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A 538-foot Belgian ship that turns five this month is the strongest cutter dredger on Earth, a 59,250-horsepower machine with a 2,550-ton cutting arm that chews solid rock off the seabed so ports can go deeper without dynamite — including 1.7 million cubic meters of Portuguese granite in six months
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@timturner ROOKIE · 4 days
Check the AIS - it's currently dredging that Senegalese port.
Germany is hanging a 324-millimeter drone the size of a spare torpedo off its non-magnetic minesweepers, a machine that swims at walking pace for a full day, maps the seabed 600 meters down and comes home while its 43-kilogram sister rams the mine and dies
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@negarosenberg ROOKIE · 7 days
I believe you meant 324 centimeter, not millimeter.
@georgepeters ROOKIE · 4 days
No. The 324 millimeter cited is correct. It is about one foot in diameter.
A 661-pound Swedish drone fires out of a submarine’s torpedo tube, crawls across the Baltic floor at 3 knots, picks up a second one that has been sitting there waiting and tows it back in through the same hole
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@markkosko ROOKIE · 7 days
Regarding sun launched drones. Mention the U.S. Navy LMRS (Long-Term Mine Reconnaissance System), designated as the AN/BLQ-11. Successful te…
A 22-ton pod sitting 1,640 feet down off Norway lets the ocean do the squeezing that a coastal plant builds a whole pump hall for, pulls a million liters of drinking water a day off the seabed, and the only wobble on its sensors is the tide
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@sherlockholmes ROOKIE · 7 days
I don't understand the concept. The pressure that the ocean exerts on the intake tube is the same as the pressure of the water on the tube …
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…
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 DRIVER · 2 weeks
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 weeks
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 weeks
How does it burrow down below the sea bed?
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 · 2 weeks
Sounds like a great idea and a good way to use this type of material instead of storing it as hazardous waste forever.
williamsabey DRIVER · 2 weeks
Until one starts leaking, releasing radioactive Strontium into the ocean... You do realise that radioactive waste doesn't last "forever", ri…
@josephburke420k ROOKIE · 2 weeks
sounds like a great way to lower population, keep throwing radioactive material into the water to slowly poison the Earth's water supply -- …
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…
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…
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 · 2 weeks
I don't think the hook that failed was "...at the end of the rope." ! I think they use cables.
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
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 · 3 weeks
Let ‘s not get too clever on this. Remember nuclear power?
@agirobotics ROOKIE · 3 weeks
data centers should be built at the water pumping station.
A 190-foot free-fall tower drops riders inside the cooling tower of a 327-megawatt German reactor that was finished, filled with liquid sodium and never handed a single fuel rod, and a Dutch scrap dealer bought the site for about $3 million
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billfortune ROOKIE · 3 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…
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 · 4 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…
A turbine the size of half a basketball court has sat invisible on an Alaskan riverbed since 2019, powering a village of 70 where diesel lands 2,000 gallons at a time on old DC-4 planes, and Congress just moved to stop licensing it like Hoover Dam
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@ryancounts ROOKIE · 4 weeks
I would think that alternative energy production would have greater offset percentages due to the logistics involved in the fuel transport b…
A 165-ton nuclear cask that fits in a two-car garage but weighs as much as two Abrams tanks just got a British ship rebuilt around it, holds re-machined to the millimeter, to haul Japanese reactor fuel across the planet to France
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@stubarrett ROOKIE · 1 month
Machined to the millimeter... Lol
Six seabed turbines built for a French strait where the current outruns most sailboats just got stuck on a single missing document, with every permit signed, the shipyard waiting 20 miles up the coast and the tide arriving on schedule twice a day
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@manfredknorr ROOKIE · 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?
A Texas Man Just Drove His Tesla Cybertruck Into a Lake to Test Its ‘Wade Mode’ Feature. The Truck Shut Down and Began Filling With Water. Tesla’s Warranty Does Not Cover Water Damage
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@khaderkhan ROOKIE · 1 month
If you're gonna be dumb you got be rich.
@khaderkhan ROOKIE · 1 month
Wade mode... Like you know, wading waders? 3 feet or below. And just because your car/truck has an emergency function doesn't mean you test …
@morisdigiovanni ROOKIE · 3 weeks
If he fills it with rice, it’ll be okay. 🤣🤣😅😅😂😂
A nuclear reactor shelved almost a decade ago just got pulled out of retirement to float on a barge, with a UK company studying how to build the whole plant inside a shipyard like a ship and tow it to any port the grid can’t reach
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mikeconley DRIVER · 1 month
Water-mobile nuclear power can be docked at any port, providing 24/7/365 local power without expanding our energy production footprint -- un…
A 105-meter wind turbine tower made of laminated spruce has been spinning outside a Swedish town for 15,000 hours, stronger by the pound than the steel it replaces and emitting 90 percent less carbon — because a steel tower gets too wide to truck down a road past about 100 meters
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@charlespate ROOKIE · 1 month
Remember when we switched from paper to plastic to save the trees?
