Technology and the built world

QGroundControl

QGroundControl (QGC) is an open-source ground control station for drones, providing full flight control, mission planning, and vehicle setup for MAVLink autopilots such as PX4 and ArduPilot.

Qhull is an open-source C library and command-line program that computes convex hulls, Delaunay triangulations, Voronoi diagrams, and halfspace intersections in general dimension, implementing the Quickhull algorithm published in 1996.

Qi (standard)

Qi, pronounced "chee," is the global wireless charging standard developed by the Wireless Power Consortium, first released in 2010, that charges smartphones and handheld devices by magnetic induction.

Qi Tian

Qi Tian (田奇) is a computer vision and multimedia researcher, Chief Scientist in AI at Huawei Consumer Business Group and Director of Guangming Laboratory in Shenzhen.

Qian Xuesen (钱学森)

Qian Xuesen, also known as Hsue-Shen Tsien (钱学森), was a Chinese aerodynamicist who co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and, after his 1955 deportation, led China's missile and space programs.

Qianbei power station

Qianbei power station (黔北发电厂) is a coal-fired power plant in Jinsha, Bijie, Guizhou, China, built in two stages in the late 1990s and early 2000s with at least 1,200 megawatts of capacity.

Qiandong power station

Qiandong power station is an operating 1,200 MW coal-fired power station in Zhenyuan, Guizhou, China, whose two 600 MW units sell their electricity to the neighboring Hunan Grid.

Qianfan (千帆)

Qianfan (千帆), known as Thousand Sails or G60 Starlink, is a Chinese low Earth orbit satellite broadband constellation, launched since 2024 and planned at over 10,000 satellites.

Qianfan Xingzuo

Qianfan Xingzuo (千帆星座), also known as Spacesail or G60, is a Chinese low Earth orbit broadband megaconstellation operated by Shanghai Spacecom as a competitor to Starlink.

Qiangfei Xia

Qiangfei Xia is an electrical engineer and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst known for memristor research, neuromorphic computing, and co-founding the AI accelerator startup TetraMem.

Qianxi power station

Qianxi power station (黔西电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Gantang Town, Bijie, Guizhou, China, with five units totaling 1,860 MW commissioned from 2005 to 2017.

Qiaoliang Bao

Qiaoliang Bao (鲍桥梁) is a materials scientist working on graphene and 2D material photonics, known for graphene saturable absorbers, polarizers, and anisotropic polaritons in molybdenum trioxide.

Qiaotou power station

Qiaotou power station is a 1,980 MW coal-fired power station in Qiaotou Town, Xining, Qinghai, China, founded in 1956 and rebuilt with ultra-supercritical units reaching full capacity in 2026.

Qibing Pei

Qibing Pei (裴启兵) is a materials scientist known for dielectric elastomer artificial muscles and solid-state cooling, long a professor at UCLA and from 2026 at the University of Macau.

Qidian (起点中文网)

Qidian (起点中文网) is a Chinese online literature website for serialized web novels, established in 2002 and known for pioneering the pay-per-chapter subscription model now standard in China.

Qidong LNG Terminal

The Qidong LNG Terminal, formally the Guanghui Energy Qidong LNG receiving and distribution terminal, is a liquefied natural gas import terminal in Qidong, Jiangsu, China, operated by Guanghui Energy since 2017.

Qilei Song

Qilei Song is a Chinese chemical engineer known for microporous polymer membranes for gas separation and redox flow batteries, and a professor at the University of Birmingham.

Qilin Li

Qilin Li is an environmental engineer, the Karl F. Hasselmann Professor at Rice University, and co-director of the NSF NEWT water treatment center, researching desalination and wastewater reuse.

Qinbei power station

Qinbei power station (华能国际沁北发电厂) is a 4,400 MW coal-fired power station in Jiyuan, Henan, China, owned by Huaneng Power International, with six units built between 2004 and 2013.

Qinetiq

QinetiQ Group is a British defense and security company headquartered in Farnborough, England, created in 2001 from the privatization of most of the UK Ministry of Defence's DERA.

Qing Wang (engineer, National University of Singapore)

Qing Wang, also known as Wang Qing (王庆), is a Singapore-based materials scientist and engineer at the National University of Singapore known for inventing redox targeting-based flow batteries.

Qing Wang (engineer, Pennsylvania State University)

Qing Wang is a materials scientist and professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, known for dielectric polymers and nanocomposites for high-temperature energy storage.

Qing Zhang

Qing Zhang (张青) is a Chinese nanophotonics and materials scientist, a tenured associate professor at Peking University since 2022, known for halide perovskite nanolasers and room-temperature exciton polaritons.

Qing-Huo Liu

Qing-Huo Liu is a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and Duke University professor known for computational electromagnetics and geophysical sensing, who received a 1996 Presidential Early Career Award.

Qing-Long Han

Qing-Long Han is an Australian control engineer who has been Pro Vice-Chancellor and Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne since 2016, known for time-delay and networked control systems.

Qingcheng Shale Oil Field

Qingcheng Shale Oil Field (庆城油田) is a shale oil field in Qingyang, Gansu Province, China, discovered by PetroChina in 2019 and China's largest, with reserves exceeding 1 billion tons.

Qingdao power station

Qingdao power station (华电国际青岛发电厂) is a coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Shibei District, Qingdao, Shandong, China, operated by Huadian Qingdao Power Generation, with four 300 MW-class units.

Qingdao-Nanjing Gas Pipeline

The Qingdao-Nanjing Gas Pipeline (青宁天然气管道) is a 536 km natural gas pipeline in eastern China connecting the Qingdao LNG terminal in Shandong to Nanjing, commissioned in 2020 and owned by PipeChina.

Qingdian Photovoltaic (清电光伏科技有限公司) (清电光伏科技)

Qingdian Photovoltaic (清电光伏科技有限公司) is a Chinese solar photovoltaic manufacturer founded in Hefei, Anhui, in 2022, which raised a RMB 1.5 billion Series A in 2023 and built wafer and TOPCon cell capacity.