Elon Musk is a really indefatigable entrepreneur. In addition to being CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors he’s also chairman of SolarCity, an American company that designs and installs solar energy systems. Well, this week Silevo bought SolarCity, a manufacturer of high-efficiency solar panels, for $350 million. The idea behind this acquisition is to push further progress in the field of solar panels.
After some time, on a blog there are more and more articles and the older ones are at risk of being forgotten. Continuous news are essential because it’s true that success is determined by quality but quantity is also necessary because a rarely updated blog gives the impression of being abandoned. At the same time, the old articles are to be considered an asset to be exploited to the fullest.
The novel “Desolation Road” by Ian McDonald was published for the first time in 1988. It won the Locus Award for best novel of the year by a new author.
It’s been a long time since Mars has been terraformed but life on the red planet is not necessarily easy and the Earth is still overpopulated. Following a greenperson in the desert, Dr. Alimantando ends up founding a new city that, while drunk, called Desolation Road. City is a big word but over the years more and more people stop there, usually by accident, and someone ends up settling in that place not even registered.
Initially irrelevant in the history of the planet, Desolation Road becomes a place full of special people with the strangest stories. Over time, someone goes away but the ties with this strange city are difficult to cut, even when there are space-time anomalies. The history of the city ends up becoming important in a tumultuous period for Mars from the political and social point of view.
