carlos sainz
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29,000 gallons of radioactive liquid that heats itself was pumped out of British tanks built in the 1950s a lawnmower tank at a time, 10.6 gallons a cycle for 2,250 cycles, through valves nobody had opened in 20 years, and the job finished in months against a plan of more than a year
A 577-foot tunnel borer dug 1.6 miles under the Australian seabed in 196 days to meet an intake pipe planted from a barge, and the pipe’s center ended up about 4 inches from its target, 36 feet below the sea floor
A California hillside water battery is designed to hold 5 million gallons in its upper tank that only firefighters can touch and 80 megawatt-hours in roofed tanks instead of a dam, and the drill rig started boring the same day the utility cut power to 3,601 customers
A 2,140-ton lighthouse tender that spent 27 years supplying Australian lighthouses and 20 more tied to one Sydney wharf was boarded by water police and seized for disposal after inspectors found football-sized holes in a hull its owners say passed three dive inspections