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Luis Reyes

With more than 14 years covering the automotive industry, Luis Reyes is a seasoned voice in the field. A law graduate, he channels his curiosity and expertise into the detailed analysis of national and international regulations that shape the automotive world. At Autonocion.com, Luis combines his strong legal background with a deep passion for vehicles — especially those that have left a mark on automotive history. His experience writing for multiple brands across the industry has established him as a trusted authority. Luis is committed to sharing his expertise and enthusiasm with enthusiasts and industry professionals alike, with a firm belief in the continuous evolution and innovation driving the auto industry forward.
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Dig Energy drilling rig Boston

A drilling rig that takes up one parking space cut seven geothermal boreholes outside a Boston office with water sprayed at 10,000 psi instead of a metal bit, and its drill pipe never came back out, because the pipe itself becomes the heat exchanger

09.22.2026
etherr.a Corenne agrivoltaic sheep

3,240 solar panels stand over a Belgian pasture where 50 ewes graze between the rows, and 40 to 50% of the power they make goes next door, into the limestone quarry that owns the grass and spends its electricity turning big rocks into smaller ones

09.22.2026
FortisBC Eagle Mountain Woodfibre tunnel

A 14.9-foot tunnel borer that grips bare granite and shoves itself forward off the rock broke through under a Canadian mountain into the tunnel half its partner finished in April, closing a single 5.5-mile bore that dips 82 feet below sea level inside the mountain

09.22.2026
Northern Lights CO2 carrier ship

A 427-foot ship built to haul carbon dioxide as a liquid at 31 below zero docks twice a week at Europe’s largest fertilizer plant, loads almost 2 million gallons from its seven tanks, and sails it to Norway to be pumped 8,530 feet under the North Sea

09.22.2026
Deep Fission reactor canister Youngquist

A 20-foot steel canister built to hold a nuclear reactor went 100 feet down a 34-inch borehole in Florida and came back up on the rigging, with 2 inches of clearance per side, run by the company that has drilled the state’s sewage wells since 1971

09.22.2026
Aayushi TBM shield Suburban Rail Loop

A 254-ton steel ring rolled out of an Australian port at night on a truck 180 feet long and wider than two traffic lanes, the front shield of a tunnel-boring machine so large that no road vehicle on Earth could move it assembled in one piece

09.22.2026
Robbins Rocky TBM Ellicott City

An 18.4-foot tunneling machine that has already cut more than 11 miles of rock went down a shaft 150 feet under a Maryland town, rebuilt to grind through solid granite for a tunnel designed to pull 26,000 gallons of floodwater a second away from Main Street

09.21.2026
Mazama Energy Newberry drilling rig

A 10,350-foot well on an Oregon volcano took 15 drilling days, one bit alone cutting 3,578 feet of it without being pulled from the hole, and the first well on the same mountain needed five times as long to reach that depth

09.21.2026
Goldbeck Solar Selchow agri-PV

74,064 solar panels stand 11.5 feet over a working farm pressed against the southern runway of Berlin’s airport, and one crop is banned from the ground beneath them, corn, because tall grain pulls in flocks of birds where jets are taking off

09.21.2026
Hanford WESF capsule cask

An 80-ton concrete cask rolls a quarter mile at the Hanford nuclear site wrapped around a payload that would fit in the bed of a pickup truck, because the capsules inside hold so much cesium and strontium that fewer than 2,000 carry a third of the site’s radioactivity

09.21.2026
ITER fusion

A milling machine that drills holes for the steel biscuits bridging a fusion reactor’s seams took the tight bends of its D-shaped practice rails without a hitch, while the trolley for the X-ray head and the plate positioner both came back needing changes

09.21.2026
DeepDust ICDP drill rig Oklahoma core

A full-size drill rig in Oklahoma oil country is coring 250-million-year-old dust instead of drilling for oil, cutting the rock into long cylinders the way a straw pushes through a layer cake, and 2,579 of the 2,618 feet it has tried to core came back up intact

09.21.2026
Flyability Elios 3 Idaho drone

A caged inspection drone with lights rated at 16,000 lumens finished the 3D map of Idaho concrete vaults holding 155,000 cubic feet of radioactive granules, handing engineers the exact geometry a welding robot needs before it cuts an eight-inch opening into the bins

09.20.2026
Azteq ADPO Kallo solar thermal railway mirrors

Curved solar mirrors stand more than 36 feet over a live railroad track in a Belgian port, on piles driven 66 feet into ground made of dredged sand, and the plant has never made a watt of electricity, because everything it catches leaves as 145-psi steam

09.20.2026
MBARI ROV Doc Ricketts squid

A 10,500-pound underwater drone two miles down off California put three lasers on a squid that’s been seen about 70 times in recorded history and measured it at 4.1 feet, because on video a 4-foot squid 10 feet away and an 8-foot squid 20 feet away look the same

