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A 551-ton boring machine front end is cutting under a Melbourne suburb on a leash of cables and hoses dropped down a shaft too short to hold the whole machine, and the rest of it, more than 300 feet of trailing gear, gets bolted on inside the tunnel it has already dug
An Oregon wave-power site opened seven miles off the coast with nearly 50 miles of cable buried under the seafloor and four berths rated at 5 megawatts each, not one machine is in the water, and the first one likely to go in would use one percent of what the cables can carry
A British fusion machine ran more than 1,100 plasmas at 54 million degrees, held the edge steady four separate ways so it stopped throwing the bursts that chew up the walls, and learned to find the plasma by reading the glow from the exhausts above and below it
An Italian reactor is being cut apart from above through 10 feet of water with a clamp on a pole and underwater cameras for eyes, the first 2,200 pounds of metal are already out, and the 157-foot steel ball around it is listed heritage that stays standing when the reactor is gone