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A 44-acre nuclear dump in Pennsylvania where a fuel plant buried its waste in 10 trenches has sent off its first truckloads of contaminated soil, dug a little at a time inside buildings built over the trenches, bagged into steel containers and driven 60 miles to a train bound for Utah
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@roberthenson ROOKIE · 7 hours
What should be unacceptable is shipping it to a destination within 50 miles of 2 million people.
A 6,900-ton nuclear attack submarine at Norfolk pushed a 19-pound underwater drone out of a flooded 21-inch torpedo tube so sailors could run underwater inspections from inside the boat, using a 3D-printed resin housing instead of a temporary alteration that costs 200 times as much
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@johnmillard ROOKIE · 10 hours
Way to go on being cost effective on a project, I knew the military would figure it out...... eventually
A nearly 23-foot tunnel boring machine just broke through into its first station under downtown Toronto after cutting about 4,265 feet and lining the tunnel with roughly 780 concrete rings, and its twin is due to punch through right beside it in December
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@jpmihok ROOKIE · 3 days
Why is it expressed in "miles"
It’s Finally Time to Clear the Roads (And Lakes) Of the Cybertruck as the World’s Ugliest Vehicle Gets Discontinued
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@raysmith ROOKIE · 3 days
Just say you don't like Elon, and be done with it.
There are those who create great businesses, and those who sulk with a pen....
@merryl ROOKIE · 2 days
Ah yes, and there are some people who publish well written articles about their opinions and people who post pathetic comments proving the a…
@aslamaliyu ROOKIE · 19 hours
Bro this is the most bias posts I've ever seen as someone whos sold and bought cybertrucks the used car market doesnt reflect this a used on…
An 11,000-volt ship connector packed into its own container just passed factory tests with outside inspectors watching, and it’s built to reel in a high-voltage cable from an offshore wind turbine, lock it in and let a service vessel charge its batteries without heading back to port
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@vancecolling ROOKIE · 3 days
Why use a cable? Could power move fast enough by induction coils and magnetic fields,
The Next Toyota Corolla Could Be More Innovative Than The Tesla Roadster, Claiming 100 MPG
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shaneg ROOKIE · 4 days
The mid 80s Corolla GT-S was was hella exciting.
A 177-degree underground water supply already runs through more than 20 miles of pipe under Boise to heat over 6 million square feet in the largest municipal geothermal system in the US, and it’s now headed for more than 300 affordable homes, something officials say no other American city has tried
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jonathancole ROOKIE · 5 days
You need to brush up on grammar. 'Gets' is simply lazy word choice.
A 4,300-ton floating crane with a 330-foot boom and no way to move itself spent almost a year moored off West Seattle waiting on a contract, and tugboats just pulled it away from the waterfront to go lift close to 2,000 tons at a time around the Pacific Northwest
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@davidbruce ROOKIE · 6 days
Metric Tonnes, not tons
A 36-inch release valve had already been opened ahead of the storm at a century-old concrete arch dam outside Prescott, Arizona, and water still poured over the top on Sunday, when runoff at two to three times normal sent more than 4,000 cubic feet per second into the lake
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@dianarobinson ROOKIE · 7 days
Loved this article on Watson Lake dam. The writer did a great deal of research and the findings were easy to understand. My only complaint..…
@luanbaldwin ROOKIE · 5 days
It's designed to overflow and create the ugly images on the spillway. The rock outcrops are the Oroboratory audience. It's ALL old wives tal…
A 97,000-ton nuclear aircraft carrier has now spent more than 2,000 days at the Virginia shipyard that built her, getting a new mast and work on over 600 tanks, and Navy documents point to one more year of it, with her sister ship already there for a five-year overhaul
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@coreywhitmire ROOKIE · 7 days
Let me say from someone who worked on both the 73 and 74…the schedule slips to the right are due in large to COVID. It pushed the 73 to the …
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 400-ton generator at a South Dakota dam was taken apart for the first time in 70 years, its 275-ton rotor lifted out by two cranes working as one, and the first new turbine runner just rolled into the powerhouse to take each unit up to 52 megawatts
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@hollycaines ROOKIE · 1 week
Id like to know who got the Contract to dispose of the old unit.. How much salvageable Copper and recyclable material there is at today's pr…
@susancrawford ROOKIE · 1 week
Very interesting since, I retired working in coal fired power plants. Thanks!
gregmccann ROOKIE · 1 week
What do they do with the old runners? Scrap them, refurbish them?
