A 152-wheel truck moves a 302,000-lb. tunnel-boring cutterhead, and the logistics look like a megaproject inside another megaproject
Before Snowy 2.0 can store clean power for millions of homes, some of its biggest pieces have to make a much more visible journey……
Business
China is set to start delivering XPeng AeroHT’s hybrid “Land Aircraft Carrier” in 2027, a modular eVTOL with thousands of orders, as the flying car is shifting from prototype to calendar
Have you ever sat in traffic and thought, just for a second, that the easiest…..
A golf course worth “200 billion” ended up covered in solar panels to generate energy, but the clock is ticking toward 2030, and that could turn a brilliant fix into a problem that’s nearly impossible to undo
A golf course built to help anchor South Korea’s giant Solaseado tourism city may be…..
Singapore is sinking 448 concrete giants into the sea, and the prize is a fully automated port bigger than 3,000 football fields
Singapore is turning part of the sea into the future home of global trade. At…..
Thousands of U.S. dams have been sitting useless for electricity, and a 3D-printed turbine could turn concrete into power
America may already have one of its next clean energy opportunities sitting in plain sight……
Spain threw a 42-meter buoy into the sea to make electricity, and the waves are now doing the job of a power plant
A giant Spanish-built buoy has just been deployed off the coast of Bizkaia, in northern…..
Brazil is building a 145-kilometer artificial river through Ceará, and the project could change how one of its driest regions survives drought
Brazil is close to completing one of the most ambitious water projects in Latin America,…..
Military & Defense
Brazil’s 18-ton Guarani armored vehicle crosses water, carries 11 troops, and shows how wheeled armor is changing battlefield mobility
Brazil’s Guarani armored vehicle was built for the battlefield, but its story now reaches far beyond military…..
Tech
Economy
Australia fixed a beach that wouldn’t stop losing sand by building a “jetty” about 1,600 feet long and burying 10 pumps on the seafloor, and the scale is massive: moving about 654,000 cubic yards of sand a year through a pipeline roughly 4 miles long, and it’s been running since 1986
Australia’s Gold Coast has a beach problem that sounds almost impossible at first. The sand…..
Saudi Arabia just brought Rabigh 4 online in the Red Sea, producing about 158.5 million gallons a day and storage tanks of roughly 317 million gallons, meaning the country is building water security the hard way: industrial-scale desalination
Saudi Arabia has switched on Rabigh 4 IWP, a huge desalination plant on the Red…..
Denmark has started sinking 89 mega concrete blocks that are 712 ft. long and roughly 81,000 tons each into the Baltic Sea to build the world’s longest immersed tunnel, intended to link the country to Germany in a 10-minute drive, and about 7 minutes by train
Most megaprojects spend years as drawings, speeches, and funding disputes. The Fehmarnbelt tunnel has now…..
China turned the sun into an industrial weapon, and the U.S. and Europe are now racing to escape the trap they helped create
The solar panel on a roof may feel like a local answer to the electric…..
Windows that used to waste sunlight could start making electricity, and the roof may no longer be the only place to put solar power
The next big solar surface may not be the roof. It may be the office…..
China is ripping Nigeria away from colonial-era tracks, and the 800-mile railway bet could redraw Africa’s largest economy
Nigeria’s old railway system was never really built for the country Nigeria has become. Much…..
