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A Dutch contractor just dropped 300,000 tons of rock onto 52 offshore wind foundations off the Dutch coast, more than four times the weight of the steel it is protecting, because the water running past each 30-foot pile digs a pit the tide never fills back in
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@christopherfole ROOKIE · 6 hours
I wonder how much tidal energy they are missing out on utilizing in that location . Anchoring water turbines is the main expense and they ar…
A 7-foot machine with nobody inside just passed under a Seattle main street, shoved forward by hydraulic jacks parked in a shaft weeks behind it — it has no engine, and the concrete pipe it drags along is both the tunnel and the drivetrain
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@catherinebasset ROOKIE · 19 hours
Hi, Interesting article! if you want to learn more about the SR99 Seattle tunnel and the hard but ultimately successful Bertha drive, take a…
A 4.4-ton steel ball hanging off a 198-ton cable excavator has been swinging into the 31-inch concrete shell of a German reactor building since March, and it is not there to bring it down, only to crack it open for the shears
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@paulharrow ROOKIE · 1 day
There's a job AI can't do.
@joecallahan ROOKIE · 1 day
Why are the people that write about construction projects so ignorant.
For some reason every piece of equipment they see is a bulldozer or…
mikeconley DRIVER · 12 hours
And people are so worried about an aircraft strike on a reactor. Containment domes such as this one used to be called impact domes.
An 860-ton machine arrived in the Nevada desert on 50 trucks, spun 48 cutter wheels through volcanic rock at 18 feet an hour for 31 months, and cut a five-mile horseshoe 984 feet down that now has barn owls living in it
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@joeamos ROOKIE · 2 days
50 trucks to move 850 tons yet they managed to move over 800 ton blocks in Lebanon thousands of years ago all done with ropes and pulleys.
@stevenquintana ROOKIE · 2 days
Look up WIPP in New Mexico, it stores military radiological waste. So these five states are not the only places where it can be stored
Toronto cools its downtown with 39-degree water pulled from 270 feet down in Lake Ontario, three miles offshore, and once it has chilled a hospital, an arena and a hall of AI servers, it goes into the city’s drinking supply
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@jamesdalziel ROOKIE · 2 days
Let ‘s not get too clever on this. Remember nuclear power?
@agirobotics ROOKIE · 1 day
data centers should be built at the water pumping station.
Maserati just refreshed its entire 2027 lineup without a single new car, pushing the V6 close to 600 horsepower and betting a meaner shark-nose front can finally crack America
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@jl ROOKIE · 2 days
These reviews are not really useful, opinions are so individual. What makes a car good depends on what you want from your driving experienc…
Frankfurt Airport stood 37,000 solar panels dead upright along 2,800 meters of a runway, edge-on to the sun, so the array gives up the middle of the day on purpose and comes out as a camel with two humps instead of one
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@ikebroflovski ROOKIE · 2 days
This is not efficient in the least. Research was done on this long ago.
@michaelward ROOKIE · 2 days
Instead of having pv panels on both sides of a vertical array, why not just flip one array at noon?
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
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@gregzeng ROOKIE · 3 days
So many nations need this active border sentry. Here in Australia, there are drug smugglers, illegal immigrants, etc.
We need base station…
@leighdawkins ROOKIE · 3 days
Written in an easily understandable style and very informative 👍🏻
A 190-foot free-fall tower drops riders inside the cooling tower of a 327-megawatt German reactor that was finished, filled with liquid sodium and never handed a single fuel rod, and a Dutch scrap dealer bought the site for about $3 million
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billfortune ROOKIE · 3 days
"reporters" apparently can't bring themselves to tell people that the BN-600 has been operating since 1980 & is scheduled to operate for ano…
Rock at the bottom of an Arizona copper shaft cooks at 175 degrees nearly 7,000 feet down, and chilling it for a working mine would take more than 140 megawatts of refrigeration, about forty thousand tons of it, running for the life of the mine
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goat ROOKIE · 3 days
Hot enough to make steam? Sounds like it's ripe to become a geothermal energy plant?