A 1,526-ton World War II submarine with no propellers was towed 113 miles back across Lake Michigan overnight by two tugboats and eased into her museum berth by 10 a.m., after a Wisconsin shipyard found only 10% of her hull steel had worn away in her first dry dock in 72 years
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@harryjohn ROOKIE · 1 week
I think we already and have been overpaying for are navy. I mean come on everyone knows aircraft and drones are future and with so many on a…
@lawrenceromanow ROOKIE · 1 week
Reminds me of movie called Down Periscope by Kelsey Kramer. Ironic isn’t it. ?
@billscheitzach ROOKIE · 1 week
A sister ship, the USS Cobia (SS-245), is moored across the lake at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc as a museum ship.
Six pump-turbines with rotors weighing up to 507 tons can put 1,320 megawatts on the grid in 12 seconds from inside a Welsh mountain, and the first two are coming out after four decades while the other four keep spinning in the same 590-foot cavern
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ernestschwink DRIVER · 1 week
I would really like to see the purposely built equipment that will be used to accomplish this, it will also be interesting if video is avail…
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 customersComment on the article →
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 9,889-foot copper and zinc mine in northern Ontario that has given up more than 170 million tons of ore was due to shut in December, and the gold miner that took it over with the cleanup bill is keeping its ore trains running and plans to drill the deepest base-metal mine on Earth
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@deborahairriess ROOKIE · 2 weeks
This was a set plan . I dont trust these corporations that hand over this kind of facility. Is the new buyers American.. Canadian rules of c…
More than 55,000 floating solar panels cover half of an 82-foot-deep Dutch quarry lake, and three years of sensors found up to 41% less oxygen beneath them in winter and about a third less algae growth than in open water
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@remi ROOKIE · 2 weeks
“Green” technology huh? Yeah right and those things don’t create enough energy to power a small neighborhood.
@alanpeery ROOKIE · 1 week
> GroenLeven says the two farms make enough electricity for about 9,000 homes
You have a strange idea of a neighbourhood. Given your green…
A 243-ton turbine assembly nearly 24 feet across was lowered back into a French hydro plant with only millimeters between its blades and a new ring set in concrete, and the rebuilt unit later climbed to 45 megawatts on its way back to the gridComment on the article →
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@ludodeg ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Hi Luis. Please use metric system. All engineering included by NASA is using metric system.
Hundreds of offshore wind turbines with 318-foot blades slowed to under two turns a minute off the Dutch coast for six hours one night so migrating birds could cross the North Sea, on a forecast that had to be locked in two days before the birds took off
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@williamgaylord ROOKIE · 2 weeks
1 Sky scraper kills more birds a year then a whole wind farm does in the same time.
@vincentbrennani ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Interesting that this hit piece makes no mention of otger bird kill mitigation techniques like painting tge tip of one blade, which has been…
@suejonez ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Nuclear energy doesn't kill birds. It doesn't make air pollution. And it's great to form a hybrid system with wind and solar balancing their…
A 57-ton wind turbine blade snapped off Nantucket and covered the island’s beaches in fiberglass, and 72 more of the 351-foot blades had to come down off the towers at sea before all 62 turbines on America’s first big offshore wind farm could spin
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mikeconley ENTHUSIAST · 2 weeks
One small reactor, on a couple of acres, could power 400,000 homes.
@jonathancole ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Stop this insanity. All of them should come down. They are a colossal mistake.
