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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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Color photo of Great Lakes freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald underway, with the ship name clearly painted on the red hull near the bow.

A 13,632-ton freighter lies broken in two 530 feet down in Lake Superior, 51 years after she sank in a November storm with all 29 men aboard, and federal scientists estimate up to 1,191 barrels of heavy fuel oil could still be inside a wreck with no reported leak

11.06.2026
Aerial view of the 463-foot Detroit Dam on Oregon’s North Santiam River, with Detroit Reservoir behind the concrete face and the powerhouse at the base

A 463-foot concrete dam on Oregon’s North Santiam River will drop Detroit Reservoir to elevation 1,425 feet in late November, hold it there about two weeks, and start a multi-year step-down so young salmon and steelhead can find a safer way past the dam

11.06.2026
Open trench on a downtown Boise street with new insulated geothermal pipes laid in it, an excavator arm, orange barriers and brick buildings

A 177-degree underground water supply already runs through more than 20 miles of pipe under Boise to heat over 6 million square feet in the largest municipal geothermal system in the US, and it’s now headed for more than 300 affordable homes, something officials say no other American city has tried

11.06.2026
Giant 15.7-metre tunnel boring machine cutterhead painted with blue, teal and orange Indigenous artwork, standing on a yellow cradle inside an assembly hall

A 51-foot-wide boring machine is about halfway through a 0.9-mile dive under Sydney Harbour, and when it and its twin break into the 75-foot caverns waiting on the far shore next year, their cutterheads will be cut loose, pushed aside and sealed into the rock for good

11.06.2026
Aerial view of Arkansas Nuclear One near Russellville, Arkansas, with the Unit 2 cooling tower venting steam beside the two reactor containment buildings

A 988-megawatt reactor in Arkansas was at 100 percent power when a lightning strike near the station knocked out every reactor coolant pump at 8:38 a.m., the protection system scrammed the core on its own, and operators held it in hot standby with no radiological release

11.06.2026
Inside McNary Dam powerhouse, two gantry cranes lift the large Unit 14 generator rotor out of its pit during the October 2026 modernization

A 650-ton beam and two gantry cranes just hoisted a generator rotor out of a 72-year-old Columbia River dam to make room for the first of 14 new turbines, and the last one isn’t due for another 11 years

11.05.2026
Insolight solar panels raised over rows of organic blueberry bushes on Olivier Pichonnat's farm in Lovatens, Switzerland

5,220 solar panels raised 10.5 feet over 4.4 acres of organic blueberries in western Switzerland kept the field producing four weeks longer than open ground through this summer’s heat, and they sit high enough for the farmer’s machines to work underneath them

11.05.2026
Stor Kran's Pacific Titan floating shear-leg crane, earlier known as the Left Coast Lifter, with its 330-foot boom over the Hudson River beside the old Tappan Zee Bridge

A 4,300-ton floating crane with a 330-foot boom and no way to move itself spent almost a year moored off West Seattle waiting on a contract, and tugboats just pulled it away from the waterfront to go lift close to 2,000 tons at a time around the Pacific Northwest

11.05.2026
Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4 in Georgia, the two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors whose design is proposed for Prosperity One in Lewis County, Kentucky

A 4,500-acre stretch of Ohio River bottomland that a Kentucky utility bought for a coal plant it never built is lined up for six of the reactors running at Georgia’s Vogtle plant, 6.6 gigawatts, more than any nuclear plant in America makes today

11.05.2026
Water pouring out of Bartlett Dam on Arizona's Verde River during a March 2023 release (SRP file photo)

A 308-foot dam in Arizona just let out about 60,000 cubic feet of water a second, the most its operator believes it has sent downstream in 33 years, and the Salt River through Phoenix, a dry bed most of the year, is expected to keep running for days if not weeks

11.05.2026
The Old River Low Sill Structure, a long concrete gated control structure on the Mississippi River near Lettsworth, Louisiana, seen from the rocky low-water bank

A 566-foot concrete dam that keeps the Mississippi from changing course lost its 67-foot wing wall to a flood that dug up to 55 feet under it, was cut from a 35-foot drop to 22, and Army engineers have now pumped its bays dry to weigh the ground below for voids

11.05.2026
Cooper Nuclear Station, a General Electric boiling water reactor run by Nebraska Public Power District near the Missouri River in Brownville, Nebraska