A 22-ton yellow Canadian machine called Iceberg is parked on land in California with no motor, no battery and nothing to plug into, built to sit offshore and turn 13,200 gallons of the Pacific into fresh water a day
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@byronwelch ROOKIE · 3 days
Green boondoggle. Mendacity abounds.
@montitate ROOKIE · 3 days
Reverse osmosis is the worst way to do the job in the first place. Distilling produces water, salt, and other minerals that can be used. It …
@alawishesalibab ROOKIE · 3 days
Fort Bragg is an Army base in Fayetteville North Carolina!!!
A 606-ton steel can 98 feet long is taking shape in an Ontario factory, the piece that turns Canada’s first small modular reactor from a hole in the ground into a machine, and exactly one shop on the continent has started one
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@malcolmnovar ROOKIE · 4 days
Why not stick with the CANDU reactors? They are proven decade after decade! A Gold Standard!
While America just signed the construction contract for its first stretch of true high-speed track, China says the train it built to carry passengers at 249 mph has cleared its type tests and is halfway through the trial mileage required before anyone boards
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@jaysonosmars ROOKIE · 4 days
Canada planning their high speed rail system need to hire Chinese consultants since they know how to do it right.
While a Porsche 911 Turbo S costs $270,300 to reach 200 miles an hour, Chevrolet just got there for $73,495 with a naturally aspirated 6.7-liter V8 making 535 horsepower and no turbo anywhere on it
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@dougshanko ROOKIE · 4 days
Costs. Best high powered ev are y and 3 performance and mach e GT rally at under $60k in US . 5 years in with a GT Performance model 480hp …
@davidb ROOKIE · 3 days
I'll believe that when I see it. New Corvettes here are between $164,000 and $320,000 and the dealerships are adding an ADM fee equal to the…
A 535-horsepower Corvette with a 6.7-liter V8 was doing 130 on County Road 13 North in Florida, a two-lane road posted at 45, and the deputy who stopped it waved away the insurance papers and cuffed the driver
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@robstack ROOKIE · 4 days
Where are car guys able to publicly enjoy high speeds? Exactly. Non are offered. Provide it. Germany is laughing at us with their areas of n…
@bretthusebye ROOKIE · 2 days
I was working late at Chrysler and my end time was between 2am and 3am. I had seen 2 drunks in that time one lady in s Toyota and one ass i…
An aquarium pump on the shore of an Ontario pond blew bubbles under 40 floating solar panels all winter and kept the ice off them for 1.9 kilowatt-hours, less than a fiftieth of a percent of what they generated
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@mikethompson ROOKIE · 4 days
Here in Maryland our better oriented systems annually generate 1,400 kwhrs per KW. I am surprised this project is getting 1,100 kwhrs/KW or…
A 43-foot steel beam weighing 15,890 pounds rides 4,850 feet down an old South Dakota gold mine standing upright in a cage 4.5 feet wide, one of roughly 2,100 pieces that have to make the same trip before summer ends
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@donaldpedersen ROOKIE · 5 days
Are you kidding?? Very hard to wrap my head around this. It reads like the crazed thoughts of a mad scientist. 10 million tons of steel!! 80…
@brionfranks ROOKIE · 3 days
I worked at Fermilab in the '80s on the team that built the superconductor magnets that contained the beams of matter and anti matter.
SO…
A volcano the size of Rhode Island in central Oregon holds rock at 629 degrees just 9,800 feet down, and a Texas company cracked it open with two wells and pumped water through the gap at 100 feet an hour
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@markrad ROOKIE · 5 days
Very informative article however I just don't see how drilling into a active volcano is a good idea, whoopsie! we made a big mistake.
I won…
@matthewmattb ROOKIE · 4 days
Its a high risk-high reward type of project. I trust these companies are doing their best not to make a "whoops!".
