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Twenty solar panels bolted to a bus trailer in Munich collect 2,000 watts that never touch the drivetrain, run the heating and the air conditioning instead, and save abo…

Solar panels on a vehicle have always had a credibility problem. The roof is small, half the working day it sits in shadow, ...
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America just ordered a shipping container holding 500 kilowatts of laser to burn cruise missiles and drone swarms out of the sky, eight times the strongest one the …

The argument for laser weapons has not changed in about forty years. Electricity is cheap, interceptor missiles are not, and ...
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While one American company runs half a million driverless rides a week using cameras, lidar and radar together, the other has logged 14 crashes in about 800,00…

Waymo's CEO is not impressed with Tesla's camera-only system for autonomous driving. He has since come out with a study.
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BMW pushed a movie advertisement onto the dashboards of its cars in more than 70 countries, appearing on the screen the moment the engine started, and what has o…

BMW just proved it can beam advertisements directly onto your dashboard in 70+ countries simultaneously, and the Spider-Man ...
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A 380-ton German machine 335 feet long threads a steel chain under a live railway, drags the stone out from beneath the crossties like a chainsaw laid flat, washes it an…

Germany has come off two of those closures in the last seven weeks, and on both of them one of the heaviest machines on site ...
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Two 1,490-ton boring machines that had already dug the Sydney Metro were trucked to Brisbane in parts, rebuilt, tested, taken apart again and lowered into a hole in th…

A tunnel boring machine gets built for one hole. The diameter is fixed before anyone breaks ground, the cutterhead is ...
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While Iran is estimated to hold as many as 6,000 sea mines, the American answer is a 26-pound drone fired from a sonobuoy tube that swims out on four water jets, holds position ...

Almost everything the Navy buys is built to come home. Aircraft get refueled and flown again, a torpedo that misses gets logged as an expensive lesson, and a ...
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A 305-pound American drone boat doing 5 knots picked up a Chinese destroyer on radar 10 miles out, closed to within a few hundred meters and filmed it, and the des…

Reuters put the drone at roughly $240,000 and the destroyer at about a billion dollars. That gap is what most of the coverage ...
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The 1,840-ton steel tubes going under Britain’s biggest wind farm are arriving from Bilbao and from a Chinese yard that finished its entire share in June, and the factory ...

Every offshore wind announcement comes with a factory attached. Turbines go in the water, jobs go in the town, and somebody in a hard hat stands in front of a ...
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Frankfurt Airport stood 37,000 solar panels dead upright along 2,800 meters of a runway, edge-on to the sun, so the array gives up the middle of the day on purpos…

Wheat and grass-clover between the rows showed no yield decline at all. "The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar ...
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The 4,872 solar panels bolted to a Swiss dam hang five feet off the concrete so inspectors can still walk the wall and map its cracks, and that gap is why the snow b…

A dam wall is not supposed to do anything except hold back water and get checked for cracks every few years. The Muttsee dam ...
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A volcano the size of Rhode Island in central Oregon holds rock at 629 degrees just 9,800 feet down, and a Texas company cracked it open with two wells and pumped …

Except the hottest enhanced geothermal system ever built is not in Iceland. It sits on the western flank of Newberry volcano, ...