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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
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J T ROOKIE · 1 week
Sounds like Blasting time. Is it a environmental issue as far as dangerous to whatever.
@roysmith ROOKIE · 1 week
The cord is not the problem. To what is it attached? Dynamite may be dried out, but TNT, cratering charges, ammonium nitrate may still be …
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
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@chrisbarott ROOKIE · 1 week
Why don't they build the data centers right over these geothermal wells for easy electricity.
deviantdevil DRIVER · 1 week
I'm still trying to figure out why multi billion dollar companies are getting tax breaks on these data centers. They only employ people for …
deviantdevil DRIVER · 1 week
This is news I enjoy seeing! True green endless energy in geothermal. Not stupid wind or solor.
Between geothermal, hydro, and nuclear powe…
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
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ernestschwink DRIVER · 1 week
The Concept is a Proven One and not only on paper, if everything pans out it shall be a boon for residents, firefighters, and the investors.…
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
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@jeffreycutler ROOKIE · 1 week
Answer -- nuclear waste is not that dangerous-- its VALUABLE so they say its super dangerous to keep people away.
Old uranium mines had …
A 12-foot bundle of 216 fuel rods that leaned 30 degrees for seven weeks inside the first American reactor being brought back from retirement was lifted out by a tool built in two weeks and shut inside a 49,000-pound canister, and fuel loading can finally start again
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@vincesnyder ROOKIE · 2 weeks
why was there heat, 571 F, and radiation, if its new fuel (not spent) ?
Review: Is the 2026 Volkswagen Golf GTI Sporty and Practical Enough to Break America?
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@ericwhite ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Mmm, unless VW changed the car for the Mk8.5, there's a defrost button on the panel to the left of the instrument cluster.
And I can confir…
A 31-pound nuclear density gauge loaded with cesium and americium, stolen from an Indiana jobsite by thieves who cut the locks on 10 storage containers, turned up on eBay four years later, and two states and the FBI had it back with its owner in six days
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@shawnpatrick ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Brand new, the Troxler or Humboldt nuke gauges run around $35k. Working for a State DOT, I'm responsible for purchasing these devices for ou…
@courtneykarl ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Not even one hint as to how much these things cost. That would have been a nice piece of information, seeing as how it seems fairly valuable…
@gregsellberg ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Fermi National Lab in Batavia Il. had radioactive copper beam targets out at the " Rail Head" in a monitored fenced area. Thieves cut the ch…
A flooded nickel and copper mine outside Sudbury sat under water for 25 years with every building on top torn down, and a small Ontario company just approved digging a new ramp into it, pumping it dry and putting the old shaft back to work to haul out 2,400 tons of rock a day for 12 yearsComment on the article →
ernestschwink DRIVER · 2 weeks
I want to see the November filing ASAP, it may give better ideas of what to expect.
24,264 solar panels on trackers over an organic oat field near Germany’s Danish border kept the soil under them so wet that sowing ran four weeks behind the field’s open ends, and a tractor driver looking back over his shoulder drove into a row of modules and broke several
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@anthonywokral ROOKIE · 2 weeks
This looks like a master class in how not to set up solar on a working farm
Not spacing the panels to fit the existing equipment is a hu…
A 1,010-megawatt Swiss reactor dropped its control rods on its own at 6:40 in the morning when the voltage holding them up sagged during a test, and was back on the grid by 5:50 that evening, seven months after a 10-month shutdown
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@jimash ROOKIE · 3 weeks
10 month shutdown does cause temperature drops which electrical equipment Energized for years do not like, if they move brake on startup you…
A 1,152-megawatt reactor on the Mississippi shut itself down at 10:45 at night, hours before operators planned to shut it down by hand for refueling, when a turbine test tripped it, one electrical bus failed to switch over and an emergency diesel started on its own
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@cpietro ROOKIE · 3 weeks
Wait till they have to fill up the backup diesel tanks! They will need to raise rates.
@lennymorgan ROOKIE · 3 weeks
I think the way it's going to work before they can refuel. They're going to have to correct the situation. Bring it back up to power so to s…
@odysseusdewande ROOKIE · 3 weeks
For a 'car guy' your article on the Waterford event seemed spot-on. Didn't see anything that was inaccurate so good work with the reporting.
