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Armenia put a spinning solar roof over grapes from a 6,000-year wine tradition, and now software decides how much sunshine the vines get before the fruit ever reaches a bottle

Solar panels above a 6,000-year wine tradition adjust in real time to control how much sunlight reaches the vines without compromising grape production.
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Pollinators lingered longer at flowers beside Wyoming wind turbines, and the closer they got to the towers, the more likely they were to crawl inside the blooms and drink

Pollinators lingered longer at flowers beside Wyoming wind turbines, and the closer they got to the towers, the more likely ...
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A short heat treatment and acid wash on worn solar cells recovered silicon at 99.7 percent purity and shook most of the silver loose, letting a single process pull both metals ...

A Sydney lab's new heat-and-etch process pulls silicon from old solar panels at 99.7% purity and frees 70% of their silver — metals no standard recycler c ...
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Switzerland opened a solar orchard on September 19, where apples, pears, and apricots grow beneath panels that can decide how much sky, sun, and shade each r…

A Swiss solar orchard is testing whether custom shading can help fruit trees grow while generating renewable energy under ...
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A tower section bound for 42 turbines missed its exit ramp near Ipswich and wedged under an overpass hard enough to shut the highway for two and a half days, and th…

A truck carrying half a wind turbine struck the Mount Crosby Bridge on Queensland's Warrego Highway, closing the road. The ...
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A sign gantry spanning 40 feet over a Houston roadway was cut from 1 retired turbine blade and rode out a hurricane with gusts over 100 miles an hour, where th…

A gantry carrying a sign over traffic does one job. It holds a flat panel in the air and it does not fall down.
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Boxes that fell off a ship tied up at a Long Beach berth came to 95 rather than the 75 first counted, where the barge crushed underneath them was the one scrubbing tha…

Boxes sit on each other with steel cones in the corner castings, tied down with rods and turnbuckles, and the whole tower ...
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An overpass in Houston with just 3 inches of clearance above the legal truck height logged 72 strikes in a single year, and only 8 of them ever made it into a police report

A 60-year-old bridge over I-10 near downtown Houston took 72 hits in one year despite three infrared warning systems, racking ...
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A 1,312 foot glass sound wall along a Dutch motorway generates power from both of its faces at once, and its measured output matched the most optimistic forecast pla…

The wall runs for a quarter mile along the eastern shoulder of the A50 motorway near Uden, in the Dutch province of ...
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A base of 21 tunnels dug into the Greenland ice sheet was presented to its host country as a construction and science station, but declassified files showed a plan to hide 600 ...

A reactor was installed to supply power without hauling fuel across 127 miles of ice, and it ran for about three years before being pulled out. The ice was the building material and also the countdown ...
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A 377 foot recyclable blade on a 15 megawatt turbine off the Danish coast can be dissolved back to its fibers when it retires, but only 40 of the 72 machines there will carry one

Everything else on an offshore turbine gets recycled at the end without much argument, because steel and copper go back to a furnace. The blades go to a ...
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Panels laid across 6 flooded gravel pits in northeastern France cover 314 acres and supply about 37 thousand people, but the anchoring alone took 21 weeks and 2 barges before a ...

Anchoring took 21 weeks with two floating barges working at the same time, before a single panel island was moored. The plant was inaugurated in June of 2025 by a developer and an asset owner working ...