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Germany stood 2,600 solar panels dead upright on a Bavarian lake, edge-on to the sun, because a law says you can shade 15% of the water and not an inch more, and the rows lean like sails on underwater keels when the wind loads up
Japan Airlines just signed on to help build a passenger jet shaped like a stealth bomber, a 250-seat blended-wing design meant to burn 30 to 50% less fuel and become the first commercial aircraft of its kind in the early 2030s
American and South Korean scientists just fed water bottles, shopping bags and yogurt tubs into a single reactor without sorting them first, drawing off hydrogen more than 90% pure while most of the plastic’s carbon came out as solid rock
Germany just finished the machine for America’s widest subway tunnel, a 54-foot borer whose motor alone weighs more than 300 tons, and the five-mile San Jose tube it was built to dig is still on the drawing board with no sailing date booked