Next week, if all goes according to plan, a small mountain of snow will be melted, repeatedly sterilised and then injected in a high-pressure stream of near-boiling water to cleara bore-hole through the two miles of the ice-sheet.
The smoothness and clarity of the streaming video, powered by RealNetworks (nasdaq: RNWK - news - people ) software, can't hold a candle to a standard television broadcast, nor a decent Internet video stream on a PC, but it's clear that the technology for streaming video to phones is coming along.
Projects would need to have aclear public benefit, meet rigorous economic, technical, and environmental standards, and be backed by a dedicated revenue stream.