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
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@johnhoshaw ROOKIE · 4 weeks
What would running new raw sewage pipes cost and what does the pumping out the stored sewage cost? In the end, wouldn't that approach be saf…
@francisy ROOKIE · 4 weeks
Herrenknecht Builds tunnel boring machines in China……please inform Americans
@kennethblair ROOKIE · 4 weeks
Building ground water concrete detention basins in area neighborhoods with extreme flooding potential seams to be the best and cheapest opti…
A 726-foot dam on the Colorado River runs 17 turbines, and 12 of them take severe cavitation damage once Lake Mead drops below 1,035 feet, a line the lake now sits 2.4 feet above and the new federal forecast crosses in November, cutting the plant from 1,191 megawatts to 317 by April
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@gilg ROOKIE · 4 weeks
Cavitation erosion has been a problem with a host of other applications that use machinery that adds or extracts energy from water. Naval sh…
@dennis ROOKIE · 4 weeks
forget it Jake, this is Chinatown.
@shannonsheets ROOKIE · 4 weeks
If they rerouted some of the washes to run where the water needs to go instead of flooding and washing out towns and roads then there wouldn…
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 reactorComment on the article →
deviantdevil DRIVER · 4 weeks
I love everything about this! We need more nuclear power in the world.
A 5.8-foot lithium wall caved in at nearly 600 mph around a plasma inside a Canadian fusion machine and squeezed its electrons past 22 million degrees in about 3 milliseconds, and the liner gets wrecked on every shot and pulled out for a new one
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@tombennett ROOKIE · 4 weeks
Speaking from a profound state of ignorance on the topic, but doesn't this design seem more like a bomb than a power plant?
The Tesla Roadster Reveal Wasn’t a Live Demo, It Was More Smoke and Mirrors. Is It Actually a Flying, Spinning Supercar That Hits 60 MPH In Under 1 Second?
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@clintl ROOKIE · 4 weeks
Do you have any proof at all that it wasn't a live demo besides, "trust me, bro"? Do you think SpaceX is all smoke and mirrors? Do you think…
@bradjones ROOKIE · 4 weeks
"Two random white guys are on stage."
Could you imagine if the article stated that "Two random black guys were on stage"
Enough is en…
@blackwaters ROOKIE · 4 weeks
"two random WHITE GUYS"? You're so hip, and yet WHITE!
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
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@davebrower ROOKIE · 4 weeks
That sure makes me wonder about the old Hudson River tunnels, possibly after the gateway tunnels are done.
Bruce Herden ROOKIE · 4 weeks
You should do a story on the widening of the York River Bridge, Yorktown VA.
Its a dual swing span draw bridge upgraded from two to four …
Toyota and Subaru Sell Four Pairs of Nearly Identical Cars, and Americans Keep Picking the Toyota. We Compared All Four, and the Cheaper Twin Won Every Single Time
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@jamesg ROOKIE · 4 weeks
Four pairs = 8
The Fiat Multipla’s Successor Is Somehow Even Uglier Than the Original
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simonrockman DRIVER · 4 weeks
When you want to sell something, polarizing is A Good Thing. If some people love it and some hate it then some people will buy it. If everyo…
A 5-megawatt reactor sealed in a 1,000-ton steel vault on a Texas university campus got federal sign-off on its final safety analysis, one review away from permission to go critical, with the full-size core of a 20-megawatt reactor fueled for a quarter of the power
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@sheldonjackson ROOKIE · 4 weeks
Well considering the damn things like 5 miles from my home. They should have voted for the damn thing to be located this close to a populat…
Canada Opened Its Border to 49,000 Cheap EVs at a 6.1% Tariff. Now Geely Is Coming Next Year, and Americans Can’t Buy a Single One
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@grtbluyonder ROOKIE · 1 month
Americans deserve Trump and his dictatorship. Nothing has been done to sentence him for his 34 fraud convictions or any of his many other il…
Ford finally showed off its $30,000 electric pickup after months of dribbling out tiny details, and the big reveal is that it looks like a plain, boxy truck, which is exactly what Americans have been asking forComment on the article →
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jdjones DRIVER · 1 month
Can I buy it with that wrap? Love how it looks.
