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McLaren brought the stick back. Porsche confirmed one. Spyker came back from the dead with a gated shifter. Lamborghini parked a 1,065-horsepower hybrid V12 in the middle of The Quail with a dual-clutch and said a manual is not on the list
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@joshj ROOKIE · 3 days
People were also bashing Lamborghini for just releasing the same crap.
While 82,000 solar panels now shade 11,200 cars at Disneyland Paris, the 36 gigawatt-hours those canopies make each year do not run Space Mountain — the Swiss builder sold the entire output, and the park never self-consumes a kilowatt-hour
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Mike Smith ROOKIE · 5 days
The panels are installed incorrectly. The panels are inclined at the wrong angle (should be about 50 degrees) and are too close together so …
An Australian dairy farmer just unfolded 105 kilowatts of solar out of shipping containers on rails, like an accordion, with a 241-kilowatt-hour battery sitting beside 240 cows that milk twice a day in the dark — and the whole farm can fold the array up and drive it somewhere else
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@andrewburgess ROOKIE · 5 days
They will be loosing 90% of the power with the bottom of the panels shaded
A four-story American building in Kern County is a 100-megawatt-hour stack of toaster-wire and blast-furnace brick that has been making high-pressure steam every night for a year on sunshine alone, heating past 1,832°F, and the customer that owns it pumps crude oil
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@brianweight ROOKIE · 6 days
"Greenest steam in the San Joaquin Valley"? Sure. Where is the water for the steam coming from. To pump crude oil from the ground. In a stat…
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@raybecker ROOKIE · 6 days
Just make electricity with the steam and you'd save even more carbon monoxide.
@justinwilson ROOKIE · 3 days
this is fracking and they dont use the term in the article.
A 155-ton reactor vessel near Bologna runs on molten lead with electric heaters standing in for uranium, and the French firm that built it just told US regulators it wants to make plutonium fuel in America, where the last plant that tried is a half-built shell
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@joshuakirkland ROOKIE · 7 days
Who builds a reactor vessel with a round bottom leading to favorable geometry for criticality in the event of a meltdown?? 🤨
Japan switched one reactor back on at the biggest nuclear station ever built after fourteen years dark, and three weeks later the utility that owns it started switching off solar farms for the first time, up to 3,290 megawatts on a single afternoon
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hanswolfgangsch DRIVER · 1 week
Start to set up water purification and energy backup systems with the excess power. Solar systems age, so do reactors. Make some methane, …
@damiendye ROOKIE · 7 days
sould e hydrogen rather than methane, as that burns clean, or goes though a fuel cell nicely.
methane should be avoided at all cost sinc…
Every ship through the Panama Canal sends about 50 million gallons of fresh water out to sea, the lake meant to replace that loss costs $1.6 billion and will not hold a drop before 2031, and the canal has already cut how deep ships can sit five times this year
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@derekbayslittle ROOKIE · 1 week
To long, way to long winded writing
The hydrogen land speed record stood at 185.5 mph until a British digger manufacturer took a car onto the Bonneville salt and clocked 406.320 over a flying mile, and the FIA is still ratifying it
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@andygoddard ROOKIE · 1 week
Why can't vehicles be fitted with a water tank and small hydrogen splitter, converting 'on demand'? Rather than storing and distributing lar…
A Swiss tomato grower hung 1,736 solar modules inside his greenhouse directly over the rows, and they take only the infrared the plants never use, so the crop came out 1 percent up and the pickers started working under them because it was cooler
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@wadeworkman ROOKIE · 1 week
Wouldn't you WANT the extra heat from infrared in tht winter time?
@andyhill ROOKIE · 1 week
I'm more than a little confused. Given the whole point of a greenhouse is to be warmer than outside conditions, this seems to be directly f…
Arizona bolted 2,556 solar panels over half a mile of irrigation canal on steel trusses that never touch the water, the first in the country to do it, and it costs about twice what putting the same panels on the ground would
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williamsabey DRIVER · 1 week
A megawatt sounds like a lot, but to put it in perspective, a typical nuclear reactor produces three or four *thousand* megawatts, and can r…
@m209 ROOKIE · 1 week
Wildlife loses access to water?
