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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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Japan switched one reactor back on at the biggest nuclear station ever built after fourteen years dark, and three weeks later the utility that owns it started switching o…

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa sits on the Sea of Japan coast about 135 miles northwest of Tokyo, and it is the largest nuclear power ...
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A 661-pound Swedish drone fires out of a submarine’s torpedo tube, crawls across the Baltic floor at 3 knots, picks up a second one that has been sitting there waiting and ...

Sweden has been quietly running a torpedo-tube-launched robot that rescues other underwater drones since 2019 — six years before the US Navy held its first press conference about doing something ...
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A 13-foot yellow Japanese drone spent two weeks hunting mines in a northern bay alongside an American ship with a wooden hull, because the frigate that carries the drone is ...

Japan's Mogami-class frigates have quietly solved one of naval warfare's oldest puzzles by keeping the steel ship safely out of the minefield and sending a 13-foot drone to do the dangerous work ...
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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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A 2,000-pound American drone named after a fish swims into the mines Iran laid in the Strait of Hormuz for 16 hours at a time, comes up nose-first so nobody has to go in the ...

The US Navy's answer to Iran's mine campaign in the Strait of Hormuz isn't a destroyer or a minesweeper — it's a 2,000-pound robot fish that hunts alone for 16 hours straight in waters no sailor is ...
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Four 330-ton German steam generators came out of a dead reactor building whole, sailed to a Swedish smelter as a single 1,200-ton shipment, and about 95% of that steel will ...

Germany just sent four massive steam generators from a shuttered nuclear plant on a one-way trip to a Swedish smelter, and the scale of what it takes to actually dismantle a dead reactor will stop you ...
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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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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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Jay Leno’s classic car law cleared the committee that killed the last version, and it would let 1976 to 1985 cars skip California’s smog check for good, which is a window ...

Jay Leno's smog exemption bill just cleared the exact California committee that killed its predecessor, and this time it has something the last version didn't: bipartisan support engineered through a ...