An 800-megawatt reactor on the Missouri River was starting back up after a refueling outage, still at just 9 percent power, when operators shut it down by hand at 4:54 in the morning because the only feedwater pump it had running started to shake harder than it should

11.04.2026
Herrenknecht Mixshield tunnel boring machine for Panama Metro Line 3, its 44-foot cutterhead painted in the colors of the Panamanian flag

A 44-foot boring machine spent 25 months cutting a 2.8-mile tunnel that drops 213 feet below sea level to pass under the Panama Canal with ships still running overhead, and just came up on the far side with 2,295 concrete rings behind her, so a monorail can skip the two bridges jammed every morning

11.04.2026
Water pouring over the top of Watson Lake Dam, also known as Granite Dam, in the Granite Dells outside Prescott, Arizona

A 36-inch release valve had already been opened ahead of the storm at a century-old concrete arch dam outside Prescott, Arizona, and water still poured over the top on Sunday, when runoff at two to three times normal sent more than 4,000 cubic feet per second into the lake

11.04.2026
Headframe at KGHM International's Victoria project west of Sudbury, Ontario

A 22-foot-wide shaft just hit 5,265 feet straight down through the rock 22 miles west of Sudbury, deep enough to stack more than three Empire State Buildings inside it, and it still has about 840 feet to go at a copper and nickel mine that won’t be finished until the middle of next decade

11.04.2026
Visitors on the sandstone at The Chains with Glen Canyon Dam behind them, near Page, Arizona

A 710-foot concrete dam on the Colorado River still had detonation cord sitting in several boreholes along the restricted road leading up to it, a bomb squad traced it back to the dam’s own construction, and the feds now have to decide whether to pull it out or set it off

11.04.2026
The Berkeley Pit lake in Butte, Montana, with the new pump station on the pit's south end

A 1,780-foot-deep copper pit in Montana went seven months without its pumps after part of its wall started to move, the acid lake inside climbed 3 feet, and the water in a flooded mine nearby now sits less than 26 feet below the line regulators say it can’t cross

11.04.2026
Aerial view of Navajo Dam in New Mexico, showing the earthfill embankment, the concrete spillway, the outlet works and the San Juan River below Navajo Lake

A 402-foot earth dam in New Mexico kept letting out just 250 cubic feet per second while up to 52,000 poured in, and its lake rose almost 43 feet in 13 days, catching 470,000 acre-feet as the towns below it flooded from rivers it doesn’t control

11.04.2026
Engineers inspect Cape Fear River Lock and Dam No. 1 in Bladen County, North Carolina (file photo)

A 111-year-old lock and dam that holds back a North Carolina river for the intakes feeding Wilmington’s drinking water has a channel carved under it by the current, and the Army Corps of Engineers says more erosion could undermine the riverbed holding it up

11.03.2026
A concrete caisson for the Ravenna breakwater being towed out of port by tugboats, September 27, 2026

A 174-foot concrete box that floats on its own was just towed at under one knot to a spot 5 miles off the Italian coast, tied to six buoys and sunk onto a seabed packed with 26,000 gravel columns, the third of 18 boxes forming a sea wall to shield a floating LNG terminal

11.03.2026
The Cloverlick Creek low-head dam and its old pumphouse near Bethel, Ohio

A 12-foot concrete dam more than 200 feet long will be notched to drain the pool it has held back for more than 80 years and then torn out with its old pumphouse, letting an Ohio creek run free into the lake that supplies drinking water to more than half the county

11.03.2026
Cooling towers of the Dukovany Nuclear Power Station in the Czech Republic, where ČEZ runs four VVER-440 reactors

A 512-megawatt reactor in the Czech Republic was unhooked from the grid one turbine at a time, at 12:42 and 2:06 in the morning, just six weeks after a two-month refueling outage, and it’s being cooled down so a small leaking valve found on a routine check can be fixed

11.03.2026
Hardy Dam powerhouse on the Muskegon River in Newaygo County, Michigan, one of 13 Consumers Energy hydro dams proposed for sale to Confluence Hydro

A 100-foot earthen dam holding back a nearly 4,000-acre Michigan lake is one of 13 hydro plants up to 120 years old headed for a private buyer, and if state regulators kill the sale, the utility that owns them could tear them out and let the lakes drain

