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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 · 5 hours
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 · 7 hours
This is too good to be true! But this is what every truck buyer wants! I hope these guys make it happen!!
@ryancarter ROOKIE · 51 minutes
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 hours
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 ROOKIE · 16 hours
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 days
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 · 1 day
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 · 6 days
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 days
Fantastic idea. Canada & Norway should follow suit.
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 · 1 week
What does the initial price run? What kind of maintenance and operating costs are there?
@frankfagan ROOKIE · 1 week
Buildings have Storeys not stories.
@robofoxman ROOKIE · 1 week
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 weeks
And now Russia knows where everything is.
@davedrbixbixler ROOKIE · 2 weeks
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 weeks
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 · 3 weeks
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 weeks
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 · 3 weeks
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 · 3 weeks
With humid air coming off the ocean, silvered panels at the back of solar panels should condense the moisture?
@chrisandersen ROOKIE · 3 weeks
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 weeks
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 weeks
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 weeks
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 · 4 weeks
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 · 1 month
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 · 1 month
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 · 2 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 · 3 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?