Capturing millenium sun rays If you think you can develop a
device to capture the rays of the millenium's first sunrise,
Australian and New Zealand scientists want to hear from you. The
scientists from the University of Wollongong and New Zealand's
Massey University have organised a group of international solar
experts to meet for sunrise on January 1 2000 in New Zealand. In
an event to be beamed by satellite to media around the world,
the team will use a machine they have created to capture the
rays as they appear over the horizon, creating a "memorial of
the event". But they don't want to do it on their own. They're
also calling on budding inventors to submit their own ideas for
devices. The winner will receive $5000 and his or her entry will
also be used at the dawn event. Dr Gordon Wallace, of the
Intelligent Polymer Research Institute at Wollongong University,
told the Lab the competition was aimed at creating a historic
record of the event and was open to anyone interested in solar
energy. An example of