The world’s largest offshore wind farm is taking shape in the North Sea, but one giant cable will decide if it can power Britain
A cable has been pulled from the North Sea onto the Norfolk coast, and that quiet operation says a lot about where Britain’s energy…..
Business
Turkey wants to carve an artificial canal beside the Bosphorus, and the move could turn Black Sea traffic into a new toll empire
While the Strait of Hormuz dominates the energy headlines, Turkey is still looking at another…..
The world’s largest tunnel boring machine is more than 100 meters long, and it is leading one of the most ambitious underground projects
Most people picture tunnel construction as brute force. A giant machine digs, trucks haul dirt…..
Saudi Arabia is forcing a 2.8-kilometer artificial lake into the desert with three giant dams, and nature is the first enemy
Saudi Arabia’s plan to carve a 2.8-kilometer (1.74-mile) freshwater lake into the mountains of Trojena…..
China is pushing a $4 billion railway through South America, and the real target is the U.S. grip on the region’s trade routes
China’s role in Colombia’s transportation future is no longer just a diplomatic talking point. Bogotá’s…..
Beijing is carving a canal so ships can move deeper inland, and the project turns geography itself into China’s next trade weapon
China’s Pinglu Canal is entering its final stretch, and the latest sign was not a…..
AI is entering the emergency call system, and a $60,000 test could decide which calls reach humans before 911 lines clog up
Anoka County, Minnesota, is testing a new artificial intelligence system that could change one of…..
Military & Defense
Two Russian satellites almost touched in orbit, and the strange 10-foot maneuver is raising the question no military wants above Earth
Two Russian satellites have moved to within roughly 10 feet of each other in low Earth orbit,…..
Tech
Economy
Australia is covering its fields with sheep wool to fight a farming crisis, and the numbers suggest the strange idea is working
Australia is testing a surprisingly simple answer to a very expensive farming problem. Instead of…..
A giant offshore platform is being thrown into the Atlantic to turn ocean temperature differences into electricity, and the test could change clean power
A British clean energy company has put an unusual machine into the Atlantic off the…..
A submarine bullet train will run at more than 250 km/h under the sea, and two key cities are about to feel much closer
China’s next great rail story is not an inaugurated bullet train racing under the sea,…..
The world’s highest hydroelectric plant could power an entire region, but its real test is surviving where engineering reaches the limit
China is pushing clean energy storage into extreme territory with the Daofu pumped-storage power station,…..
ExxonMobil’s Ionian drilling plan has started a port race in Greece, and one small gateway is chasing a €400 million prize
Greece’s offshore exploration restart just took another step forward, with ExxonMobil, Energean, and HELLENiQ Energy…..
A 34-mile bridge cuts across the sea for 40 minutes, and the engineering behind it feels closer to a floating city than a road
The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge is the kind of project that makes your brain do math……