11.03.2026
Crane lifting TVA's new 95,000-pound VAG butterfly valve, still shrink-wrapped on a wooden pallet, off an oversize-load trailer at Watauga Dam in Tennessee

A 95,000-pound valve is going into a Tennessee dam on bolts instead of rivets, because the 11-foot one it replaces was riveted to a pipe that runs 3,700 feet through a mountain and could only come out by cutting through the whole pipe

11.02.2026
Aerial view of the new labyrinth auxiliary spillway at Michigan's Edenville Dam, its zigzag concrete weir walls rising above the sloped chute and baffle blocks as crews finish construction

A 282-foot concrete spillway folded into zigzags now stands beside a Michigan dam that gave way and emptied its lake, and the folds stretch its spilling edge to 590 feet, so once a 200-year flood arrives it starts pouring water off on its own without anyone opening a gate

11.02.2026
Aerial view of EDF's Blayais nuclear power plant on the Gironde estuary in France, showing the four 900-megawatt reactor buildings with their domed containments and the newer blue-roofed safety buildings in late-afternoon sun

A 900-megawatt reactor on a French estuary shut itself down as crews readied one of its backup diesel generators for a routine test, 53 days after the same kind of check tripped it, and stayed off the grid for 92 hours with a sister unit already down for maintenance

11.02.2026
Aerial view of the production headframe at BHP's Jansen potash mine in Saskatchewan, with crawler cranes and self-propelled modular transporters setting a new headframe section in place

A 37-ton drill pulled a cutting head 112 feet up through the rock of a Canadian potash mine, then did it again right beside the first hole, turning the pair into one 49-foot-long chamber and dropping more than 6,000 tons of rock onto the level below

11.02.2026
The old Unit 6 turbine runner removed from its generator on the powerhouse floor at Fort Randall Dam in Pickstown, South Dakota

A 400-ton generator at a South Dakota dam was taken apart for the first time in 70 years, its 275-ton rotor lifted out by two cranes working as one, and the first new turbine runner just rolled into the powerhouse to take each unit up to 52 megawatts

11.02.2026
The Windscale reactor dome and plant buildings at the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria

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

11.01.2026
Inside the seawater intake pump station shaft at the Alkimos Seawater Desalination Plant north of Perth, where the tunnels under the seabed begin

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

11.01.2026
Pearson Drilling rig at Hidden Valley Lake, California, during Trane FLASHES pumped-hydro microgrid groundbreaking

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

11.01.2026
The rust-streaked lighthouse tender MV Cape Don moored at the old coal loader wharf at Waverton, Sydney Harbour, October 2026

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

11.01.2026
HDPE water pipe being installed by horizontal directional drilling

A 48-inch plastic water pipe was filled with 147,000 gallons of water so it wouldn’t float in the drilling mud while a rig pulled it 2,500 feet beneath a Florida creek, and the hole was bent down first and sideways second so the pipe never flexed both ways at once

11.01.2026
Aerial view of the James A. FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Scriba, New York, on the shore of Lake Ontario

Used control rod drives from an 842-megawatt reactor on Lake Ontario rode a truck about 750 miles to a shop in North Carolina, every reading on the package and the trailer passed, and the one spot over the limit was the driver’s cab, 2.2 millirem an hour against 2

11.01.2026
Aerial view of the Kidd Creek copper and zinc mine near Timmins, Ontario, with its shaft headframes and open pit

A 9,889-foot copper and zinc mine in northern Ontario that has given up more than 170 million tons of ore was due to shut in December, and the gold miner that took it over with the cleanup bill is keeping its ore trains running and plans to drill the deepest base-metal mine on Earth

11.01.2026
Aerial view of the Ludington Pumped Storage Plant on Lake Michigan, showing the powerhouse, the two jetties, the upper reservoir edge and the seasonal fish barrier net curving through the lake

A 2.5-mile fish net goes into Lake Michigan every spring to help keep fish out of six reversible turbines that pump water 363 feet uphill, and divers pressure-wash mussels off its 62 panels all summer before the whole barrier comes ashore for winter

11.01.2026
An aerial view of the MSC Baltic III wreck being dismantled in Cedar Cove, Newfoundland

A 679-foot container ship that won’t float has been dragged 557 feet toward a Newfoundland beach in pieces on the high tides, its stern now on the chains and moving too, and two thirds of the ship’s weight has already been cut away for scrap

