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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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A 213-foot wind turbine blade on an extendable trailer negotiating a town intersection under escort in New South Wales

A 213-foot wind turbine blade weighing 22 tons can’t make the right turn at the roundabout outside a McDonald’s in a small Australian town, so the company trucking 141 of them 400 miles inland plans to lay 1,673 feet of new road through the back of town to skip the turn

10.21.2026
Typhoon 3000 jack-up barge Arklow Bank wind turbine

Seven 406-foot wind turbines stand bladeless six miles off the Irish coast after a jack-up barge climbed out of the sea on four legs and pulled 18 blades off them nine at a time, and their owner now wants the towers down too, warning the steel degrades faster every year it stands

10.21.2026
Deployable Energy Unity reactor

A fission reactor the size of a 20-foot shipping container went critical in Idaho 150 days after the project started, makes one megawatt, runs on the same 4.95 percent fuel every US plant already burns, and is now booked for a full-power run in 2027

10.21.2026
Chelated copper treatment station at Pillar Falls on the Snake River near Twin Falls, Idaho, used against quagga mussels

A fingernail-sized mussel survived three years of copper in the Snake River by hiding in rock cracks 18 to 25 feet down, so divers wedged bags of copper into the cracks for 96 hours while barges pumped more copper over them for three weeks, with 1,700 water users downstream

10.21.2026
The Holyoke Dam on the Connecticut River with its inflatable rubber crest sections along the top of the granite wall

A 30-foot dam on the Connecticut River gets its top 3.5 feet from five air-filled rubber bladders bolted along its crest, and after 25 years of pumping them up and letting them down with the river, a British company is bolting on new ones one span at a time, two of five done

10.21.2026
Rows of solar panels at the De Groene Energie Corridor solar farm beside the A9 near Zwanenburg, under the Schiphol approach

230,000 solar panels came out of a 247-acre field under the approach to Amsterdam’s airport after their glare shut the runway to landings for two hours on sunny mornings, and the replacements have etched glass that scatters the sun instead of bouncing it into cockpits

10.21.2026
The helix fish passage intake tower on the shore of Cle Elum Lake, with its six stacked intakes above the dam

A 117-piece concrete corkscrew sunk eight stories into a Washington lakeshore pulls year-old salmon in through six stacked doors as the water drops 100 feet a year, spins them down tail-first at 25 mph into a 1,250-foot tunnel, and about a million rode it this spring

10.21.2026
Saildrone Explorer Hobart Southern Ocean

A 23-foot drone sailboat left Tasmania to circle Antarctica alone for 200 days, met waves over 26 feet within days of leaving, and will log more than 13,000 miles measuring how much carbon the Southern Ocean swallows before coming back to swap its sensors

10.20.2026
HMS Protector Devonport tow October

A 5,000-ton British ice patrol ship that once pushed to within 650 miles of the North Pole came home at the end of a tow line after two years in and out of a shipyard, and the ship she replaced sat tied up for seven years before a tug took her away for scrap

10.20.2026
Greenland Wildlife Overpass I-25 CDOT

A 200-foot-wide bridge of dirt and grass carries elk and pronghorn over six lanes of a Colorado interstate that 100,000 vehicles cross a day, and in the 10 months since it opened drivers below have hit two animals, on a stretch that logged 32 wildlife crashes a year

10.20.2026
Ansaldo AE94.3A gas turbine rolling off the Terra Marique barge on a self-propelled transporter at Tarbert, County Kerry, Ireland

A 369-ton gas turbine came ashore on an Irish beach from a flat-bottomed barge that parked itself within three feet of its mark, settled on the sand as the tide went out and rolled it off over 82-foot ramps, because no road to the power plant could carry it

10.20.2026
Eavor Geretsried drilling rig

Two drilling rigs bored 31 miles of hole under a Bavarian town, two shafts 13,894 feet deep and twelve 2.2-mile side tunnels through 338-degree rock, in 27 months against 107 days planned, and the loop makes 2 megawatts of the 8.2 it was built for, so the rigs went home