While China holds its floating turbines steady with 15,000 tonnes of concrete moored off Guangdong, a startup in a northern Portuguese port is betting most of that mass is dead weight, and plans to prove it with a counterweight and three arms
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@johnnicholas ROOKIE · 5 days
But it takes energy to shift the counterweight so it stays balanced.
The world’s first plant making electricity from salt water meeting fresh sits in a small blue building on a Dutch dike, switched on by a king in 2014, and hitting its own 50-kilowatt label would take 37 football fields of membrane
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@judiphillips ROOKIE · 7 days
If the world is serious about using sea water to produce electricity, we need investors, governments, engineers, inventors to get together …
Australia built the receiver for a solar tower running on liquid sodium, a metal liquid from 208 to 1,621 degrees Fahrenheit, and while the finished machine sits in a Brisbane suburb, its land just signed up for AI data centers
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@stewarteastman ROOKIE · 7 days
Concentrated solar power, at least the kind with mirrors pointed at a tower, is a failed dead end. Such things are to be expected as new tec…
While America’s 80-ton drone submarine runs on diesel and batteries, the German hydrogen one is built to hold sixteen weeks below without surfacing once, and the first two governments buying it will not say who they are
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simonrockman ROOKIE · 1 week
What I don't get with autonomous submarines is how they communicate without giving their location away. With a manned submarine you can leav…
A German box on the back of a crewless boat opens in under 30 seconds, throws a drone into the air and catches it again on a deck pitching at 15 knots, guided down by a laser reading the drop to the width of three stacked pennies
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@azack ROOKIE · 1 week
This article must be a translation written by a child. Describing 1990's technology is interesting to who? A modern display of drone tech is…
@wandajean ROOKIE · 1 week
Is Canada not involved?
@bvonm ROOKIE · 7 days
Qrka is a Croatian drone firm.. so you're missing something
Lotus fans keep begging for a V8 Emira, and the factory answered with two fewer cylinders: a 416-hp 2.0-liter it calls the fastest four-cylinder production car on Earth, 186 mph flat out and 60 in 3.7 seconds
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@cordellesplin ROOKIE · 1 week
Turbo lag! Boo!
A California data center has run for two years with no power line at all, making its own electricity from hydrogen and cooling its 1,800 GPUs with the water that drips out of the fuel cells, and it just ordered stacks for a bigger one
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@nealtwain ROOKIE · 1 week
Don't extinguish fires cause no water
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
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@tricia ROOKIE · 1 week
Would love to see a visual as well.
@kelly ROOKIE · 1 week
Show a photo of the panel in upright sail mode!!!???
You’d think car colors would get more fun over time. A study of 22 million used cars says the opposite: gray grew sixfold since 1996, and the top color on American sports cars isn’t redComment on the article →
@simonrockman ROOKIE · 1 week
When I was shopping for my Miata my colour preference was anything other than silver, but the right one in age mileage and condition came up…
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
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@bellscraig ROOKIE · 1 week
What I would like to know is whether or not it would produce more hydrogen than required to run the machine... Such as can the hydrogen that…
@jomccroskey ROOKIE · 1 week
Excellent article! Very informative and interesting. Please keep publishing this type of news.
@robertfisher ROOKIE · 1 week
Isn't sodium hydroxide an unwanted byproduct of electrolysis of offshore wind turbine generators that convert electricity to alternative fue…
A factory-stock electric Lotus just beat the Tesla EV lap record at Sepang by more than seven seconds, a 905-horsepower sedan with zero track modifications taking down a Model 3 that was stripped and rebuilt specifically to hold it
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@michaeljohnson ROOKIE · 1 week
Did not know that Ed Sheeran has a side hustle
A turbine the size of half a basketball court has sat invisible on an Alaskan riverbed since 2019, powering a village of 70 where diesel lands 2,000 gallons at a time on old DC-4 planes, and Congress just moved to stop licensing it like Hoover Dam
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@ryancounts ROOKIE · 1 week
I would think that alternative energy production would have greater offset percentages due to the logistics involved in the fuel transport b…
A salmon farm above the Arctic Circle, where January gives under five hours of daylight, now pulls more than 90% of its power from floating solar ringed around the pens, and the diesel generator that ran around the clock has barely turned over since
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@paulmockett ROOKIE · 1 week
The Norwegian farm is either south of the Arctic circle or it has winter days with zero sunlight hours because the Arctic circle defines the…
@timmthyme ROOKIE · 1 week
Pity that the hundreds of thousands of tonnes of fish sewage are left to foul the seafloor directly underneath the fish farm cages.
