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FWD:Latest Ed. of Industrial Physicist online.



8.2.1 ILLUMINATING NEW TERRITORY WITH LIDAR, by Jennifer Ouellette

Light detection and ranging (lidar) has been around since the 1960s, but
advances in other
technologies recently have enabled its use in a wide variety of research
and commercial
applications.
http://www.tipmagazine.com/tip/INPHFA/vol-8/iss-2/p16.pdf

8.2.2 SOLAR POWER FROM THE MOON, by David Criswell

Solar-power stations constructed on the moon from common lunar materials
could beam clean,
safe, low-cost commercial electric energy to Earth via 12-cm microwaves.

http://www.tipmagazine.com/tip/INPHFA/vol-8/iss-2/p12.pdf

8.2.3 ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND QUESTIONS, by Joe Przechocki

C. P. Yang got interested in science after reading the banned book,
100,000 Questions, during
the Cultural Revolution in China. Now he heads OriginLab, which supplies
scientific graphics
and analysis software worldwide..
http://www.tipmagazine.com/tip/INPHFA/vol-8/iss-2/p20.pdf

8.2. 4 A RICE-GRAIN-SIZED MOTOR, by Eric Lerner

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have produced a
piezoelectric motor with enough
power to propel tiny instruments through the internal tracts of the
human body.
http://www.tipmagazine.com/tip/INPHFA/vol-8/iss-2/p8.pdf

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