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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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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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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 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, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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A 181-megawatt Taiwanese solar plant floats at high tide and settles onto the seabed when the water goes out, twice a day, and over 25 years it works out to 12 percent …

So a pair of researchers at Taiwan's National Taipei University of Technology asked the obvious follow-up: what happens when ...
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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 ...