09.20.2026
Jack's Solar Garden Colorado

3,276 solar panels stand 6.5 to 8 feet over a new Colorado berry patch that lost plants when drought cut off the farm’s irrigation water, because the shade they drag across the ground all day slows how fast the soil dries and puts not one drop of water back into it

09.20.2026
Saltstone Disposal Unit Savannah River

A 65-foot earth dam holding back the lake that cooled two plutonium reactors got a sinkhole, so the DOE siphoned off 16 billion gallons to protect a town downstream, and the stirred-up mud left the lake’s alligators with mercury at four times the WHO food limit

09.20.2026
Dounreay sphere

A 135-foot steel ball on the Scottish coast is getting rusty spots painted over even though it’s slated for demolition, because the reactor inside still holds close to 1,000 uranium elements that swelled and jammed in place, and crews cut just 30 free last year

09.20.2026
Kasgro DOE Atlas railcar

A 78-foot, 12-axle railcar built to haul spent nuclear fuel is getting a refurbished rail line in Idaho for its first cask, and fully loaded it puts about 355 tons on the rails yet sits lighter on each axle than the flatcar beside it, which carries 98 tons of welded steel

09.19.2026
Paks 1 Nuclear Power Plant

Two 262-foot barges were flooded and sunk to the bottom of the Danube, helicopters dropped 4,400-pound concrete blocks into the river, and the rock wall that followed now holds the water 20 inches higher so Hungary’s only nuclear plant can keep all four reactors running

09.19.2026
IAEA Imagebank Zaporizhzhya NPP emergency diesel generator

Seven emergency diesel generators kept six shut-down reactors cool when Europe’s largest nuclear plant lost its last power line, but crews ended up running just two of them to stretch the fuel over 18 days, and they’ve burned through almost all of it

09.19.2026
Pickering Nuclear Generating Station Lake Ontario

A 2,064-megawatt nuclear station outside Toronto goes dark next week so crews can pull all 1,520 pressure tubes from its four reactors, a swap no US reactor can make, because every American reactor keeps its fuel inside one steel vessel that has never been replaced

09.19.2026
PD Ports South Gare

While storm waves knocked concrete slabs as heavy as 55 tons out of place at a 150-year-old English breakwater, granite boulders of up to 33 tons are going in underwater one at a time, because a sloped rock pile takes the energy out of a wave before it hits the breakwater

09.19.2026
Hanford Tank-Side Cesium Removal

Three 24,000-pound nuclear waste filters in Washington state are catching radioactive cesium again after a six-month pause caused by the tank they drain into, which holds about a million gallons, roughly four times what the glass furnace downstream has taken from it

09.19.2026
MSC Baltic III wreck Cedar Cove Newfoundland

A 679-foot container ship that won’t float was dragged 174 feet toward a Newfoundland beach by twelve hydraulic chain pullers on the high tides, and crews cut off its bow and hauled it onto the shore, with close to half the ship’s weight now gone

09.18.2026
AGL Liddell Battery Fluence

A 500-megawatt battery passed its last reliability test at a shuttered Australian coal plant, plugged into the same 330,000-volt switchyard the plant’s four coal units fed for 50 years, and it can push a quarter of their power for two hours before it runs empty

09.18.2026
SM-1 nuclear power plant

A 1,750-kilowatt Army reactor ran 16 years on a Virginia post and sat sealed for 48 more, and it has now been taken apart and hauled off, leaving a graded and seeded field where the first steady flow of nuclear power into an American commercial grid began

09.18.2026
Oshen C-Star sailing drone

A 4.26-foot drone boat that weighs 123.5 pounds sailed itself almost 3,100 miles across the Atlantic in 117 days on a 52.5-watt solar panel, carrying a thruster it was never allowed to use, and 37 boats have failed the same crossing

09.18.2026
seabed sentry anduril drone

An American seabed drone with no cable running back to shore heard submarine drones come through a channel and put them on a Navy screen within seconds, from an eight-foot tube that lets go of its own anchor and floats back up when the job is done

09.18.2026
D3Energy Lima Ohio floating solar

9,222 solar panels now float on the reservoir where a village of 1,300 people gets its drinking water, on 12 acres instead of the 30 of farmland the same output needs on land, and the retired village administrator who pushed it saw it switched on

09.18.2026
Lineage Boyle Heights cold storage warehouse fire solar panels

A rooftop solar array over a 500,000-square-foot Los Angeles freezer burned for eight days and left 85 million pounds of food rotting inside, and the operator’s suit says inspectors had logged 200 connector failures in the quadrant where it started

09.18.2026
ANDRITZ Kaplan runner Old Hickory

A 22-foot runner has been spinning under the Cumberland River since 1957, and the one going in to replace it has seven blades instead of five, the same 264-inch diameter and the same 75 rpm, because spreading the same water over two more blades keeps it from pitting the metal

