This month, in the Mojave Desert, a company called BrightSource plans to break ground on a revolutionary new type of solar power plant.

WHITEHOUSE: Weekly Address: Solar Power & a Clean Energy Economy

In 1997 at Black Rock Desert, Nevada, he drove Thrust SSC to become the first person to break the sound barrier in a car and set the existing land-speed record of 763mph.

ECONOMIST: The land-speed record