This …
A desalination pod designed to trade power-hungry pumps for the weight of 1,300 feet of ocean just cleared its first endurance run, three months at 93% uptime, and gets lowered into Santa Monica Bay this fall for the test that counts
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@larryblue ROOKIE · 2 weeks
I have doubt about the physics itself. Any water filters through the membrane needs to be pumped up to the surface. The energy available at …
elholands ROOKIE · 1 week
As. My (home) osmosis works with normal water mains pressure 5 to 6 bar Im pretty sure you don't have to sink the pods toall the way to 400m…
A 165-ton nuclear cask that fits in a two-car garage but weighs as much as two Abrams tanks just got a British ship rebuilt around it, holds re-machined to the millimeter, to haul Japanese reactor fuel across the planet to France
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@stubarrett ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Machined to the millimeter... Lol
Six seabed turbines built for a French strait where the current outruns most sailboats just got stuck on a single missing document, with every permit signed, the shipyard waiting 20 miles up the coast and the tide arriving on schedule twice a day
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@manfredknorr ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Lots of text but what are they waiting on to get signed? So irritating writing an article and then not answering the question in the title.
@michaelporter ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Has anyone studied the effect of taking all that energy out of the tidal flows? How will it impact the ecology of the are?
A Texas Man Just Drove His Tesla Cybertruck Into a Lake to Test Its ‘Wade Mode’ Feature. The Truck Shut Down and Began Filling With Water. Tesla’s Warranty Does Not Cover Water Damage
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@khaderkhan ROOKIE · 2 weeks
If you're gonna be dumb you got be rich.
@khaderkhan ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Wade mode... Like you know, wading waders? 3 feet or below. And just because your car/truck has an emergency function doesn't mean you test …
@morisdigiovanni ROOKIE · 3 days
If he fills it with rice, it’ll be okay. 🤣🤣😅😅😂😂
A nuclear reactor shelved almost a decade ago just got pulled out of retirement to float on a barge, with a UK company studying how to build the whole plant inside a shipyard like a ship and tow it to any port the grid can’t reachComment on the article →
mikeconley DRIVER · 2 weeks
Water-mobile nuclear power can be docked at any port, providing 24/7/365 local power without expanding our energy production footprint -- un…
A German fusion company just topped out a laser lab on a Colorado hillside built to fire a burst 5,000 times the entire US power grid onto a speck the width of a hair, ten times a second, the trick that turns a physics demo into a power source
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hanswolfgangsch DRIVER · 2 weeks
The most important part is how is the fusion energy recovered? And the current efficiency readings?
