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How to disable the driver monitoring system in a 2026 Subaru WRX
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simonrockman DRIVER · 9 hours
The most gentle nag is in a Rolls Royce. When you have been driving non stop for a few hours it displays a silver teapot and suggests stoppi…
A 3.6-ton mirror three inches thick sits on a Maui volcano collecting sunlight, and keeping it from cooking itself takes seven miles of coolant pipe, thirteen separate temperatures and about a swimming pool of ice made fresh every night
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@lisavenusthesun ROOKIE · 1 day
I think they should prob cut the check already. 17 mil still sounds like a deal.
@lisavenusthesun ROOKIE · 1 day
17 mil sounds like they got a hellova deal.
@cowboymatt ROOKIE · 24 hours
This article was about 7x more than it needed to be and didn't explain many things clearly enough. Some of Us take interest in this kinda th…
288 solar panels went onto a Swiss roof and not one of them has ever been replaced, while the inverter underneath has been swapped five times, and 48 of the originals are still feeding the grid today
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@dside ROOKIE · 1 day
I bet they have ground leeched so many hazards that the water is contaminated for miles
An American startup wants to lower a 15-megawatt reactor a mile down a hole outside a Kansas town of 9,600 people, with the water above it doing the job of a containment dome, and the route it is on lets the government skip the environmental impact statement
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williamsabey ROOKIE · 2 days
15 megawatts is really small for a reactor. Most reactors at power plants are a hundred times that or more. Hopefully if this test is succes…
@wolfy ROOKIE · 2 days
This is how we destroy the country. The next time there is an earthquake, and the nuclear material leaks out into the ground water and they …
A 132-pound American drone two people can lift off a tailgate went into the North Sea instead of a crewed survey ship and picked out everything down to a one-meter cube on the bottom, and its own maker says do not use it below 20 meters of seabed
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@bizdafookes ROOKIE · 2 days
How does it burrow down below the sea bed?
Australia is pulling 12,900 tonnes of concrete and steel out of the River Derwent with a 280-tonne crawler crane and barges underneath to catch what falls, and the ship it is doing it for still sails 419 miles to refuel
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@thedrilldoctor ROOKIE · 2 days
Pretty cool! All that to go on a chilly little adventure.
A crane set a 2.2-million-pound module five storeys tall into a Georgia reactor in a single lift, and America is now planning as many as 91 more of those reactors, held up not by cranes or concrete but by the few people qualified to sign the paperwork
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@sbfarmer8 ROOKIE · 3 days
murica! F yea!
@deantyner ROOKIE · 3 days
I was at Vogtle during the construction it was the paperwork, and the long delays waiting on engineering answers, not the workers that cause…
America is building seabed batteries that charge drone submarines and keep throwing off heat for 28.8 years without a cable or a support ship, fuelled by a generator the Energy Department has had in a store at Oak Ridge
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@montyjoemartinj ROOKIE · 3 days
Sounds like a great idea and a good way to use this type of material instead of storing it as hazardous waste forever.
williamsabey ROOKIE · 3 days
Until one starts leaking, releasing radioactive Strontium into the ocean... You do realise that radioactive waste doesn't last "forever", ri…
@josephburke420k ROOKIE · 3 days
sounds like a great way to lower population, keep throwing radioactive material into the water to slowly poison the Earth's water supply -- …
A 46-foot drone boat sat 16 miles off Plymouth for more than 100 hours with nobody touching it, picked up a low-power distress beacon 13.7 miles away and pinned it to within 65 feet, and it did all of it with the hydrogen taken out and a diesel put inComment on the article →
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@ryandonovan ROOKIE · 4 days
Hydrogen is NEVER the answer if the use case needs to carry the fuel supply. It's physics. you can't make even liquid hydrogen work because …
Ford and Slate are both selling a cheap, ugly electric pickup, and the choice comes down to whether you’d rather pay $3,545 more for the one nobody has been allowed to photograph or take the one that shows up without paint
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@matthewcohen ROOKIE · 5 days
What percentage of truck owners ever tow something? I've been a truck owner ever since I bought my 1st vehicle, a 96 Ford ranger in 1999 an…
@kenjames ROOKIE · 2 days
I don't care if it's painted or has crank windows if I can carry a couple of sheets of building material. Im good to go and I don't need t…
An American drone crosses 2,700 miles inside five shipping containers, gets bolted together on a dock in two days, swims out by pumping seawater through itself instead of turning a propeller, then anchors to the ocean floor and sleeps there until someone wakes it
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@robinwiddringto ROOKIE · 5 days
I spent 22 years of my merchant marine career as an officer on 3 navy auxiliary AGOR oceanographic research ships. Drones were often used i…
@boli ROOKIE · 4 days
Please, by all means build war machines with large sum of money against imaginary enemy while Americans drive on top of potholes.
