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A French grower planted four hectares of cognac vines under 6,000 solar panels hanging five meters over the rows, and when hail comes the whole array lies flat to …

David Moreau, 45, planted four hectares of ugni blanc at Saint-André-de-Lidon, south of Saintes, underneath 6,000 solar ...
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Lucid just showed the first real images of the Cosmos, a $50,000 electric SUV that pulls about 300 miles from a 69 kWh pack, and the pictures arrived inside the same …

The photos show prototypes out in sub-zero cold-weather testing, and the design is genuinely sharp. Riding on Lucid’s new mid ...
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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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A New York building put a hundred kilowatts of solar panels upright on a green roof and gets about 120,000 kilowatt-hours a year out of them, against 116,000 from a tilted ...

The vertical solar installation in Queens isn't a compromise — it's a rethink of what a productive roof actually means when the law forces you to choose between a garden and a power plant, then tells ...
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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 5,000-ton crane just put the first 1,290-ton steel tube into the seabed off Germany, and it is the same machine that came down across its own deck in Rostock at half that ...

The world's largest offshore crane snapped its own hook at half its rated load during a routine test, collapsed onto the ship it was supposed to work from, and nobody outside the industry heard 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 ...