A 6,900-ton nuclear attack submarine lost permission to dive while she waited for an overhaul, was towed three times between Norfolk and a private shipyard and sat in dry dock with less than a quarter of the work done, and the Navy is now sending her shipyard workers to new submarines
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@frankhannigan ROOKIE · 2 weeks
So they can’t dive…
Reduce crew, use it for preliminary training and assign to drug intervention as part of the surface fleet.
@chuckw ROOKIE · 2 weeks
This is that “Peace dividend” America earned in the late 1990’s when the Cold War allegedly ended but I guess nobody told Russia. Starting …
A 2,600-megawatt power plant 4.5 miles below Niagara Falls took its first turbine apart down to the shafts and put it back together in 33 months, one of 13, and is bolting a 680-ton crane together on the plant floor to lift the other 12 out one at a time
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hanswolfgangsch DRIVER · 2 weeks
Im suspecting china can build from scratch in 2 years.
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) ?
Six 65,000-horsepower pumps have spent 75 years pushing water 280 feet uphill beside the largest power plant in the United States to irrigate 670,000 acres of farmland, and the building they work from keeps most of its floors hidden under the reservoir itself
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@dennislinsley ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Interesting. Similar to the Niagara Power Project in Western NY. There water is pumped from the upper Niagara River (before the falls) to …
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 1,000-acre Louisiana lake 4 to 15 feet deep drained into the salt mine under it in three hours, after an oil derrick on its surface jammed its bit more than 1,200 feet down and tipped over, and the whirlpool pulled two drilling rigs, a tugboat and a string of barges down with it
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@jf ROOKIE · 2 weeks
164 feet is a wild error. Funnily enough, that's the sort of error that can easily happen in a country still stuck on using 200 year retard…
A 15.9-megawatt Oregon powerhouse that has not made a watt in eight years is having the blades cut off its second turbine so the canal above it can dump storm runoff through the empty 12-foot pit, after gutting the first one opened up 1,000 cubic feet a secondComment on the article →
ernestschwink DRIVER · 2 weeks
They've been living quite well off of this budget for a while and no one was willing to stop milking the money from the cash cows. They've k…
A 2,535-ton boring machine is being cut to pieces half a mile under the Australian mountains after 5.3 miles of tunnel, with a 417-ton cutting wheel nobody needs anymore, while her sister is only halfway through a 9.3-mile drive
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@snprasad ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Didn't understand much after such a long article.
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.
A 499-foot wind turbine folded in half into a Missouri pasture after two loud noises at 4 in the morning, the fifth tower to go down at the state’s biggest wind farm, and photos taken that afternoon show three of its neighbors spinning beside the stump
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@dennydouglas ROOKIE · 2 weeks
At least it's not a nuclear meltdown.
A 484-megawatt reactor on the Missouri River ran 43 years and took 10 more to tear down, its 500,000-pound steel vessel was cut into 43 pieces with a torch and shipped out by rail, and a six-bay garage is one of six buildings still standing where the plant used to be
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@billsutton ROOKIE · 2 weeks
This is all SO disingenous. You say the site is clear yet all the fuel remains?
IT'S NOT CLEAR THEN IS IT!!!?
You say the containment…
An American Liberty ship that has sat on a Thames sandbank for 82 years with about 1,400 tons of munitions in her holds had her three 82-foot steel masts cut off underwater by a remote-controlled diamond-wire saw, one at a time in 15 days, and a 213-foot crane barge lifted them out with no diver in the water for the cut
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@colinbrewerton ROOKIE · 2 weeks
So if or when it explodes will the US pick up the bill for the loss of life and the billions of pounds in building damage? After all it does…
@marineelectrica ROOKIE · 2 weeks
Can't post a direct link here, so search for "The Richard Montgomery Matter " and follow the links from the site.
For more information abou…
@jordanfoster ROOKIE · 2 weeks
What idiot wrote "The English side of the Thames Estuary"...??? Both sides of the Thames Estuary are in England!!!
