Questions of latitude, longitude, compass variation, and curvature of the Earth's surface could be safely ignored.
Instead, any man-made surface could be turned into a solar panel with films and paint.
It is, of course, a rugby ground and as a football pitch the surface could be better.
But Mr Mitchell was convinced that immense reserves trapped in shale rock deep beneath the surface could be freed.
Measuring the flow of heat energy on a large-scale surface could be as simple as using a thermometer.
There must have been some temporary reason for omitting the inscription, since it is claimed the surface could be smoothed.
In one dramatic example Mexican and Italian researchers showed that a flat surface could be made to feel sharp.
If "Tree of Leaves" were enlarged, the trunk-like form with its glass leaf-covered surface could be a ravishing public monument.
Complex organic chemicals, created on its surface, could be seeping down through fissures so that primitive lifeforms could have evolved in relatively warm waters beneath the moon's surface.
The store's artificial moss stones, which have a convincing fuzzy green surface, could be arranged around the bottom of the vases, she said.
Scientist: Black metals with a nanostructured surface could be the key to creating better, more effective solar panels, trapping more light than ever before.
