salt flats

Student-designed Electric car sets world land speed record

October 7, 2011

Electric Blue

Students from Brigham Young University (BYU), are celebrating after setting a new land speed record for an electric car in the “E1″ (under 1,100 lbs/499 kg) class. The record of 155.8 mph (250.7 km/h) set by the “Electric Blue” streamliner at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

Land of Terror

May 9, 2011

SaharaThe image shows the extraordinary landscape of the Tanezrouft Basin, one of the most desolate parts of the Sahara desert, in south-central Algeria. The region is known as ‘land of terror’ because of its lack of water and vegetation.