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 transformer feeding a 1,300-megawatt French reactor on the Luxembourg border caught fire as crews switched it back on at the end of a refueling outage, a water spray put it out before the fire trucks arrived, and this weekend only one of the plant’s four reactors is on the grid
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frankodonnell ROOKIE · 3 weeks
EDF must examine the transformer oil using spectroscopy for the prescence of specific hydrocarbons like methane, ethylene and moisture conte…
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…
The 2027 Subaru Outback Actually Got Cheaper, But It’s Not Really Any Cooler. It Doesn’t Need to Be
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@anthonydyson ROOKIE · 3 weeks
The Legacy wagon was cool. The first few Outback versions weren't too badly butchered. Then things got sillier with each iteration, leading …
A 4,080-ton landing ship that put tanks on Omaha Beach and was built to be scrapped after four years steered herself through three river locks on the diesels she was launched with, and came home to Indiana with 44,000 visitors in three and a half weeks
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@cracker9302000 ROOKIE · 3 weeks
Been on it. Absolutely one of the best things preserved, and a wonderful experience. So happy we have this. Along with the preserved Battles…
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.
A 213-foot wind turbine blade weighing 22 tons can’t make the right turn at the roundabout outside a McDonald’s in a small Australian town, so the company trucking 141 of them 400 miles inland plans to lay 1,673 feet of new road through the back of town to skip the turn
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@karla ROOKIE · 3 weeks
want to see how such trips are planned in advance using precise maps and drone footage? Have a look at heavy sim from heavygoods.
A 369-ton gas turbine came ashore on an Irish beach from a flat-bottomed barge that parked itself within three feet of its mark, settled on the sand as the tide went out and rolled it off over 82-foot ramps, because no road to the power plant could carry it
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@ernestschwink DRIVER · 3 weeks
With 2 plants running on the same "fatty fuel" the UK needs everyone to live off of a steady diet of Fish and Chips. Combine that with the C…
@mgriffin ROOKIE · 3 weeks
⁸why are they placing turbines in UK also ,from the article it appears these reserve electricity producers are going to Ireland ony
A 23-foot drone sailboat left Tasmania to circle Antarctica alone for 200 days, met waves over 26 feet within days of leaving, and will log more than 13,000 miles measuring how much carbon the Southern Ocean swallows before coming back to swap its sensors
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richardmercer DRIVER · 3 weeks
I'm not sure why the boat could only move at 2-3mph.
I would assume that it doesn't plane, even though there is plenty of wind in the South…
A 717-foot concrete dam in Idaho shut one of its 90-megawatt turbines after an oil cooler cracked and bearing oil ran out with the cooling water into the river that feeds the world’s largest steelhead hatchery two miles downstream, and the other 310 megawatts kept spinning
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@garywarwick ROOKIE · 3 weeks
Replace the shaft with 17-4 Stainless steel at H900, use beryllium copper for the bearings, then use purified water as the lubricant. This …
Americans Don’t Actually Want a Flying Car. If They Did, They’d Know That There Was Already a Flying Car in Existence as Long as Tesla Delayed the Roadster
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@davidweiss ROOKIE · 3 weeks
This is a sad, fatalist piece that ignores the importance and difference of a garage startup doing this, vs an entity with the reach, scale …
A 50-foot steel flood gate that protects 15,000 people in a California city could not be closed until divers scraped golden mussels off it, a fingernail-sized shellfish that turned up in the port two years ago and has spread 500 miles since, and the last scrape took ten hours
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@michaelelsegood ROOKIE · 3 weeks
They should fit covers over the two mating parts of the gate and then remove them when the gate needs to close.
A 5,883-foot plastic pipe 31.5 inches across, made in one piece straight out of a Norwegian factory into a fjord, was towed across the North Sea behind a tugboat and pulled under an English beach through a hole drilled from a field, and a second one followed it the same way
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@kennypierce ROOKIE · 3 weeks
Welded bundles of piping towed to sites. Upto 7 km long is also an interesting (old) technology. Pipes sunk onto
Seabed at location.