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Two cranes rated 1,500 tons together are carrying about 1,400 tons of fusion reactor wedge in France today, four hooks reading 350 tons each, on a lift where the spare …

The machine is ITER, the fusion reactor that seven members are building near Cadarache in southern France. Its plasma chamber ...
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A shrinking California lake sits on enough dissolved lithium for 375 million EV batteries, more than every car on American roads, and the plant named Hell’s Kitchen plans to ...

Hell's Kitchen may be the most provocatively named clean energy project in America, and it might also be the one that finally breaks the U.S. free from its dependence on foreign lithium — by pulling ...
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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 ...

Germany built a floating solar farm where every panel stands perfectly vertical—not because it's more efficient, but because a law limits how much shade you can cast on a lake, and that constraint ...
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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 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 ...

The factory-stock Lotus Emeya 900 just demolished a purpose-built, track-prepped Tesla at Sepang by over seven seconds — and that gap is far more embarrassing for Tesla than the headline suggests. The ...
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Laminated spruce, stronger by the pound than steel

Almost every wind turbine you have driven past sits on a steel tube. It is the part nobody photographs and the part nobody ...
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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 ...

Japan Airlines just threw its weight behind JetZero's Z4, a manta-ray-shaped, 250-seat aircraft with no traditional fuselage that promises to burn 30 to 50% less fuel than anything flying today — and ...
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An 11-foot drill core just came out of Western Australia carrying 32 ounces of gold in a single ton of rock, roughly 500 times the grade that keeps a working mine in busi…

Gold mining is mostly a business of moving dirt. The pits are enormous, the haul trucks are enormous, and the metal hiding ...
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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 ...

Aston Martin just unveiled a life-size military SUV in New York that you will never be able to buy, own, or even touch — it exists exclusively inside Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. The surprising ...
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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 torpedoes ...

Turkey just built an unmanned submarine that doesn't scout for the fleet — it is the fleet, and the distinction matters more than most people realize. Tengiz carries the same full-size 533mm torpedoes ...
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Finland just ran a nuclear reactor past regulators from five countries and none found a showstopper, a machine with no turbine at all, running at the pressure of four car tires ...

Finland just built a nuclear reactor with no turbine, no generator, and no grid connection — and regulators from five countries just reviewed it without anyone pulling the emergency brake. The ...
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Australia’s largest onshore wind farm just revealed one site killed 20 wedge-tailed eagles in 18 months, its deadliest anywhere for the 9-foot-wingspan raptor, and the fix ...

Most fights over a wind farm sound the same. Neighbors object to the look of the towers on a ridgeline, or the low hum, or the aircraft lights blinking after ...