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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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Sandia National Solar Thermal Test Facility heliostat field

An 18-inch ceramic disc printed from silicon carbide sat on a tower ringed by 218 mirrors in the New Mexico desert, and the mirrors took two days to line up on it. Its face hit 2,534 degrees, the air coming out the back left at 1,562, and the program had paid for 2,012

09.06.2026
hanford sy-101 pump removal

While a 4.6-ton robot arm goes in through a 22-inch hole at Fukushima for a few grams, crews at Hanford just lifted a 50-foot, 10-ton pump out of a radioactive waste tank, drilled holes in it on the way up to drain the liquid inside, and did in one day what they rehearsed for two years

09.06.2026
MBARI long range AUV drone

A 250-pound drone keeps working through 30-foot seas that would send a survey ship back to port, and the only moment weather can touch it is when it surfaces every six hours to talk, so if the pickup boat cannot come out it lands on the bottom and sleeps

09.06.2026
Magura MV11 UFORCE drone boat

A 39-foot drone boat that used to drive explosives into the sides of Russian warships now carries 18 nine-pound interceptors standing upright in boxes on its deck, and a pilot as far as 1,240 miles away flies each one into whatever comes in over the sea

09.06.2026
Impossible Metals Eureka II

A 10.5-foot, 8,710-pound seabed drone found its own ship off Nova Scotia, latched onto a camera-guided hook and rode onto the deck with nobody at the controls. That job is still done by crews leaning over the rail with poles, on a machine built to pick potato-sized rocks off the ocean floor

09.05.2026
dhp Technology Solarfaltdach ARA Thunersee

A 63-ton curtain of 504 solar panels will hang from steel cables 14.3 feet above an open tank of sewage in Vienna and pull itself back in 30 seconds when hail rolls in, because crews have to see the scum on the surface, and the whole thing makes what 25 American homes use in a year

09.05.2026
Glen Canyon Dam Lake Powell

A 710-foot concrete wall on the Colorado River has 27.85 feet of water left above the line where its eight turbines shut down before vapor bubbles pit the steel. The lake behind it sits 40 feet from the bottom of a gauge never built to read water that low

09.05.2026
ORNL electroformed HIP can

A 6-inch nickel can grew in a bath around a plastic mold, and acid dissolved the mold out from inside, leaving a container with no weld anywhere on it. Oak Ridge packed it with powder and squeezed out a 15.7-pound block of solid metal for a reactor

09.05.2026
Westinghouse AP1000 module lift

A spring inside a nuclear plant breaker got acrylic paint instead of dye, the paint can flake into the contacts, and a breaker that still opens on demand may refuse to close, the move that powers the emergency pumps, so 13 plants from New Hampshire to Arizona have to check theirs

09.05.2026
HII Watcher ROMULUS

A 27-foot drone boat from a Canadian fireboat builder crossed hundreds of miles of open water alone and ran down a ship trying to get away, and the Pentagon put it in writing six years after a boat with the same name and builder guarded a missile range off Oahu for 30 days

09.05.2026
uk geothermal cornish nuclear

A 6,560-foot hole in Cornish granite came up with 158-degree water carrying 100 parts per million of lithium, and a well in the same rock pulls 340. So a small British company hired a Texas oilfield crew to sink two more holes and pump for three months

09.05.2026
elastocaloric cooling device KIT

A 22-micrometer strip of nickel-titanium shortens on its own when a 266-degree plate warms it, and it yanks a second strip that snaps back 4 degrees colder than the room. The cooler built around the pair has no motor in it and moves 2.79 milliwatts

09.05.2026
New Colgate Powerhouse penstock

A 14-foot pipe drops water 800 feet down a California hillside in a single mile to spin two 18-foot wheels, and when it split in February it put 130 million gallons on that hillside at once. Seven months later nobody has touched the pipe

09.04.2026
Hydro Tasmania Gordon Power Station valve

A 110-ton valve is the only thing between a Tasmanian turbine and the lake sitting 600 feet above it, and this one sailed out of Belgium and around Africa before spending its hardest hour on the last 0.6 miles, through a tunnel nobody ever sized for it

09.04.2026
Sellafield SIXEP plant

Britain is dropping 14 modules of 17.6 tons apiece and a 60.6-ton gantry crane into the building that replaces the filter cleaning its most hazardous nuclear site, now three quarters built — the old one was designed for 25 years, has run 41, and nothing takes over until 2030

09.04.2026
Newlight hydrogen marine system

A 62,900-ton bulk carrier crossed 8,500 nautical miles from Singapore to Ghana on 24 percent less oil, after a hydrogen rig went on in two weeks with the ship still floating and nothing in the hull or the engine touched