Michigan just cleared the way to bury a 73-year-old oil pipeline under the Great Lakes in a four-mile tunnel, dug by a machine 500 feet long, nearly two football fields, tended by divers who live in pressurized chambers for weeks 270 feet down
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@leonardpage ROOKIE · 2 weeks
you blew half of it. the machine will be boring ,mostly thru unconsolidatd materials and occasional methane pockets. this is dangerous w…
A Canadian lab just ran a chemical process on real spent nuclear fuel and pulled out 90% of the long-lived danger in 24 hours, the part that forces a burial site to last 100,000 years, with the leftovers meant to fuel a reactor
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@cmaenergy ROOKIE · 2 weeks
The dumb and stupid in control of nuclear waste have no brains, They will force the younger generation to pay for their waste while they pro…
homer10 DRIVER · 2 weeks
I've heard that molten salt reactors can burn fissile atoms down to almost nothing. What little is left can be recycled back in to be burnt …
@marchutton ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Even the most remote chance that this version of reprocessing nuclear reactor waste would result in Pu being put in the hands of terrorists …
California just opened the first factory built to mass-produce fusion fuel pellets by the million, paired with a laser designed to fire ten times a second instead of the once a day the famous 2022 fusion shot could manage
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@stevesavage ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Ah commercial-scale fusion. It’s always just 10 years away…
A robot shaped like a metal giraffe swims into Japan’s nuclear reactors, grabs the steel wall with vacuum-pad feet and reads the welds with an ultrasonic wand, soaking up a radiation dose that would kill the person who’d otherwise do it
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@stevehoffmanniv ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Wonderful inspection technique, but coupons extracted regularly,of the welded vessel materials, are also important to evaluate potential neu…
South Korea just lined up one of the planet’s biggest shipyards to weld nuclear reactors onto barges and float them out like cargo ships, a Danish design stacked two to eight per hull, up to 800 megawatts a platform
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braddavis ROOKIE · 2 weeks
How much is electricity produced by these barges expected to cost and how does the lifetime carbon emissions look like compared to alternati…
mikeconley DRIVER · 2 weeks
The lifetime carbon emissions for MSRs is even less than it is for light-water reactors. An LWR's lifecycle carbon emissions are on the orde…
Bavaria roofed 35 meters of highway in solar glass and then did what almost no green-energy pilot does — it published the bill: 4.2 million euros, which works out to 20,000 euros per kilowatt, more than ten times what the same panels cost lying in a field
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@craigbrunetti ROOKIE · 2 weeks
You blew it. The canopy panels were mostly transparent, therefore making very little electricity as compared to ground-mounted opaque panels…
A 105-meter wind turbine tower made of laminated spruce has been spinning outside a Swedish town for 15,000 hours, stronger by the pound than the steel it replaces and emitting 90 percent less carbon — because a steel tower gets too wide to truck down a road past about 100 meters
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@charlespate ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Remember when we switched from paper to plastic to save the trees?
@garettschmidt ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Nothing saves the environment, like cutting down the trees that are the carbon sink for an 18-25% efficient wind gearbox. Well done oh virtu…
China put almost four new car models on the market every single day in the first half of 2026, some 650 of them, while the entire United States is on track to launch 159 over four years — and Chinese buyers treat them like sneaker drops, not investments
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@alexandermaunu ROOKIE · 2 weeks
In China, only the wealthy drive cars. The license lottery is so restricting that only about 1 in a thousand applicants get a license. Those…
A 1.9-ton torpedo is 650 pounds of bomb bolted to $4.2 million of guidance America builds 79 times a year, and the one that missed an Iranian frigate in March is still down there — a Rhode Island plant is pressing flat-sided boxes instead, the way IKEA presses shelving
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@billb ROOKIE · 2 weeks
One fact missed is how deep the torpedo is. On the seabed means a lot, not!
@karlschneider ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Isn't a torpedo that is recoverable by the US military recoverable by anyone else too?
Two 2,600-ton German machines are grinding out the last 6 kilometers of the longest railway tunnel ever dug, 64 kilometers under the Alps built to take the trucks off the pass overhead — where one still crosses every 12 seconds, around the clock, all year
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irabloomgarden DRIVER · 2 weeks
Quite a massive project for a dying continent. Of course we can do it bigger and better. We are Americans, the best at everything. Just ask …
@jimrussell ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Really! Is there no longer ANYTHING that doesn't get politicized? Even a engineering triumph as this and somehow, someway you had to throw…
irabloomgarden DRIVER · 2 weeks
Er, I was being a tad ironic. Perhaps too subtle. Guilty. To be plain: the German engineering feat is a triumph that should lead to signific…