10.20.2026
Dworshak Dam powerhouse

A 717-foot concrete dam in Idaho shut one of its 90-megawatt turbines after an oil cooler cracked and bearing oil ran out with the cooling water into the river that feeds the world’s largest steelhead hatchery two miles downstream, and the other 310 megawatts kept spinning

10.20.2026
Solar panels on concrete pergola frames over rows of Primitivo vines at the agrivoltaic vineyard in Laterza, Puglia

7,770 solar panels over an Italian vineyard cut the light under the heaviest rows to 5 percent, and the vines in the shade grew shoots nine feet long against four in the open sun, bunches two and a half times heavier, and fruit with three fewer degrees of sugar

10.20.2026
Smith Canal Gate Stockton miter gate SJAFCA

A 50-foot steel flood gate that protects 15,000 people in a California city could not be closed until divers scraped golden mussels off it, a fingernail-sized shellfish that turned up in the port two years ago and has spread 500 miles since, and the last scrape took ten hours

10.19.2026
Max Bögl Vestas Winnberg tower

An 820-foot wind turbine, the tallest in its German state, was taken apart by two cranes 30 months after it went up because the village two-thirds of a mile away could not sleep through its hum, and eight identical machines are going up a few miles away

10.19.2026
INL transformer shake table UC San Diego

A 500,000-pound transformer full of oil was bolted to a 40-by-25-foot steel table outside San Diego that can shake 4.5 million pounds in six directions at once and put through an earthquake on purpose, twice, because the grid waits five years for a replacement when one cracks

10.19.2026
ScottishPower Renewables East Anglia TWO HDD duct pull-in Thorpeness

A 5,883-foot plastic pipe 31.5 inches across, made in one piece straight out of a Norwegian factory into a fjord, was towed across the North Sea behind a tugboat and pulled under an English beach through a hole drilled from a field, and a second one followed it the same way

10.19.2026
Palisades fuel loading Holtec

A 12-foot bundle of 216 fuel rods leaning 30 degrees inside the first American reactor brought back from retirement will be laid flat in a 49,000-pound steel canister and hoisted out of the water by the crane that lifts the reactor head, a move no plant has made before

10.19.2026
Elephant Butte Dam low water Reclamation

A 301-foot dam on the Rio Grande was holding back 66 feet of water against a wall built for 197 when the leftovers of a Pacific hurricane tripled the lake behind it in a month and lifted the surface 20 feet, and the biggest reservoir in New Mexico is still under 5 percent full

10.19.2026
Liftra LT1500 climbing crane

A Danish crane clamps onto a wind turbine tower and winches itself up the outside with the next steel section hanging from it, climbing as the tower grows, built to set 132-ton parts on hubs 656 feet up and to arrive on 8 trucks where a crawler crane needs 50

10.19.2026
errenknecht AVN1000HR microtunneling machine used by Huxted Trenchless for the Dog River Reservoir intake tunnels in Douglas County, Georgia

An 8-ton German tunnel borer gripped the rock so its own cutting wheel couldn’t roll it over, cut three 51-inch water intakes under a Georgia reservoir and came out through the lakebed three times for divers to recover, on a dam being raised 35 feet to more than triple its storage

10.18.2026
Brunswick Topsham dam Androscoggin River Brookfield

A 19-megawatt dam on a Maine river ran one of its three turbines for four hours on a Saturday in the middle of a herring run of about a million fish, thousands of them came out the other side dead, and the owner shut the whole plant down and has kept it dark since to let the rest go by

10.18.2026
Glen Canyon Dam Lake Powell low water bathtub ring

A 710-foot dam on the Colorado River skipped the cold-water flush that stopped bass spawning two summers running, kept its eight turbines turning with the river below at 69 degrees, and a month later the lake behind it hit its lowest level since it first filled