@stuartshurlock ROOKIE · 1 week
But nuclear takes forever to build, and currently in Europe, solar is propping up power systems where nuclear has had to close down due to l…
A British company laid three fiberglass pipes 200 feet long up a Devon hillside, filled them with 343,000 gallons of a fluid dense enough to float concrete and dropped it back through a turbine it had to build from scratch, because water turbines cannot handle it
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@nicolae ROOKIE · 1 week
what are you NOT saying..how much energy do you consume to create the emulsion? how much does it cost? and when does the pool fill with emul…
@robertminichino ROOKIE · 1 week
Could they not make it work 24 hours a day with more than one system that picks up where the other one fades out?
@timothyfknight ROOKIE · 1 week
Interesting. This has potential in areas that don't have sufficient power.
A ground squirrel that weighs less than a burrito and sleeps eight months a year keeps every truck at an Oregon plant powering 100,000 homes down to 20 mph, fences off 785 feet around each colony, and the state tells the operator to armor the cables because it chews
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@gregorygilligan ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Why not just eliminate them?There must be a way to control them
@gregorygilligan ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Just eliminate them
@mkj ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Just because some may not be impressed with a ground squirrel or a shrub steppe habitat doesn't mean they're not as worthy as something a hu…
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 · 2 weeks
I think they should prob cut the check already. 17 mil still sounds like a deal.
@lisavenusthesun ROOKIE · 2 weeks
17 mil sounds like they got a hellova deal.
@cowboymatt ROOKIE · 2 weeks
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 · 2 weeks
I bet they have ground leeched so many hazards that the water is contaminated for miles
@backcountry164 ROOKIE · 2 weeks
China supplies 80% of solar components worldwide. I'm sure they're only using the best materials. I'm sure they want them to last as long as…
@stephenoneill ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Just like Cancer Alley and everywhere else in the world that processes or extracts oil, gas and coal lol
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 weeks
How does it burrow down below the sea bed?
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 · 2 weeks
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 weeks
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…
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 · 2 weeks
Who's Anthony Chapman? COLIN Chapman started Lotus.
simonrockman DRIVER · 2 weeks
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 · 2 weeks
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 · 2 weeks
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 · 2 weeks
Unfortunately, the market for $50k cars is still limited. A better headline would have been that they would finally produce an affordable Am…
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 · 2 weeks
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 · 3 weeks
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 · 3 weeks
What are the BIFROST, LOKI, and ODIN mentioned in the article?
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 · 3 weeks
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 · 3 weeks
Plant protection product seems it could be a lot of different things.
@paulrodgers ROOKIE · 3 weeks
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…
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 · 3 weeks
THE DEATH OF A NATION: we have the technology to produce more power (electricity) than we need. The Liquid Salt, Sodium, Lead, Gas cooled …
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 · 3 weeks
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…
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 · 3 weeks
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 · 3 weeks
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
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 · 3 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…
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 weeks
Green boondoggle. Mendacity abounds.
@montitate ROOKIE · 3 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 · 3 weeks
Fort Bragg is an Army base in Fayetteville North Carolina!!!
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 · 3 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 · 3 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…
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 · 4 weeks
If the world is serious about using sea water to produce electricity, we need investors, governments, engineers, inventors to get together …
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 · 4 weeks
Don't extinguish fires cause no water
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 · 4 weeks
Did not know that Ed Sheeran has a side hustle
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 · 1 month
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 · 1 month
Has anyone studied the effect of taking all that energy out of the tidal flows? How will it impact the ecology of the are?
