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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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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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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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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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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 535-horsepower Corvette with a 6.7-liter V8 was doing 130 on County Road 13 North in Florida, a two-lane road posted at 45, and the deputy who stopped it wave…

The Corvette is a beast, but should you be unleashing it? Probably not, especially if you live in a state with super speeder ...
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While Texas covered its 2024 eclipse by ramping up natural gas plants, Europe meets its own on August 12 with a battery fleet that doubled to 29 gigawatts in a single ye…

Solar went from 27.6% of the state's generation mix down to 1.7% and back up to 27% inside two hours. Nobody's air ...
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The third 3,500-ton borer under Adelaide is the strange one: she digs 1.4 miles north, then crews take her apart, spin a 2,000-ton block of cutterhead and drive around, an…

Mary has been grinding under the southern suburbs since July 1. Catherine is sitting in the same pit Mary launched from, ...
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A 240-ton mining truck with nobody in the cab now drives itself onto a pad where a robot arm plugs it in, and the charger behind that arm pushes 6 megawatts, about t…

Fortescue just proved that a 240-ton autonomous mining truck can charge itself in 30 minutes flat — and the number behind ...
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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 ...
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A California data center has run for two years with no power line at all, making its own electricity from hydrogen and cooling its 1,800 GPUs with the water that drips …

Hydrogen fuel cells were supposed to end up under the hood. Carmakers spent two decades and a great deal of money developing ...
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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, ...