09.18.2026
Operation Windlord C-17 reactor

The Navy’s last land-based reactor made 1.8 megawatts in Antarctica until 438 malfunctions shut it down and crews dug up the contaminated soil under it and shipped it home, and the next one goes on an Indiana base that has to be making power by September 2028

09.18.2026
https://www.georgiapower.com/news-hub/press-releases/georgia-power-robins-battery-storage-achieves-commercial-operation.html

A 128-megawatt battery next to 470,000 solar panels outside an Air Force base in Georgia now stores their daytime power for cold winter mornings, and nine more batteries are approved that add up to over 3,000 megawatts

09.17.2026
Yunnan University perovskite cell

A solar cell built to see only the blue and green light left 33 feet underwater turned 34.7% of it into electricity in the lab, against 17% in full sun, and panels built the same way charged a drone’s batteries at that depth in open sea

09.17.2026
deep fision nuclear reactor

While most of its fuel details are blacked out, a mile-deep Kansas reactor’s newly public safety file spells out its worst case: every fuel rod bursts, and a worker 328 feet away still takes under 5 rem

09.17.2026
Holtec Palisades SMR-300 Pioneer site Covert Michigan

Two 340-megawatt small nuclear reactors on the Lake Michigan shore can start as a hole: regulators let the builder wall off the pit with concrete before any permit, and the walls stay buried for good

09.17.2026
Westinghouse eVinci microreactor NCERC Nevada test

A reactor core went critical at 1,225 degrees on the old Nevada nuclear test site 10 days after doing it cold, and reached 1,852 degrees in a test that set a temperature record there

09.17.2026
MBARI Octopus Garden Davidson Seamount pearl octopus

A 12-foot robot swept a laser 10 feet over the largest known octopus nursery, 10,500 feet down off California, where warm springs hatch the eggs in under two years instead of five to eight

09.17.2026
Annapolis Renewable Energy Park solar landfill

A 57-acre solar farm on concrete slabs over a closed Maryland landfill made 22.9 gigawatt-hours in a year from 52,416 solar panels, a little short of the 24 its builders projected

09.17.2026
Sun'Agri La Pugère apple orchard agrivoltaic trackers

A 17.7-foot solar canopy tilts its panels over French apple trees when the heat peaks, and 2% of the apples under it were thrown out for sunburn against 13% on the trees beside it

09.16.2026
TRISO fuel pebble Idaho National Laboratory

A 0.034-inch nuclear fuel particle came out of a test reactor with a softer ceramic shell, and a US lab found it by pressing a tip into each of its layers one at a time

09.16.2026
Double Chooz near detector Chooz nuclear plant

A 2,721-gallon tank a quarter mile from two French reactors caught antineutrinos from their fuel for the first time with both switched off, six a day against 900 at full power, a signal no wall stops and no operator can fake

09.16.2026
ShinMaywa XU-MII unmanned flying boat JAMSTEC

A 220-pound underwater drone held itself steady near the bottom off Japan and sent its seabed pictures by sound to a pilotless seaplane that had landed itself on the water, over a link slower than dial-up

09.16.2026
KU Leuven agrivoltaic pear orchard Bierbeek Bisol Lumina

A 13.8-foot-high roof of solar panels took the place of hail nets over Belgian pear trees and cut the harvest 15% three years running, but each acre did the work of 1.44 acres once the electricity was counted

09.16.2026
Thea Energy planar shaping coil Kearny

A flat fusion magnet built in a New Jersey shop hit 6 tesla at 424 degrees below zero, and the startup behind it wants 300 identical copies to do the job Germany’s stellarator does with 50 twisted coils in five shapes

09.16.2026
Ward & Burke microtunneling Welland Canal Port Colborne

A 5-foot tunnel bored 1,017 feet through bedrock under the canal that lets freighters skip Niagara Falls broke through in 33 days, with ships passing 65 feet above the crew, and the same machine is now cutting a second one

09.15.2026
3D-COAST solar oyster raft The World Is Your Oyster Wiscasset

An 8-by-25-foot solar raft off Maine tumbles 24 chains of oyster baskets through the water on 100 watts and hangs each one in the sun for two hours to kill the barnacles

09.15.2026
PPPL LTX-beta tokamak porous tungsten sample

US scientists blast a tungsten ‘sponge’ with neon inside a fusion reactor after every factory cleaning failed, and it comes out 87% pure metal

09.15.2026
ANSTO OPAL reactor pool Lucas Heights

A 20-megawatt reactor in Sydney that can’t power a light bulb has irradiated 990 tons of silicon in 20 years, letting its neutrons turn silicon atoms into phosphorus one by one for the chips that switch current in EVs and trains

09.15.2026
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