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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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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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Rock at the bottom of an Arizona copper shaft cooks at 175 degrees nearly 7,000 feet down, and chilling it for a working mine would take more than 140 megawatts of ...

The hole is the part of a mine everyone pictures. Big machine, big shaft, rock comes out, somebody gets rich. At the copper ...
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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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An American seabed drone with no cable running back to shore heard submarine drones come through a channel and put them on a Navy screen within seconds, during a six-week ...

Anduril just proved that Cold War-era underwater surveillance infrastructure — thousands of miles of seafloor cable, years of installation, and a neon sign for enemy satellites — can be replaced by a ...
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A new car will carry 278 gigabytes of memory by the end of this year and the screen-heavy ones run 2 terabytes, more than most laptops hold, and the AI assistant in th…

The automotive industry could be next to deal with the memory chip shortage. Expect further price increases on new cars.
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A 22-ton yellow Canadian machine called Iceberg is parked on land in California with no motor, no battery and nothing to plug into, built to sit offshore and turn 13,200 ...

Wave-powered desalination sounds like a fantasy, but a 22-ton Canadian buoy parked in Fort Bragg right now runs zero grid power and is engineered to push 13,200 gallons of fresh water ashore every ...
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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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A Virginia couple just bred a cow to fit a solar farm, a calm 1,000-pound cross of four old breeds they call inverter cattle, designed to eat the weeds under live panels ...

By now, sheep on a solar farm barely count as a surprise. They crop the grass low, wedge into the strips a mower can't reach, ...
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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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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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While the Pentagon’s 80-ton drone submarine, the size of a subway car, is still officially a minelayer, Turkey unveiled a 17.8-ton one specced to fire the full-size tor…

The name comes from an old Turkic word for the sea, and the pitch behind it is blunter than the one behind most underwater ...