No Electric Windows, Heated Seats, or Infotainment System. Everything Missing From Slate’s Upcoming EV Truck
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@anonanon ROOKIE · 1 month
And what sort of idiot would buy a truck with a range of 350km OR LESS at any price?
Until any EV gets at least 800km range (In a Canadian …
@shaneg ROOKIE · 1 month
Lets be clear, there is nothing missing from the slate despite what the title says. The whole point is to not have unnecessary things. I don…
danya ROOKIE · 1 month
Uh, people who dont need to drive 350km? Families that already have an ICE vehicle for other uses? Ones individual qualifications don't fit …
A 12-foot bundle of 216 fuel rods has held up the first American reactor ever brought back from retirement for five weeks by leaning over in its core, a one-off tool is being built from scratch just to lift it back out, and the restart due early next year no longer has a date
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davidhoskins ROOKIE · 1 month
It sounds to me like the thing fell/tipped over and the assembly bent making it impossible to pick back up with the original equipment as we…
@joenorcom ROOKIE · 1 month
BWR fuel sits atop stub plates aligned on the bottom of reactor vessel. Each stub plate supports and aligns 4 fuel bundles.
I was working a…
@jameslittle ROOKIE · 1 month
A sophomoric article. A tipped assembly isn’t a major event. The tooling is necessary to lift up a very heavy assembly. No, it wasn’t the re…
A 595-foot ship that sailed 450,000 nautical miles on 163 pounds of uranium is running out of time to find a home, the plan to move her to a museum berth just fell apart, and the first nuclear-powered merchant ship ever built could end up in a scrapyard
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@miltheger ROOKIE · 1 month
I went aboard her when very young, with my Dad, when she was at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. Much later my youngest son b…
@robertadams ROOKIE · 1 month
A correction, the neutron shield tank, steam generators and pressurizer shell remain in place and have been decontaminated. As far as we kno…
A 180-foot drone ship spent eight days at sea clearing more than 140 Navy test scenarios without a failure, sailing 414 miles on a single push of a button with every tanker and fishing boat dodged on its own — and the Navy is now buying 30 drone ships from three builders
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carmelopappalar ROOKIE · 1 month
Birdon failed because they were using other contractors shipyards and not their own. Possibly Aussie shipyards as well.
@deepseadweller ROOKIE · 1 month
Needs a self destruct button
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simonrockman DRIVER · 1 month
The jaGuar Type 01 launch is on Oct 6th. Some speculated that the Roadster 2 launch was timed to steal Jaguar's (sorry can't do it twice) th…
Semi-transparent solar panels set into the wooden crates that EV fast chargers ship in grew more lettuce than the open plot beside them in all four colors of glass, because the panels cut soil temperatures by up to 18 degrees on days the air hit 104 — and plain gray won
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@fragileborisfra ROOKIE · 1 month
Funny looking lettuce, looks like grapes to me
While one Three Mile Island reactor just cleared its final review to restart, the reactor that melted down next door still holds up to 2,480 pounds of fuel debris fused to its pipes and tanks — and when it finally comes out, it moves a few hundred yards to a pad and waits
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@direwolf ROOKIE · 1 month
The accident was a partial meltdown. I know I'm being picky about it, but there is a big difference between a meltdown and a partial meltdow…
@tomfunk ROOKIE · 1 month
I grew up in Harrisburg and was 14 when that happened. We first heard about it on the radio .. when we were literally on our way back from …
Stellantis’ Recent Patent Looks Like One of the Wildest Chinese EV Ideas
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@tlum ROOKIE · 1 month
So where does the battery pack go if you plow into something (like a fallen tree)? I can only imagine a couple of scenarios where a battery …
A battery of ceramic bricks runs the current straight through the brick itself, no heating wire to burn out, and hands back heat at up to 3,275 degrees — more than the 2,642 a cement kiln needs — and one of the biggest cement makers on Earth just signed up for the first two
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parthochakrabar ROOKIE · 1 month
Well Researched & Written,👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@francisrio ROOKIE · 1 month
Ok but this thing is about as hot as the surface of the sun, and they better look out because the damn whole Contraption might blow up!
