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Around 5,000 stones went into the sea off Belgium with oyster larvae already settled on them, and every one of them was rock that an offshore wind farm was going to dump there anyway
13+ hour ago (792+ words) There is a ring of loose rock around the foot of every offshore wind turbine. It is there for one reason, which is to stop the current from scooping the seabed out from under the foundation. Nobody chose it for…...
NOAA scattered 90 drifting microphones across the Pacific where future wind turbines may float, and the whales and dolphins they recorded changed dramatically with the place and the season
13+ hour, 55+ min ago (579+ words) Federal agencies have installed hydrophones tethered to the seabed in the Pacific Ocean, miles offshore in deep waters. The mission is to evaluate deepwater regions for floating wind farm sites. Scientists deployed 90 drifting acoustic recorders to capture sound underwater. Instead…...
A California solar farm set aside 260 acres and applied for a 35-year permit to move two endangered kangaroo rat species into a new habitat being built for them
15+ hour, 55+ min ago (550+ words) A major solar energy development in California’s San Joaquin Valley is facing state and federal environmental review. The Chalan Solar and Battery Energy Storage (BESS) Project is expected to generate about 65 MW of electricity and includes 25 MW of battery storage....
Elk walk the same line down out of the snow every winter, and the 406,000 panel solar farm going up on that line had to buy 1,900 acres of replacement habitat before a post went in
17+ hour ago (784+ words) Somebody at the state wildlife agency read the site plan, looked at what that ground already does in winter, and wrote back with a list. It was not a rejection. It was a set of things the project had to…...
A bridge deck south of Lincoln carries 52 slabs of concrete mixed with steel shavings, and running the whole thing through a three day blizzard costs about 250 dollars in electricity
19+ hour, 5+ min ago (752+ words) The snow lands on the bridge and does not stay. On the road leading up to it the same snow is settling normally, an inch of it and rising, with tire tracks pressed into the top. The deck itself is…...
Americans toss out about 12 million tons of furniture a year, and the old sofas leading the pile are so fused together that barely a scrap of them can be recycled
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (806+ words) On a hot moving day in July, a couch sits abandoned at the curb. Its cushions are torn, one arm sagging, the fabric gone gray. By evening it will be hauled off with the rest of the trash. It feels…...
For the second time in 20 years, a telescope caught a star's dying "first breath" and found it had been quietly suffocating its own explosion
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (733+ words) When a massive star dies, its first announcement to the universe is almost impossible to catch. The core collapses, energy waves tear outward through layers of stellar material, and for a brief window — sometimes just seconds, sometimes hours — an X-ray…...
Bats declared nearly gone from hundreds of eastern American caves are still showing up on summer surveys and scientists are rethinking what that means
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (453+ words) At 69% of known hibernation sites across the eastern United States, northern long-eared bats vanished entirely within four years of White-Nose Syndrome’s arrival — a collapse severe enough to land the species on the federal threatened list in 2014. But when researchers placed…...
A 4,000 ton steel bridge rolled through a Hamburg neighborhood overnight on 1,088 wheels, and in places it had 16 inches of clearance from the walls of the buildings it passed
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (800+ words) Somebody had to unbolt the street signs first. Then the lamp brackets came off, and steel plates went down over the roadway, because the thing that was about to come through would not fit otherwise. It was a bridge. Not…...
Oregon authorized 406,000 panels, but left a 600-foot opening running through the facility so that the moose wouldn't have to go around miles of fencing
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (516+ words) One of the largest solar installations ever in the state has just been approved in Klamath County, Oregon. Developers need to work around animal movement corridors while delivering power to the grid as renewable energy expands across rural landscapes. What…...