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American and South Korean scientists just fed water bottles, shopping bags and yogurt tubs into a single reactor without sorting them first, drawing off hydrogen more than 90% pure while most of the plastic's carbon came out as solid rock
4+ hour, 11+ min ago (1031+ words) Rinsing out a yogurt tub and checking the little number stamped into the bottom feels like the responsible thing to do. That number is a resin code, and it is there because most recycling processes only work on one kind…...
Japan Airlines just signed on to help build a passenger jet shaped like a stealth bomber, a 250-seat blended-wing design meant to burn 30 to 50% less fuel and become the first commercial aircraft of its kind in the early 2030s
2+ hour, 41+ min ago (906+ words) Want to take a stealth bomber to your next trip to Tokyo? That will likely never happen, but Japan Airlines is backing something very, very close. At the Farnborough Air Show on July 21, JAL announced its support for JetZero’s Z4 program,…...
America just handed out the federal recipe for mining uranium from the ocean instead of the ground: cheap yarn, chemically treated until the metal sticks to it, left soaking in seawater for weeks, proven so far at five grams, the weight of a nickel
7+ hour, 11+ min ago (1598+ words) Uranium comes out of the ground. You find a deposit, you drill it or you pump acid through it, and what comes back up gets milled into yellowcake and shipped off to be turned into reactor fuel. That has been…...
Germany just finished the machine for America's widest subway tunnel, a 54-foot borer whose motor alone weighs more than 300 tons, and the five-mile San Jose tube it was built to dig is still on the drawing board with no sailing date booked
5+ hour, 41+ min ago (1124+ words) When a subway project runs late, the boring machine usually takes the blame. Seattle’s Bertha stalled under downtown for two years and became the cautionary tale anyone brings up when a transit agency signs off on a giant custom borer....
While the Pentagon's 80-ton drone submarine, the size of a subway car, is still officially a minelayer, Turkey unveiled a 17.8-ton one specced to fire the full-size torpedoes of a crewed boat and launch an anti-ship missile from underwater
8+ hour, 41+ min ago (574+ words) The expensive part of a submarine was never the steel. It’s the crew sealed inside it, doing the quietest and most dangerous job in any navy, plus the years of training and the money it takes to keep them alive…...
While every wave machine you have seen floats where the storms live, the generator first in line for America's first commercial berth hides underwater, braking itself when the sea turns ugly, and it still has not left the dock
11+ hour, 41+ min ago (918+ words) Power purchase agreements are the least interesting paperwork in the energy business. A buyer promises to take the electricity, a generator promises to make it, both sides argue about price for a while, and somebody signs. The machine doing the…...
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
10+ hour, 11+ min ago (1790+ words) Say hydropower and most people picture a dam: a wall of concrete, a reservoir stacked behind it, a lake where a valley used to be. That is how the overwhelming majority of America’s water power actually gets made, and it…...
The exploding drone boats that rattled Russia's Black Sea fleet just landed an American factory, 26 feet of hull hauling 1,430 pounds of payload 800 nautical miles on a single tank of fuel, set to be built by the hundred in Oregon
13+ hour, 11+ min ago (1282+ words) When a foreign weapon starts working well enough to rattle a navy, the usual American answer is to buy a couple, take them apart, and spend the next decade funding something similar with a longer name. The exploding drone boats…...
The maker of James Bond's cars just built a jagged military SUV that will only ever exist inside Call of Duty, unveiling a life-size model in New York of a machine you cannot buy at any price, only play
14+ hour, 11+ min ago (292+ words) Aston Martin has revealed something unexpected in New York. Rather than a suave, classy sports car you’d see in a spy movie, Aston Martin has created a massive, hulking SUV that you’d maybe see in a video game. In partnership…...
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
15+ hour, 31+ min ago (354+ words) Okay, I know, I know. Is an electric Lotus really a Lotus? I don’t think anyone at the Southern California Lotus Club would consider it one, but I sent them this news anyway: The Emeya 900 has beaten a very impressive…...