10.18.2026
Koeberg nuclear power station Eskom

A 930-megawatt reactor on the South African coast was cut to half power when dead sardines packed its seawater intake and a cooling pump shut itself off, the only nuclear plant in Africa was already down to one machine with its twin in refueling, and on Friday that one tripped too

10.18.2026
eLLO solar thermal plant Llo Pyrenees mirrors

95,200 solar mirrors on a hillside in the French Pyrenees pack 547-degree heat into nine 31,700-gallon tanks of pressurized water that can keep a 10-megawatt turbine turning for four hours after sunset, and once the tanks are full the plant tips mirrors off the sun

10.18.2026
Herrenknecht AVN2000 microtunneling machine Winnipeg Red River

An 8-foot-wide boring machine dove 39 feet beneath a Canadian river on a 12 percent grade, ground 1,148 feet through rock rated at 36,000 psi, then climbed out the other side at 19.5 percent and left a 7-foot concrete sleeve for two sewer pipes

10.18.2026
ITER radial beam extraction tokamak pit sector module 5

A 1,100-ton slice of the biggest reactor ever built now stands on its own support in a concrete pit in southern France, and the 88-ton steel beam that held it against the wall for months came out on a crane in under two hours, the first of nine the welders need gone

10.18.2026
Maeslantkering closed aerial Rijkswaterstaat

Two hollow steel doors 689 feet long swung shut across the shipping channel into Rotterdam on 750-ton ball joints and sank to the bottom in a little over two hours, closed for a crowd with no storm in sight, and in 29 years the sea has forced them shut by itself exactly once

10.18.2026
Herrenknecht Avery TBM Southerly Tunnel Cleveland

An 800-ton boring machine with a 26-foot cutting wheel is more than halfway through 3.4 miles under Cleveland in clay its project manager compares to toothpaste, running three shifts because the ground starts squeezing shut around her whenever she sits still

10.17.2026
INL Moran fuel chopping decladding skid Magnox

3,428 pounds of reactor fuel rods from a Greek university, in a country that has never run a nuclear power plant, are being crimped, peeled like a banana and chopped by a machine on a steel frame in the Idaho desert, on fuel that was never inside a reactor

10.17.2026
High Prairie wind farm turbine collapse Schuyler County

A wind turbine with a 394-foot rotor folded over into a Missouri field on a Wednesday afternoon, the fourth tower to go down at the state’s biggest wind farm in a little over two years, on a 175-turbine site that had only 15 machines running after the last three fell

10.17.2026
pioneering spirit allseas

A 19,000-ton oil platform deck was lifted off its eight legs in seconds by a 1,253-foot ship that slid beams under it and jacked it 13 feet into the air, ending 42 years of pumping in the North Sea, and the ship has since been upgraded to pick up 66,100 tons in one go

10.17.2026
Idaho National Laboratory MARVEL microreactor

A 15-foot reactor cooled by a liquid metal that stays liquid at room temperature got its vessel delivered to an Idaho reactor built to break fuel on purpose, and will go critical in December dry, with no coolant inside, before the sodium-potassium is poured in to make heat

10.17.2026
University of Minnesota Morris solar panels dairy cows pasture

A 500-kilowatt field of solar panels on steel posts hammered 8 feet into a Minnesota pasture with no concrete rode out an 80-mph storm that wrecked trees and buildings around it, and the 275 dairy cows grazing under it breathe 12 fewer times a minute than cows left out in the sun

10.17.2026
USS Georgia SSGN-729 submarine

An 18,750-ton submarine, the biggest America ever built, came home for the last time after firing in the strikes on Iran, and the week she tied up the Navy signed for nine attack submarines that haul 40 cruise missiles apiece, four of them to match the 154 she carried alone

10.16.2026
Bruce Power Unit 4 reactor face calandria tubes

A six-axis robot arm fed 480 zirconium tubes, each 20 feet long with walls the thickness of a dime, through the face of an 855-megawatt Canadian reactor and rolled 960 joints to the same diameter with nobody standing in front of it, 25 days faster than its first try

