Franco Colapinto
Última Hora
24,264 solar panels on trackers over an organic oat field near Germany’s Danish border kept the soil under them so wet that sowing ran four weeks behind the field’s open ends, and a tractor driver looking back over his shoulder drove into a row of modules and broke several
A flooded nickel and copper mine outside Sudbury sat under water for 25 years with every building on top torn down, and a small Ontario company just approved digging a new ramp into it, pumping it dry and putting the old shaft back to work to haul out 2,400 tons of rock a day for 12 years
A 7-inch well nearly 3,000 feet deep on an Australian farming peninsula pumped 14,000 barrels of water a day, seven times its two narrower sister wells, and the helium in that water was purified and bottled beside the rig, the first helium bottled in Australia in three years
A transformer feeding a 1,300-megawatt French reactor on the Luxembourg border caught fire as crews switched it back on at the end of a refueling outage, a water spray put it out before the fire trucks arrived, and this weekend only one of the plant’s four reactors is on the grid