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A Swiss tomato grower hung 1,736 solar modules inside his greenhouse directly over the rows, and they take only the infrared the plants never use, so the crop came ou…

Put a solar panel anywhere near a crop and you have started a fight. The panel wants sunlight, the plant wants sunlight, and ...
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Two 4,400-ton machines finished digging under Melbourne last month after two years and 2.8 million tons of rock, and nobody drives through the hole until 2028, b…

A tunnel boring machine gets famous exactly twice in its life. Once when it goes into the ground with a naming ceremony and a ...
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Arizona bolted 2,556 solar panels over half a mile of irrigation canal on steel trusses that never touch the water, the first in the country to do it, and it costs about twice ...

Arizona just pulled off something no American irrigation district had done before — solar panels bolted over a working canal — but the real story is how a project that was supposed to finish second ...
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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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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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Most electric SUVs stop pulling right after 60 mph, and this 4,900-pound one kept going all the way to a 128.1 mph trap speed at the quarter mile, six clear of a Mode…

The Rivian R2 is surprisingly fast and that may have finally pushed it past the Tesla Model Y in the ongoing debate.
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A three-ton American drone submarine survives 19,700 feet by letting the sea straight through it, stays down ten days at a time, and its whole outer shell prints in under two ...

The Dive-LD isn't just a submarine — it's a manufacturing revolution that makes the entire U.S. Navy shipbuilding industry look like it's working in slow motion. A three-ton drone that dives deeper ...
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A 52-megawatt solar farm on 240 acres of Houston landfill has to hold 140-mph Gulf winds down with concrete alone, because a driven pile would puncture the cap keeping the dump ...

The Sunnyside solar project is one of the most structurally ambitious urban energy bets in the country, and almost nobody outside Houston knows it exists. Every single panel on this 52-megawatt array ...
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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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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 ...