A 3,000-pound Chinese electric sports car makes 430 horsepower from a 60-kWh battery, hits 60 in about three seconds and sells at home for $34,000, and it is going to Britain rather than America
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@justie ROOKIE · 5 days
Who's Anthony Chapman? COLIN Chapman started Lotus.
simonrockman DRIVER · 9 hours
The reason a Lotus is badge reads ACBC is that his name was Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman, although I took did a double take on this.
simonrockman DRIVER · 9 hours
They have announced a UK price of 50,000 pounds. So $67k. I find this disappointing. I was hoping Xiaomi involvement would help keep the pri…
Tesla owns several tons of die-cast machinery built to stamp Cybertruck parts and spent three weeks locked out of the Texas plant holding it, and a judge has now let the company walk in and take it back, with about 100 trucks leaving Giga Texas the next day
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@randywhelchel ROOKIE · 5 days
I am not even sure how to respond to the writer who it seems to just hate the CT. Was this suppose to be "News"? It seemed more the working…
Lucid just showed the first real images of the Cosmos, a $50,000 electric SUV that pulls about 300 miles from a 69 kWh pack, and the pictures arrived inside the same update that quietly moved it a full year further away
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@ferniez ROOKIE · 6 days
Unfortunately, the market for $50k cars is still limited. A better headline would have been that they would finally produce an affordable Am…
A 5,000-ton crane just put the first 1,290-ton steel tube into the seabed off Germany, and it is the same machine that came down across its own deck in Rostock at half that rating, in the port now rolling the tubes it installs
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@ratwest ROOKIE · 6 days
I don't think the hook that failed was "...at the end of the rope." ! I think they use cables.
A New York building put a hundred kilowatts of solar panels upright on a green roof and gets about 120,000 kilowatt-hours a year out of them, against 116,000 from a tilted array on the same roof, because the point was never the total and always the shape
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@mwebcmcweb ROOKIE · 6 days
Re the shadow, looks like photo was taken around noon. If the panels face east-west they would catch rising and setting sun and being bifac…
A 380-ton German machine 335 feet long threads a steel chain under a live railway, drags the stone out from beneath the crossties like a chainsaw laid flat, washes it and drops it back in behind itself, and never takes the rails apart
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michaelcruise ROOKIE · 7 days
I've seen Passer machines do amazing work, many years ago in the late 1970s on Burlington Northern main line across Southern Iowa, where I w…
A five-ton steel wheel packed with about 7,000 tungsten bricks has been spinning inside a sealed vacuum under Sweden for nearly three years, turning at two thirds the speed of a vinyl record behind 13 feet of steel shielding, and not one proton has ever hit it
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@laurashermanrud ROOKIE · 7 days
What are the BIFROST, LOKI, and ODIN mentioned in the article?
While one American company runs half a million driverless rides a week using cameras, lidar and radar together, the other has logged 14 crashes in about 800,000 miles of robotaxi service with a paid human sitting in the front seat
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stubarrett ROOKIE · 7 days
You present traffic accident numbers for Tesla but not Waymo? This is nothing more than journalistic arm waving by someone who never took …
@johnyoung ROOKIE · 7 days
Hit piece. They include an accident where the Tesla was not moving?!?! Waymo news stories that they are clogging streets are countless.
