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A broke fiberglass boat builder in Arkansas invented the modern orange ball on power lines after a governor flew past a wire and asked “what in the hell was that?” Today the FAA has rules down to the exact shade of orange
A 132-pound underwater drone with no propeller can now sit on the seabed for three months listening for submarines with an AI trained on decades of ocean sound. Germany built it, and the UK just ordered a program around hundreds
Japan’s osmotic plant made history powering an office building. At a canal lock where the Rhône meets the Mediterranean, France is now testing the version aimed at 500 megawatts, 4,500 times bigger, from a membrane that needs no turbine
A German startup just showed a panel that takes in sunlight and water and gives back hydrogen, no electrolyzer, no electricity, no grid. The working prototype is one square meter, and the plan is to stamp them out like drywall