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The Navy took a 7-foot drone’s depth sensors, sonar and buoyancy with nothing but a wall of air bubbles in a Latvian harbor, and the Coast Guard just gave industry until ...

The US Navy just proved you can stop an underwater drone with nothing but bubbles — no missiles, no nets, no explosives — and it actually worked against four critical systems simultaneously. An air ...
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177,675 solar panels are going up beside 940 megawatts of coal in Minnesota and plug into the grid through 2.5 miles of line, while 255,000 more from the same auction need 3.5 ...

Minnesota Power's two solar farms, built simultaneously from the same auction, reveal a rarely discussed truth: the solar panels themselves may not be the most expensive part of going green. Boswell ...
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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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An 860-ton machine arrived in the Nevada desert on 50 trucks, spun 48 cutter wheels through volcanic rock at 18 feet an hour for 31 months, and cut a five-mile horsesh…

America has never worked out where to put the fuel that comes out of its nuclear reactors. That part most people know. What ...
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An Australian mining company drilled 89 holes 34 miles long in total into Saskatchewan, pumped them full of chilled brine to freeze 2,625 feet of waterlogge…

Getting it out is the strange part. The potash at BHP's Jansen mine sits roughly 850 to 1,100 meters down, and sitting on top ...
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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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Rock at the bottom of an Arizona copper shaft cooks at 175 degrees nearly 7,000 feet down, and chilling it for a working mine would take more than 140 megawatts of ...

The hole is the part of a mine everyone pictures. Big machine, big shaft, rock comes out, somebody gets rich. At the copper ...
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A 23-foot drone sailboat hit 39.7 mph surfing down a 55-foot wave inside a hurricane, about twenty times its normal cruising speed, and NOAA has 26 more dr…

NOAA pays a company in Alameda, California to break that rule on purpose. Since 2021, Saildrone and the National Oceanic and ...
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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, ...
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Four 13,000-horsepower pumps drag 1.7 million gallons of the Pacific a minute through California’s last nuclear plant and push it back into the cove 20 degrees war…

Cooling water is not a trivial constraint on nuclear plants anywhere. In July, France idled three reactors mid-heatwave ...
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A new car will carry 278 gigabytes of memory by the end of this year and the screen-heavy ones run 2 terabytes, more than most laptops hold, and the AI assistant in th…

The automotive industry could be next to deal with the memory chip shortage. Expect further price increases on new cars.
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A 240-ton mining truck with nobody in the cab now drives itself onto a pad where a robot arm plugs it in, and the charger behind that arm pushes 6 megawatts, about t…

Fortescue just proved that a 240-ton autonomous mining truck can charge itself in 30 minutes flat — and the number behind ...