10.31.2026
Aerial view of the Saltstone Disposal Units at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, with the filled 375-foot-wide SDU 6 at center

A 375-foot-wide concrete tank in South Carolina wrapped in 289 miles of wire has been topped off with nuclear-waste grout after eight years of pumping, as the plant feeding it ran 24 hours straight for the first time and sent 112,000 gallons in a single day

10.31.2026
The deteriorated concrete face and spillway of Lake Hodges Dam near Escondido

A 131-foot concrete dam, the only one in California rated unsatisfactory, will have its spillway cut 35 feet lower because its concrete is too deteriorated to repair, and until then a 36-inch pipe is what it relies on to drain the lake in a heavy storm

10.31.2026
Section of the new trash screen being lowered by crane into Lake Trevallyn at the Trevallyn Power Station intake in Tasmania

A 46-foot steel trash screen went together 59 feet under an Australian lake in eight panels, bolted in by divers who could see about 20 inches ahead, and when its thick paint left the frame bowed an inch, they loosened the bolts and winched it straight underwater

10.31.2026
Semi-transparent solar panels over apple trees at Obsthof Bernhard in Kressbronn, on the German shore of Lake Constance

6,300 see-through solar panels now stand over 5.2 acres of apple trees on a German lakeshore to shield them from hail, and a third of their power runs 1,640 feet down a cable to a packing house that sorts and chills fruit, all of it built without a subsidy

10.31.2026
Fervo Energy drilling rig at the Project Blanford geothermal site in Millard County, Utah

An 11,200-foot geothermal well drilled straight down into the Utah desert in under 11 days hit rock above 555 degrees, 155 degrees hotter than the rock feeding its driller’s new power plant one county south, and an outside review put the field at several gigawatts

10.31.2026
The blue low-pressure turbine casings in the turbine hall at TVA's Sequoyah Nuclear Plant in Tennessee

A 171-ton turbine rotor and two casings of 57 and 87 tons are riding a river towboat up from the Gulf Coast to a 1,160-megawatt Tennessee reactor sitting dark after a 470-day run, 315 tons in all, and the plant had more than 9,000 of the outage’s 11,400 jobs checked off before the barge arrived

10.30.2026
Siemens Gamesa 11-megawatt turbines at the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea

Hundreds of offshore wind turbines with 318-foot blades slowed to under two turns a minute off the Dutch coast for six hours one night so migrating birds could cross the North Sea, on a forecast that had to be locked in two days before the birds took off

10.30.2026
Floating solar panels on the De Dolten sand pit lake near Oudehaske, Netherlands

More than 55,000 floating solar panels cover half of an 82-foot-deep Dutch quarry lake, and three years of sensors found up to 41% less oxygen beneath them in winter and about a third less algae growth than in open water

10.30.2026
Rhinau Unit 1 Kaplan runner block and the EDF and ANDRITZ team at EDF's Rhine hydro plant in Alsace

A 243-ton turbine assembly nearly 24 feet across was lowered back into a French hydro plant with only millimeters between its blades and a new ring set in concrete, and the rebuilt unit later climbed to 45 megawatts on its way back to the grid

10.30.2026
Savannah River National Laboratory main building 773-A in A-Area at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina

A 75-year-old nuclear lab in South Carolina caught fire in one room and put a 310-square-mile federal site under emergency for more than four hours, with trains, barges and planes held off the area, and the Energy Department said the next day that nothing radioactive got out

10.30.2026
Hoover Dam powerhouse generator units on the Nevada wing, Lake Mead

A 726-foot dam on the Colorado River sits 3.4 feet above the line where 12 of its 17 turbines start chewing themselves up, after two storms pushed its lake up a foot in 13 days, and the government’s own sheet still has it under that line by six inches at the end of the year

10.30.2026
GE Haliade-X turbine at the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm south of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket

A 57-ton wind turbine blade snapped off Nantucket and covered the island’s beaches in fiberglass, and 72 more of the 351-foot blades had to come down off the towers at sea before all 62 turbines on America’s first big offshore wind farm could spin

10.29.2026
The steel arches of the new Portal North Bridge over the Hackensack River in New Jersey

A 116-year-old swing bridge that sometimes needed a hammer to get its rails lined up carried its last train over a New Jersey river, and for five weeks 400 trains a day squeeze over one track on the fixed bridge beside it, 50 feet above the water on three 400-foot steel arches

10.29.2026
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