10.16.2026
Thales Australia 3ME Technology BladeHAUL XL-UGV

An Australian ground drone built to haul a 20-foot shipping container clamped to its deck carries 22,000 pounds, nearly seven times the load of the biggest one Ukraine sends to the front, and can park beside a field hospital and keep it running off a 110-kilowatt-hour battery

10.16.2026
Plant Hatch nuclear Baxley Georgia

An 876-megawatt Georgia reactor was running at full power when an electrical jolt knocked its turbine offline at 4:14 in the afternoon, so the unit dropped its own control rods and dumped steam into a donut-shaped pool under the containment, and the twin next door never felt it

10.16.2026
Cascadilla Community Solar Farm Cornell sheep grazing Dryden

79,000 solar panels on a New York farm had two, four and eight sheep per 2.5 acres grazing under them for three summers, and the lightest flock left 38 percent more bees and ladybugs than a mower did while the heaviest kept the grass shortest and cut the honeybees nearly in half

10.16.2026
USS Connecticut SSN-22 Dry Dock 5 Puget Sound Naval Shipyard

A 9,138-ton nuclear attack submarine smashed her sonar dome and forward ballast tanks into an undersea mountain nobody had charted, limped home on the surface, and has sat on blocks in a Washington dry dock ever since, waiting for a nose the Navy has to build from scratch

10.16.2026
Framatome générateur de vapeur Paluel 3

Four 474-ton steam generators sailed around Spain and Portugal to reach a nuclear plant on the French coast, then crawled the last 22 miles by road over three days, an inch from a roadside cross, and will sit in storage for a year before the reactor shuts down to take them

10.16.2026
Mactaquac Generating Station NB Power

A 672-megawatt dam in Canada runs six turbines set in concrete that has been swelling from the inside for about 40 years, up to a fifth of an inch a year, knocking their shafts out of plumb, so engineers keep sawing slots through it with diamond wire

10.15.2026
Key Bridge rebuild steel piles Patapsco

A 170-ton steel pile 8 feet across slides more than 50 feet into a riverbed the consistency of oatmeal before a hammer drives it home, and 55% of those for the south tower are already in, next to the channel where a container ship took down Baltimore’s Key Bridge

10.15.2026
New Lock at the Soo construction

A 1,000-foot freighter going in or out of Lake Superior has exactly one lock it fits through, with 2.5 feet on each side, and the Army is halfway through the last phase of building it a 1,200-foot twin, because losing the first for weeks could idle 75% of US steel output

10.15.2026
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries steam generator Cruas

Three 365-ton steam generators, each as tall as a six-story building, crossed the world by ship and rode a river barge and a special trailer into a French nuclear plant, where they’ll sit in storage until the reactor shuts down for an eight-month overhaul

10.15.2026
herrenknecht tilly von cramberg machine

A 298-ton German machine named Tilly hammered a 160-year-old rail tunnel 6.6 feet wider on every side with only three people running her, and the trains kept rolling through a steel tube down her middle for most of the two years she spent in there

10.15.2026
University of Nottingham snake robot Dounreay

A 27-foot robot snake no wider than a quarter went into a sealed nuclear hot cell in Scotland carrying a 2.5-ounce radiation sensor and a camera, steered from the back by cables like a puppet, and two balloons inflate to prop it up and hold it still once it gets there

10.15.2026
Terrestrial Energy IMSR Plant

A 390-megawatt nuclear plant would burn natural gas before its reactors ever split an atom, with the turbines built and selling power while two molten salt cores still wait on a license, and each of them gets pulled out and replaced every seven years

10.15.2026
Acesur Vilches paneles greening

A Spanish olive oil bottler is raising 5,150 solar panels 13 feet over trees that stop growing at six and a half, because the straddle harvester that clamps each trunk and shakes the fruit loose stands 11.5 feet at full stretch, and every tree stays in the ground

10.15.2026
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