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A steel foundation tube 35 feet wide and 275 feet tall has been driven into the North Sea seabed, the largest steel base yet installed from a jack up vessel in Europe

The steel tube arrived at the site lying on its side, like a fallen smokestack. It was 275 feet long and 35 feet wide. A ...
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Pilots make 3 million ladder climbs a year onto moving hulls worldwide, and a newly mandatory global standard will force every one of those ladders out of service withi…

A deckhand shines a light over the side, and a rope ladder unrolls against the hull. A pilot steps off the pitching boat and ...
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A 253 torr reading on the summit of Everest is the whole reason ambient air works up there, but the textbook atmosphere puts that number 17 torr lower and makes the …

Two climbers reached the top of the world without supplemental oxygen in a feat physiologists said couldn't be done. Here's ...
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A girl who grew up “reading” the ocean by the Florida Keys is now descending into its darkest, most uncharted rooms near Hawaii searching for creatures that have never …

Discover the journey of Bella Iannotta Vignette as she explores the uncharted depths of the Hawaiian deep sea, searching for ...
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A wartime shelter cut into the granite under Stockholm holds servers 100 feet below the street today, and fitting them in meant blasting out more than 4 thousand cubi…

A data center has three problems and the building is only one of them. It has to be cool, because every watt that goes into a ...
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A nearly 2 megawatt solar array stands 12.5 feet above a working rice paddy in Tokushima, and for five months each year its panels tilt to give the crop below first …

Rice is not a shade crop. It wants as much direct light as a field can offer, and a fixed panel squared to the sun all summer ...
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High in the Alps at 6,890 feet, five wind turbines have learned to step aside when the autumn sky suddenly fills with migrating birds

High in the Alps, five wind turbines have learned to step aside when the sky suddenly fills with migrating birds, following a ...
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A 115 foot radius around the boulders at each turbine base held more than half of every lobster detection in the survey, while the sand those boulders sit on offers a l…

Researchers tagged 33 European lobsters at offshore wind turbine foundations in the Irish Sea and found over half had made ...
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Evacuation orders went out along the Sanriku coast within minutes of a magnitude 7 quake offshore and the forecast said 10 feet, while the tallest wave any gauge recor…

A tsunami in deep water is almost nothing to look at. The whole wave might be a few inches from trough to crest, spread over ...
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With a 1,200 ton body and only nine minutes of power left, Britain’s last large walking dragline walked backward 160 feet into permanent preservation

On a foggy Sunday morning in January, a 1,200 ton machine twitched back to life in a flat Yorkshire field. It lifted one ...
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A 5,500 pound weight typed in for 39 containers hid more than 900 tons aboard a drifting containership, which moved the draft 3 inches and stayed inside the tolerance the crew ...

A single data-entry error gave a 984-foot containership the wrong stack order, and 23 containers went over the side 94 miles off Oakland. Here is the mech ...
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French researchers painted miniature wind turbines like zebras and chessboards, and the birds revealed a strange problem: a warning pattern that screams “look at me” t…

French researchers painted miniature wind turbines like zebras and chessboards, and the birds revealed a strange problem: a ...