@redrider ROOKIE · 6 days
Last time I checked there were more than 2 "American companies" but oh well. This is the quality I've come to expect from online news.
China just lit a full-size reactor that beat the small modular one next door to first criticality, on the same island, a fence between them — and the small one, 216 days late, costs two and a half times more per megawatt to build
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@familyman ROOKIE · 1 week
Its a experimental product! Shut up! No comparison
A Bavarian farmer put solar panels on top of the poles already holding up his hops, 23 feet over the field, and the first version made excellent electricity and fewer cones, because the plants reached the glass and went bushy instead of setting the part brewers pay for
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@bobriley ROOKIE · 1 week
Any solar engineer/installer would have told him 20 degrees is way too flat for the site and shading would be a problem, but might beat hea…
@timricherson ROOKIE · 1 week
Plant protection product seems it could be a lot of different things.
@paulrodgers ROOKIE · 7 days
That last sentence seals the deal for me.
By the time payback arrives, it will belong to the next generation.
That is the kind of point-of…
A robot started at the bottom of a 182-ton reactor plug 36 feet tall, the end that had sat closest to the core, and worked upward until the readings dropped far enough for people to come in with a thermal lance
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mikeconley DRIVER · 1 week
The Natrium is a clever design -- it ramps with storage, not with the reactor. Like a hybrid car, the reactor runs at a steady, stress-free …
An American aluminum smelter outside Charleston runs carbon-lined steel boxes at 1,780 degrees that never get switched off, because a few hours without current freezes the bath into rock, and feeding them draws 397 megawatts flat, every hour of every day
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billfortune ROOKIE · 1 week
THE DEATH OF A NATION: we have the technology to produce more power (electricity) than we need. The Liquid Salt, Sodium, Lead, Gas cooled …
Two 1,100-ton machines rated for 59 feet a day averaged about half that under Vancouver, took 16 and 18 months against a plan of 12, and the trains they made room for are now running test laps with ballast standing in for passengers
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@geordiebirch ROOKIE · 1 week
Needs to be edited down.
ronsonntag ROOKIE · 1 week
Nailed it!
@worldwideweiner ROOKIE · 5 days
A TBM rated to 18m per day and then doing 9m per is to be put in context: most cars are “rated” to 240km and are hardly ever driven to half …
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 · 1 week
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 · 1 week
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 week
There's a job AI can't do.
@joecallahan ROOKIE · 1 week
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 · 1 week
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 · 1 week
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 · 1 week
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 · 1 week
Let ‘s not get too clever on this. Remember nuclear power?
@agirobotics ROOKIE · 1 week
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 · 1 week
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 weeks
This is not efficient in the least. Research was done on this long ago.
@michaelward ROOKIE · 1 week
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 · 2 weeks
So many nations need this active border sentry. Here in Australia, there are drug smugglers, illegal immigrants, etc.
We need base station…
@leighdawkins ROOKIE · 2 weeks
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 millionComment on the article →
billfortune ROOKIE · 2 weeks
"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 · 2 weeks
Hot enough to make steam? Sounds like it's ripe to become a geothermal energy plant?
@warrenwilczewsk ROOKIE · 7 days
Why are the units in this article so messed up? One paragraph has feet and degrees F, then another right after has meters and degrees C and …
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 · 2 weeks
Green boondoggle. Mendacity abounds.
@montitate ROOKIE · 2 weeks
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 · 2 weeks
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 · 2 weeks
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 · 2 weeks
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 · 2 weeks
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 · 2 weeks
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 · 2 weeks
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 · 1 week
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 · 2 weeks
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 · 2 weeks
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 · 2 weeks
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 · 2 weeks
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 · 2 weeks
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 · 2 weeks
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 · 2 weeks
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 · 2 weeks
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 areComment on the article →
simonrockman DRIVER · 2 weeks
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 · 2 weeks
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 · 2 weeks
Is Canada not involved?
@bvonm ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Qrka is a Croatian drone firm.. so you're missing something