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A raft of solar platforms riding several meters above the North Sea has now survived two winters 7.5 miles off the Dutch coast, certified for 38-foot waves, by standing on columns and letting the sea pass underneath instead of taking the hit
4+ hour, 8+ min ago (1027+ words) The thing being designed is the Offshore Floating Power & Utility Hub. The research program paying for it is called Steady Seas, and the partner is MARIN, the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands. It is one platform, built to be lifted and…...
While Germany and Denmark lower 73,500-ton concrete boxes onto the Baltic and watch the schedule slip, Norway is blasting a deeper road under worse rock on time, two roundabouts 820 feet below the sea already carved from the stone
23+ hour, 38+ min ago (1255+ words) Roundabouts are one of those things American drivers have opinions about. Traffic engineers keep installing them because the crash math works out, and plenty of drivers keep treating each one as a personal insult. Norway has just finished carving two…...
While America's closest shot at tidal power is a 5-megawatt pilot still on paper, France has been pulling 240 megawatts out of the same estuary since de Gaulle cut the ribbon, with turbines that spin whichever way the water moves
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (1421+ words) Every argument about renewable energy ends up in the same place. Solar stops at sunset, wind does whatever the weather tells it to, and something else has to cover the gap. Tides are the exception, because they answer to orbital…...
Germany stood 2,600 solar panels dead upright on a Bavarian lake, edge-on to the sun, because a law says you can shade 15% of the water and not an inch more, and the rows lean like sails on underwater keels when the wind loads up
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (1113+ words) Every solar farm you have driven past looks about the same from the road. Rows of dark panels tilted up at the sky, angled south, all of them waiting on noon. On a gravel lake southwest of Munich there are…...
American and South Korean scientists just fed water bottles, shopping bags and yogurt tubs into a single reactor without sorting them first, drawing off hydrogen more than 90% pure while most of the plastic's carbon came out as solid rock
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (1031+ words) Rinsing out a yogurt tub and checking the little number stamped into the bottom feels like the responsible thing to do. That number is a resin code, and it is there because most recycling processes only work on one kind…...
Japan Airlines just signed on to help build a passenger jet shaped like a stealth bomber, a 250-seat blended-wing design meant to burn 30 to 50% less fuel and become the first commercial aircraft of its kind in the early 2030s
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (906+ words) Want to take a stealth bomber to your next trip to Tokyo? That will likely never happen, but Japan Airlines is backing something very, very close. At the Farnborough Air Show on July 21, JAL announced its support for JetZero’s Z4 program,…...
A turbine the size of half a basketball court has sat invisible on an Alaskan riverbed since 2019, powering a village of 70 where diesel lands 2,000 gallons at a time on old DC-4 planes, and Congress just moved to stop licensing it like Hoover Dam
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (1790+ words) Say hydropower and most people picture a dam: a wall of concrete, a reservoir stacked behind it, a lake where a valley used to be. That is how the overwhelming majority of America’s water power actually gets made, and it…...
The maker of James Bond's cars just built a jagged military SUV that will only ever exist inside Call of Duty, unveiling a life-size model in New York of a machine you cannot buy at any price, only play
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (292+ words) Aston Martin has revealed something unexpected in New York. Rather than a suave, classy sports car you’d see in a spy movie, Aston Martin has created a massive, hulking SUV that you’d maybe see in a video game. In partnership…...
A factory-stock electric Lotus just beat the Tesla EV lap record at Sepang by more than seven seconds, a 905-horsepower sedan with zero track modifications taking down a Model 3 that was stripped and rebuilt specifically to hold it
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (354+ words) Okay, I know, I know. Is an electric Lotus really a Lotus? I don’t think anyone at the Southern California Lotus Club would consider it one, but I sent them this news anyway: The Emeya 900 has beaten a very impressive…...
Britain just ordered the largest boring machine ever put underground in Europe, a 5,500-ton German giant with a cutting face wider than a basketball court, built to dig both Thames tunnels alone and turn around at the far end
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (1547+ words) Britain has been arguing about a road tunnel under the Thames since 2009. That is sixteen years of consultations and inquiries, a planning decision that slipped three separate times, and more than £1.2 billion (about $1.6 billion) spent before anyone had consent to…...