@garettschmidt ROOKIE · 1 month
Nothing saves the environment, like cutting down the trees that are the carbon sink for an 18-25% efficient wind gearbox. Well done oh virtu…
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…
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…
America just cleared a sodium-cooled reactor to start building that will run on uranium pulled from a reactor shut down in 1994, fuel older than half the company building it, a machine small enough to truck to a data center that can also run on other reactors’ waste
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aussiesteve ROOKIE · 2 months
I think Australia needs this and could potentially be the world leader in facilitating manufacturing
China just tested a 582-ton superconducting magnet, the largest ever built for fusion — a D-shaped ring as heavy as 300 pickup trucks, made to pen a plasma cloud hotter than the Sun’s core in mid-air — and every piece of it, wire to steel, was made at home
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@randynamen ROOKIE · 2 months
I wouldn;t be surprised if the Americans try to sabotage it to ensure their energy dominance.
@larryvaldez ROOKIE · 2 months
So...wtf does all this mean? They can weaponize a magnet to lift an aircraft carrier out of the water and somehow create an atomic cloud. T…
@mattrick747 ROOKIE · 2 months
Our national magnetic lab may source materials from elsewhere but 6 Tesla is small compared to their breakthroughs, especially when it comes…
New Zealand just put a 16-ton red machine on the seabed that walks on two seven-meter steel corkscrews and shaves invasive seaweed off the bottom, roots and all, like a giant underwater wood planer, clearing 10,000 square meters a day where a diver clears 70
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@reubenparr ROOKIE · 2 months
Why not a picture of the actual machine and not just the barge on the surface. There are plenty of images available.
@alastairgilfill ROOKIE · 2 months
I was wondering the same thing.
@adolfstephanusm ROOKIE · 2 months
Wow what a headline. Yikes.
A Canadian company buried a giant radiator 2.8 miles under a German town to pull power from hot rock anywhere on Earth, and six months after it hit the grid, its own CEO admits two loops are clogged, the budget’s gone, and it’s walking away
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@mattsmith ROOKIE · 2 months
Cool! I've never heard of this process. It sounds promising. But I still believe OIL &GAS is the most reliable source of energy. Nuclear is …
Everyone’s chasing the cheap electric truck, but a startup just undercut Bezos-backed Slate with the opposite bet: a $21,500 gas pickup with a six-speed manual, real four-wheel drive and 600 miles a tank, reviving a brand that’s been dead since the 1950s
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@casey ROOKIE · 2 months
This is too good to be true! But this is what every truck buyer wants! I hope these guys make it happen!!
@ryancarter ROOKIE · 2 months
I don't believe that it's realistically happening, but if be lying if I said it didn't turn me tf on to think about it being real.
@thomaskeen ROOKIE · 2 months
Looking forward to seeing this. My last vehicle purchase was old because of problems with newer vhicles and I can wrench on it with out need…
Slate reveals JUST how bare bones its trucks will be in order to be under $25K, including crank windows and no paint. At least Americans can finally afford an EV pickupComment on the article →
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@jdjones DRIVER · 2 months
A/C. Anything else I'll do myself
Canada just cut a hole in the roof of a working nuclear reactor, hauled out eight steam generators weighing 100 tons each, and lowered new ones into the same hole, bringing the reactor back online seven months early to run another 35 years
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arthurb ROOKIE · 2 months
I enjoy your articles and how you present them. Too bad no pictures or graphics. I'd be interested in how the pipes and connections look as …
James L ROOKIE · 2 months
My father in law worked there for 32 years.
China just strung 22,000 tons of steel, three Eiffel Towers’ worth, across a canyon in Guizhou to build the highest bridge ever, a four-lane highway hanging 625 meters over the river, higher than the Empire State Building
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@sathyanarayanan ROOKIE · 2 months
It is really unimaginable, marvellous task, congrats to the people who planned and executed, appreciating from India.
Russia built a 21,000-ton nuclear power plant on a barge with no engine, towed it thousands of miles to an Arctic port, and plugged it into the grid, the only floating reactor running anywhere on Earth, with four more on the way
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@groupwatchdog ROOKIE · 2 months
Fantastic idea. Canada & Norway should follow suit.
@khkh ROOKIE · 21 hours
Russia can MELT A LOT OF ICE for their 'New-Shipping-Lane' with a reactor like that!
