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Four boring machines 498 feet long each will dig New York’s new rail tunnel in two pairs with different cutterheads, because a machine built for 35,000-psi volcanic rock is the wrong tool for the saturated mud waiting on the Manhattan side
China just bolted 50 megawatts of solar panels over an alpine meadow at 11,000 feet on the Tibetan Plateau, and the dark silicon that should have baked the ground like a parking lot froze it for 50 extra days a year instead, seven more weeks of winter under the rows
Canada just lowered a 1,050-ton slab of steel and concrete into a 115-foot shaft in Ontario and ended a decade of talk, starting the Western world’s first grid-scale small nuclear reactor, a machine that fits on two soccer fields and powers 300,000 homes
A 3,858-ton German machine named Mary just started spinning a 49-foot cutting wheel under Adelaide’s houses, working 24/7 with 20 specialists riding inside her — and on a good day she covers 33 feet