09.04.2026
Fervo Energy Cape Station drilling rig Utah

A well 19,448 feet long, drilled straight down into Utah and then turned sideways for 7,500 feet of it, is pushing water into rock at 460 degrees and taking it back out at more than 400, on rigs and pumping spreads that came out of the oil patch. There is no oil under it

09.04.2026
NuScale power module

A reactor that gets colder is a reactor that wants to start back up, so baskets of ceramic pellets bolted to a 700-ton containment wall dissolve into the steam running down it and feed boron back into a core that has 76 feet of vessel above it, with no pump in the chain

09.04.2026
Stormborn Xwave drone

A Danish drone boat sitting at anchor in the Baltic filmed a 330-foot Russian corvette running past at 650 feet with its transponder off, tagged the crew and the helicopter on the pad, and got the quadcopter wrong, from a hull 39 feet long that travels on a trailer

09.04.2026
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, ships on an ordinary truck, swaps its core every five years and runs on the same 4.95 percent fuel every US plant already burns

09.04.2026
Prodigy Clean Energy transportable nuclear power plant rendering

A 50-megawatt nuclear station gets built inside a shipyard, sails to the Canadian coast as cargo on a heavy-lift ship and gets bolted to the shore before a single fuel pellet goes near it, and sails off to a factory to be taken apart when it dies

09.03.2026
Metropolis Works Honeywell plant

An American startup says it made uranium hexafluoride without touching elemental fluorine, the element every other converter has to brew on site by running current through acid, and it wants a pilot plant in Idaho making 550 tons of uranium a year. It has not said how, or how much it made

09.03.2026
solar car aptera

A three-wheeled solar car made its biggest number on the dimmest of the three days an outside lab measured it, pulling 4,754.2 watt-hours under 506 of sun per square foot against 537 the day before, because crews raised the hatch and turned the car

09.03.2026
DC Water tunnel boring machine Mary

A 706-foot borer went down a 100-foot shaft in Washington in pieces and got bolted together inside the tunnel it was already digging, and it now has 350 feet left before it parks underground for more than two months to be rebuilt for rock

09.03.2026
Hexium laser isotope separation

America’s 64 pressurized water reactors get through about 660 pounds of enriched lithium a year between them, a single molten salt reactor would want tens of tons of it on its own, and nothing on American soil has made the stuff since the Kennedy administration

09.03.2026
BWRX-300 reactor GE Vernova rendering

A Swedish industrial park cuts up dead reactors for a living, taking pieces 98 feet long and 440 tons heavy, sandblasting them and melting 5,500 tons of the metal into ingots a year, and the company that owns the ground now wants four working reactors standing on it

09.03.2026
Posiva deposition hole boring machine

An 86-ton borer has cut the hole that will take a 27-ton canister of spent nuclear fuel, 27.6 feet deep and 5 feet 9 inches wide in granite that formed 1.9 billion years ago, and it is allowed to wander less than an inch off vertical the whole way down

09.02.2026
Palisades nuclear plant Michigan Holtec

A crane lowered eight 12-foot fuel bundles into a reactor on the Lake Michigan shore on Sunday, 196 short of a full core, four years after the vessel was emptied for scrapping, and some of the bundles going back in are the ones that were in it when it shut down

09.02.2026
Standard Lithium El Dorado plant

Water left over from a sea that covered the Gulf 150 million years ago is coming up Arkansas wells carrying 400 milligrams of lithium a liter, five times the commercial floor, and oil and bromine crews pumped 5,000 tons of it up in one year and put every ounce back

09.02.2026
ORNL pellet injector fusion

A coal hall that pushed 865 megawatts into the Tennessee grid for 56 years now has two machines moving into it and neither one makes a watt, and the one that eventually will is going to shoot frozen hydrogen pellets into a plasma at 180 million degrees

09.02.2026
TouchWind TW6 turbine

A 19.7-foot rotor floating on a Dutch lake tilts back toward horizontal when the wind gets up instead of parking the way every offshore turbine does, and it makes 12 kilowatts against the 15,000 of the 774-foot rotor it is meant to replace one day

09.02.2026
Vigna Agrivoltaica Laterza

An Italian professor measured the ground under 7,770 solar panels running 36 degrees cooler than open dirt a short walk away, took the reading at 11 in the morning on an unusually hot day, and says shading past 30 percent starts costing the grower fruit