A windowless concrete tower 40 stories tall on the China coast stacks 35-ton blocks to store a wind farm’s power, lifting them when the wind blows and dropping them through generators when the grid needs it, no lithium inside
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@johncreel ROOKIE · 2 months
What does the initial price run? What kind of maintenance and operating costs are there?
@frankfagan ROOKIE · 2 months
Buildings have Storeys not stories.
@robofoxman ROOKIE · 2 months
It's recycled blocks of concrete, dude. It's cables that lift it up and down. What maintenance is there for that? Minimal cost and minimal m…
A U.S. Navy underwater drone just spent a week patrolling the Baltic seabed where the cables keep getting severed, mapping more than a dozen miles per charge and flagging anything that moved since yesterday
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@oscargoldman ROOKIE · 2 months
And now Russia knows where everything is.
@davedrbixbixler ROOKIE · 2 months
Everyone knows, they've always known. They're supposed to know to avoid doing exactly what they're doing. You can know too because there's…
@davedrbixbixler ROOKIE · 2 months
Submarine Cable Map, Google it.
Australia just delivered the U.S. Navy a drone submarine that travels 1,240 miles underwater, dives to 6,600 feet, and ships inside a standard commercial container, same box that hauls flat-pack furniture
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@timmiller ROOKIE · 2 months
What a pleasure it is to see a AUSTRALIAN companie to come up with a great idea like this ...All the best for your future
@aussiesteve ROOKIE · 2 months
This definitely TRUMPs the AUKUS deal. Take back that US$386b and build a few hundred of these... then sell them to the US with 200% tarriff
German scientists just found that a solar farm bigger than 20 square kilometers could start making its own rain over the desert, and they’re now hauling laser equipment into the UAE to prove it
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@justincox ROOKIE · 2 months
There was research done on this using the Sahara Desert, and the effect of altering one desert of the world could cause severe to catastroph…
@raharishvelu ROOKIE · 2 months
With humid air coming off the ocean, silvered panels at the back of solar panels should condense the moisture?
@chrisandersen ROOKIE · 2 months
So they're gonna put this huge black field in a desert, creating 3 times as much heat, at least bright idea.
A hydrogen submarine drone can now grab onto the seabed and silently watch a cable or pipeline for 16 days straight, with no ship overhead to give it away. Canada’s defense agency owns this one
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@arthurb ROOKIE · 3 months
Interesting. I wonder if they approached Ballard Power at any point. Next they need to develop hydrogen filling stations they can drop to t…
@anitalivemore ROOKIE · 3 months
Need a self-sufficient hub for recharge and suddenly the drones run 365 days of sun and sea water.
Australia has no spare line to carry the load, so it’s replacing all 287 towers on a corridor energized since 1949 without ever cutting power to its iron-ore industry and renewable grid
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@rupert ROOKIE · 3 months
A good article showing what engineers not pol liticians can do
America taunted by Chinese electric pickup that’s only $18,000
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@alexdoy ROOKIE · 3 months
If it ever sold in the us.
It would cost more than 18000
If it sold under 30000 I would buy it.
Ford’s Sub-$40,000 Pickup Won’t Have a Body-on-Frame Chassis. It Won’t Tow What an F-150 Tows, Won’t Off-Road Like a Bronco, and Will Get Totaled by a Fender Bender
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@stevewehner ROOKIE · 3 months
This truck started under 20 then it went up to 30 now it's 40 and it's still not built. I can see it a frame with a box and plenty of wires …
@garygrande ROOKIE · 3 months
There are dozens of uses for small trucks that don't involve off-roading or towning. Surprising that the witer makes the case that this thin…
Ford Just Confirmed What Its $30,000 Electric Pickup Will Look Like — and Americans Should Be Relieved
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@johnelbersii ROOKIE · 4 months
30k to start and soon to be 45k with dealer markup
“It’s an opportunity, not a risk”: Kia just confirmed its electric pickup for America… but there’s one detail that changes everything
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@@williamross ROOKIE · 5 months
Gas being 4.15 a gallon might change America's perception of electric vehicles
Maverick Hybrid: the truck that makes zero sense on paper but is perfect in real life
42 MPG city. Fits in any parking spot. Hauls my kayak, tools, and the weekly Costco run. Under $30k. I genuinely don't understand why every single one of these isn't sold out. It's not fast, the bed is small, and the interior is basic. But as a daily driver that occasionally needs to haul stuff? Nothing comes close.
Silverado vs F-150 for towing a 7,000 lb travel trailer?
Looking at either the 2026 Silverado 1500 LT with the 6.2L V8 or the F-150 XLT with the 3.5L EcoBoost for towing our new travel trailer (7,200 lbs loaded). Both seem capable on paper but I want real owner experiences. How's the stability? Fuel economy while towing? Any issues with transmission temps on long grades?