses for this approach include:

Publishing location information to a set of subscribers.
Querying another entity for its location.
Sending location information to another entity.
Attaching location information to presence.
Geographical location is captured in terms of Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates as well as civil location (city, street, building, etc.).

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