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An 860-ton machine arrived in the Nevada desert on 50 trucks, spun 48 cutter wheels through volcanic rock at 18 feet an hour for 31 months, and cut a five-mile horseshoe 984 feet down that now has barn owls living in it

Two million solar panels and 34,000 tons of American steel are going up on a working Texas coal mine, and the 310-megawatt lignite plant next to them keeps burning, with the owner now looking at digging the mine wider

A 22-ton yellow Canadian machine called Iceberg is parked on land in California with no motor, no battery and nothing to plug into, built to sit offshore and turn 13,200 gallons of the Pacific into fresh water a day

Rock at the bottom of an Arizona copper shaft cooks at 175 degrees nearly 7,000 feet down, and chilling it for a working mine would take more than 140 megawatts of refrigeration, about forty thousand tons of it, running for the life of the mine