@charlesboegli ROOKIE · 1 month
Got to be kidding me. Using electricity to make Portland cement?
A 1-megawatt battery that stores power as graphite glowing at up to 4,352 degrees has started going up in a Massachusetts town, is getting switched on one subsystem at a time, and the worst failure it can have is a stack of very hot bricks slowly going cold
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homer10 DRIVER · 1 month
That glow is heat (energy) leaking out. Surround the heat storage media with mirrors that reflect inferred, and can stand the temperatures. …
andyhill ROOKIE · 1 month
I assume there has to be some sort of containment vessel involved. Hot graphite is damned reactive when exposed to air, as the fire at Cher…
johnsprot ROOKIE · 1 month
What is the round trip efficiency?
A 1,123-foot aircraft carrier with eight nuclear reactors will be towed to Alabama and taken apart around them, because the reactor block the Navy cuts whole out of a submarine is too big to lift out of a carrier — and nobody has ever taken a nuclear carrier apart before
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@bsbryans ROOKIE · 1 month
Submarine nuclear reactors go to a desert in idaho not Washington.
A 261,000-ton stockpile of arsenic dust kept frozen in chambers up to 250 feet down at the edge of Yellowknife has given researchers a sample they turned into arsenic metal more than 99 percent pure, out of waste that would fill seven 10-story buildings
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@gregphilpott ROOKIE · 1 month
Very interesting. I would love to learn more. We are presently work on Giant Mine Water treatment plant.
16,000 solar panels blanket a 2-mile concrete tunnel over a Belgian high-speed rail line, held down by ballast tiles because nobody wanted to drill a single hole above live overhead power lines, and trains have run on the roof’s electricity for 15 years
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@larrymoffett ROOKIE · 1 month
It might be time to replace those nominal 250w panels (which have lost some power over 15 years of operation) with new 450-500w panels to do…
ajayajay ROOKIE · 1 month
Why this Madness to use all kinds of "exotic" places like these Railway Lines, Rooftops, Canals, Reservoirs, "High Seas" etc... when there …
@jerh71 ROOKIE · 1 month
Your point is ridiculous. There is absolutely NO REASON to cut down forest to install solar farms, no reason to use farm land for solar farm…
A 726-foot dam on the Colorado River runs 17 turbines, and 12 of them take severe cavitation damage once Lake Mead drops below 1,035 feet, a line the lake now sits about 3 feet above and the government’s own forecast crosses before the end of November
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@geoffreyeble ROOKIE · 2 months
Lake Mead isn't the nation's largest reservoir of water at 1/4 capacity, far from it. At full capacity it is. There are several larger reser…
@leland ROOKIE · 2 months
Meanwhile we just letting tech giants build water guzzling data centers as if those 200 projected jobs will offset all of the problems they …
@johnbrown ROOKIE · 1 month
this is so painfully obviously ai and the weird informal tone is so annoying and unreadable
A 24-foot tunnel borer chewed 2.7 miles under Lake Mead against water pressure of up to 218 psi, with a car tire carrying 33, to plant a drinking straw near the lake bottom, and the lake just hit its lowest level since Hoover Dam first filled it
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@danielburns ROOKIE · 2 months
Great article describing awesome engineering & construction feat !
Anthony Bryant ROOKIE · 2 months
Well considering your data is incorrect, I worked on the project for 3 years! 3.7 miles and 26 foot diameter, 650 down a shaft, and no they …
@jt ROOKIE · 2 months
I have a water solution for the entire southwest. I've tried to reach Elon Musk's Boring Company and Mark Cuban, to no avail.
