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A fusion magnet system of 44 superconducting coils peaked at 13.7 tesla, against the 1.5 to 3 of a hospital MRI, and spent about 10,000 hours energized across 14 months, riding out sideways stresses of 21,750 psi trying to shove the conductors loose
A wind turbine built to stand 1,198 feet tall in eastern Germany can’t even get its three blades bolted on in strong wind, and once they’re on, hydraulic jacks still have to push its 827-ton top up through the lattice tower at 30 feet an hour to a hub height of 984 feet
An 8-foot delta-wing drone built as America’s copy of Iran’s Shahed drifted in the Gulf off Florida for two days with a mahi-mahi sheltering under it, until a charter crew mistook it for a capsized boat, hauled it in, and got a call asking for the drone back
An 11-ton drill rig that ships as a standard 20-foot container gets lowered as deep as 8,858 feet to the seabed on a single 1.4-inch cable, stands itself on four legs and drills 492 feet into the bottom, with every watt it burns coming down that one wire