09.02.2026
Helmerich Payne FlexRobotics robotic arm

A robotic arm on a Texas rig picks up 30-foot joints of pipe weighing 2,000 pounds and makes the connection on a floor where a third of all drilling injuries have happened, and the floorhand who used to stand there now works a touchscreen while Houston steers from across the state

09.01.2026
KRONOS microreactor NANO Nuclear

Illinois wants to set a 45-megawatt reactor next to the coal boilers that have heated 150 campus buildings since 1941, with the fuel pellet doing the job of the containment dome and no emergency power on the list at all — first safety evaluation February 2027, and nobody has run one of these anywhere

09.01.2026
St. Lucie nuclear plant Florida

A Florida reactor was running at full power when three control rods dropped into the core with nobody asking for them, and nothing holds those rods up but a magnet, so the crew tripped the unit by hand at 9:47 in the morning and the same drop hit the same unit in 2024

09.01.2026
SGL Carbon graphite blocks

A block of graphite baked at 5,430 degrees both slows the neutrons and holds up the core of an American reactor, and every one of them starts in a French Alpine shop that fell to 30 percent of capacity last year, nearly shut, and has since hired fifteen people

09.01.2026
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.

09.01.2026
Hornbeck Offshore supply vessel reactor deployable

A 1-megawatt reactor packed into a 20-foot container is going aboard a Gulf supply boat, five months after the same design went critical at Idaho and made no usable electricity at all, and no date or port has been named for it

08.31.2026
Princess Elisabeth Island caisson

Twenty-three concrete boxes weighing 24,250 tons each were floated 28 miles into the North Sea and sunk by filling them with sand until they stopped moving, and not one turbine inside the ring they close belongs to anybody yet

08.31.2026
Splash Typhoon USV

An 11-foot drone boat rated for 690 miles and 58 mph is going after a Pentagon prize whose floor is 230 miles and 12 mph, with a launcher for one-way attack drones bolted to its deck and no published count of how many it carries

08.31.2026
SOLARCYCLE recycling plant georgia

1,222 tons is what Korea threw away in solar panels last year, a Korean smelter wants 120,000 tons a year of the stuff by 2030, and the gap gets filled by American panels sailing 6,330 miles from four shredding plants on US soil

08.31.2026
Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project dam

A 440-foot wall across a Tanzanian gorge backs up a reservoir rated for 1.5 million acre-feet more than Lake Mead, and the last of its nine turbines had been spinning for sixteen months before anyone cut the ribbon

08.31.2026
ap300 westinghouse reactor

While four American microreactors were going critical this summer, a British startup was heating molten salt in a mass spectrometer outside Cambridge to work out which metals it eats, on a reactor meant to run fuel that pulses to 22,000 megawatts and stops itself

08.31.2026
RWE agrivoltaico Morcone Benevento

32,500 solar panels now stand 10 feet above alfalfa, oats, broad beans, rosemary and chamomile in southern Italy, under rules that set a tractor’s clearance as the legal floor and force 70 percent of the ground to stay farmed, and no harvest has been weighed

08.31.2026
Antares Mark-0 Idaho National Laboratory

265 pounds of leased government uranium went critical under an Idaho shed, on a machine with no turbine, no cooling loop and no way to move heat out of its core, and it cleared its environmental review as a laboratory experiment

08.30.2026
Focused Energy laser Rochester

864,000 shots a day is what a commercial laser fusion plant needs, the only machine that has ever pulled more energy out of a target than it put in fires about 400 times a year, and the site picked to close that gap is a reactor switched off in 2011

08.30.2026
Constellation Energy Center transformer

A 500,000-pound transformer came off a ship in Baltimore, a barge in Newark and a train in Middletown before crawling onto Three Mile Island at 5 miles an hour, and the executive watching it arrive was the man who told the staff in 2019 the plant was closing

08.30.2026
Seaturns S1 demonstrator

A 46-ton steel cylinder rocks end over end in the Atlantic 17 miles off the French coast, sloshing a water pendulum that squeezes air through a turbine with no gearbox and no magnets in it, and all 200 kilowatts it makes are dumped, because no cable runs to shore

08.30.2026
Herrenknecht Debohra U2 Vienna

A 1,430-ton machine named Debohra finished one tunnel under Vienna and could not reverse, so crews took her apart, drove the pieces seven miles across the city on a ten-axle low loader, dragged her trailing gantries back through the hole she had just dug, and started her again

08.30.2026
Bunker Hill Mining first concentrate shipment

A truck pulled out of Kellogg on July 31 with the first concentrate that mine has produced in 45 years, carrying lead, zinc and silver that Washington added to its critical minerals list in November, and drove 140 miles north into Canada because no American plant will take it

08.29.2026
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