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 · 1 month
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…
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 · 1 month
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 · 1 month
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 · 1 month
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…
While its rivals chase reactors cooled by liquid sodium and molten salt, an Austin company is stamping out 30 copies of the boring 1950s pressurized-water reactor instead — betting a Texas grid facing 43 gigawatts of new data-center demand wants unclever, not clever
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mikeconley DRIVER · 1 month
Boring like a Checker Cab - It'll work for decades on end. Just don't overheat the thing, and you'll be fine.
@patrickjohnson ROOKIE · 1 month
So carries all the same problems as nuclear. Safety, waste and decommissioning. Creating vast a problem for fire generations for immediate…
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@hanswolfgangsch DRIVER · 1 month
Battery overtemp should blow the door hinges.
China just bolted 50 megawatts of solar panels over an alpine meadow at 11,000 feet on the Tibetan Plateau, and the dark silicon that should have baked the ground like a parking lot froze it for 50 extra days a year instead, seven more weeks of winter under the rows
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@minorhull ROOKIE · 1 month
Why do you say the ground should become hotter under the panels? Depends on their hight above the ground. If they are 6/8/10/12 feet above t…
Nineteen owls evicted by a Phoenix housing project were driven 50 miles and released inside a 10,000-acre solar complex, into plastic burrows wired with trail cameras — a month later every female had laid eggs, and 29 chicks fledged the first summer
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@frank ROOKIE · 1 month
Just remember that the animals were here first we are intruding on their territory so always keep that in mind.
A company dumped 650 tons of crushed green volcanic rock onto a Long Island beach to eat carbon out of the air — eleven months later, the spot where they put it measured zero percent, because the sand walked off the site while they were trying to measure it
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@richwalter ROOKIE · 1 month
How well would this idea work in a non marine setting. Say like as part of a gravel driveway ?
Two 722-foot concrete towers weighing 30,000 tons each hold the longest cable-stayed span in North America, 2,800 feet of deck with no piers touching the water — the bridge was finished in June and sat there closed for seven weeks while two governments argued over the toll money
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@jacquesppag ROOKIE · 1 month
Another fine example of bullying by a President that doesn't show respect for his country's word. The words used in the title of this articl…
A 246-foot drone warship displacing more than 1,000 tons is being designed with no bridge, no bunks and no galley, because nobody will ever sail on her — and the British shipyard that died in 2019 with one employee left says it can build two a year
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@lordquestor ROOKIE · 1 month
Autonomous ships are a great concept until your enemy hacks the system and turns the vessel on you, maybe even when in your own waters just …
A 35-pound Mylar mirror the floor area of an American house just got a license to unfold 625 kilometers up and bounce raw sunlight onto the night side of Earth, painting a moving 5-kilometer spot of moonlight on whatever target pays for it
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@johnsprot ROOKIE · 1 month
No mention of the potential disastrous effects on wild life??
I spent days driving the Subaru BRZ and it captures almost everything that makes driving great — then you touch the reversing camera, the USB ports and the infotainment, and it’s ten years out of date on every one
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@nmk ROOKIE · 1 month
No update needed. The complaints listed here are completely irrelevant to the enthusiast drivers who buy these cars.
A backup camera....? …
@jl ROOKIE · 3 weeks
If you want connectivity and entertainment, stay at home and sit on the couch. If you want to drive, then drive.
A 40-ton block of steel falling the height of a 30-story building banks eight hours of one home’s electricity, and that arithmetic never improved — the Finnish mine picked for Europe’s first gravity store now plans 530 megawatt-hours from falling water against steel’s 20Comment on the article →
irabloomgarden DRIVER · 1 month
60 years ago some idiot came up with the idea of pumping water from the Hudson River to the top of High Tor during the Overnight, then runni…
A 1,680-ton German boring machine with a cutterhead over 28 feet across is being bolted together in a New Jersey trench to chew through rock so abrasive its cutters wear out every two days, on a route where 40 people work inside the machine
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jason ROOKIE · 1 month
400m people in this country…. 2 billion in taxes to help a couple hundred thousand commute a little quicker…. Trump was right again. I gues…