Reports on Pro12's ambitions for North America have indicated Houston and Vancouver as potential locations for teams.
Nasa's senior photographer has said that he often takes days scouting out potential locations for taking pictures from.
Two sites close to the Lake District National Park have been listed as potential locations for a new generation of nuclear power plants by the government today.
No doubt panicky MoD planners have turned to the original research which looked into potential locations for Polaris, Trident's predecessor, half a century ago.
That technology greatly expands potential locations for offshore wind farms, which have been fixed into the seabed, limiting their location to shallow waters.
Programme-makers scouting potential locations for another series of the controversial programme in Stockton-on-Tees, and a separate documentary with a working title Immigration Street in Southampton, have faced opposition from politicians and community leaders.
There are other possibilities for planned development in the area, and the city is full of other potential locations for an Olympic stadium should New York be selected by the International Olympic Committee.
But potential locations for solar thermal plants, which use the sun's heat to make steam and then electricity, are far more limited; if the plants are cooled by water, there is space for only about 18 gigawatts, the study said.
The agency identified an additional 19 million acres of public lands in California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico as potential locations for solar energy projects that could win rapid federal approval.
They also sent agents to Mexico to scout potential locations for the film, and began screen-testing actors, including a young, unknown Greek actor called Georges Corraface, for the role of Nostromo.
With the nonprofit organization Trust for Public Land, the group last year issued a report, the Harlem River Greenway Vision, with ideas for better access and potential locations for new parkland.