A reactor at Canada’s largest nuclear plant came off the grid by evening and a second one dialed back to 87 percent power, both pulled by hand as millions of gizzard shad packed the intake screens, and the count hit up to 4.95 million fish against a site record of 800,000
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@jamesseymour ROOKIE · 2 months
Canada needs to repent for imprisoning Christian pastors for preaching from the Bible and making medically assisted death a leading cause of…
@ernestschwink DRIVER · 3 weeks
Welcome to Bruce Energy Drive Through, may I take your order today? Yes, we have fried and baked shad each in our delicious signature breadi…
A 1,000-volt electric rock cutter spent nearly ten months chipping a tunnel through a Canadian mine that would normally be blasted open, peaked past 18 feet of new tunnel in a single day, and came out of the trial with a redesigned cutting head and 25 percent less downtime
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@elbertswartzend ROOKIE · 2 months
You got what you did right. Your short, sweet, to the point style is refreshing. We love facts and figures even more when you tell us what…
An 85-foot nuclear reactor vessel filled with 654 cubic yards of concrete rode a self-propelled platform 2,000 feet down the road to a hall built to hold it alone, and the plan now is to wait 30 to 60 years, because the steel gets safer to cut every decade it sits
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@bobbyallen ROOKIE · 2 months
Im curious how much waste will accumulate if humans use all existing materials to create every ounce ofbelectricity from that material? Will…
@bobbyallen ROOKIE · 2 months
Furthermore, is it worth it in the end to endanger ourselves for electricity production as compared to other forms of electricity production…
@chrishinton ROOKIE · 2 months
Why does it look like Thomas the Tank Engine?
An 8-foot clear column filled with 25% salt water let researchers watch how a nuclear battery would move its liquid fuel with no pump, heated by electric current pushed straight through the water, and the reactor it stood in for is designed to put out 20 megawatts of heat
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williamsabey DRIVER · 2 months
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think that ohmic heating *or* actual fission heating should be uniform; fission depends on geometry…
@joshmount ROOKIE · 2 months
Wouldn't the salt need to be molten before you fired the reactor? How would you pre heat the salt? How would you start the reaction in a clo…
@tedthomas ROOKIE · 2 months
Doesn't our sun work the same way? Of course, it is fusion rather than fission but, as recent astronomy has discovered, there are whirlpool…
A wind turbine built to stand 1,198 feet tall in eastern Germany can’t even get its three blades bolted on in strong wind, and once they’re on, hydraulic jacks still have to push its 827-ton top up through the lattice tower at 30 feet an hour to a hub height of 984 feet
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@jakeleslie ROOKIE · 2 months
Wind turbines require more energy to build, then they can produce over the expected life time. Add in gear oil, maintenance and de icing, th…
@virginiajames ROOKIE · 2 months
This is getting ridiculous. At what point will you break even on cost versus power produced? Where will you plant oxygen producing trees to …
@duncanwallbank ROOKIE · 2 months
All those statistics in feet. I'd need a voodoo witch-doctor and a grave digger to find someone who understands that.
A 427-foot ship built to haul carbon dioxide as a liquid at 31 below zero docks twice a week at Europe’s largest fertilizer plant, loads almost 2 million gallons from its seven tanks, and sails it to Norway to be pumped 8,530 feet under the North Sea
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@jacobwolf ROOKIE · 2 months
Informative and an eye opener. A very interesting read indeed. Forcing the capture of carbon is truly a vital necessity.
You Can’t Get These Chinese EVs in the U.S., But Here are the EV Equivalents You Can Get Instead
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@ronshinkman ROOKIE · 2 months
Since this was written by AI, it is glaringly obvious that this article has significant errors. Chevy Bolt pricing does not start at around …
A drilling rig that takes up one parking space cut seven geothermal boreholes outside a Boston office with water sprayed at 10,000 psi instead of a metal bit, and its drill pipe never came back out, because the pipe itself becomes the heat exchanger
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@chris ROOKIE · 2 months
Had anyone thought about the ramifications of transferring above ground heat below ground? Would that not end up constantly heating below gr…
@jessekavanagh ROOKIE · 2 months
Congratulations you nailed it
@johnsachetti ROOKIE · 2 months
In the winter, heat is brought back above ground. Doesn't that cancel out the Summer heat going below?
3,240 solar panels stand over a Belgian pasture where 50 ewes graze between the rows, and 40 to 50% of the power they make goes next door, into the limestone quarry that owns the grass and spends its electricity turning big rocks into smaller ones
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@wajiulhassan ROOKIE · 2 months
Yhh it was super good
@rogerburrows ROOKIE · 2 months
So the shelter part in the winter seems like a newer thought on the mashup of farming and power production. If the world had paid attention …