Which power plant does my electricity come from?
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London’s £4.5 billion super sewer is open for business
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The unique undersea tunnels that link the Faroe Islands
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Fehmarn Belt tunnel being built with innovative engineering is final step of project to connect Denmark – and the Nordics as a whole – to the rest of Europe
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The can opener. Engineering to solve human fallibility. (Spoiler: It didn’t totally work.)
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How French drains work
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Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines
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How to build an AI data center
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Danish King Frederik X inaugurated the first element of a future eighteen-kilometre tunnel under the Baltic Sea – Fehmarn Belt fixed link will slash travel times between Scandinavia and Central Europe
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Stockholm is in a race to fix its traffic congestion – but will this $4bn super-deep road tunnel under the Swedish capital work
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How bridge engineers design against ship collisions
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Connecting solar to the grid is harder than you think
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Norwegian bridge collapsed ten years after it was built – all because designers focused too much on making it look good
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How do fish ladders work?
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GM’s hydrogen ‘power cubes’ will be used in cement mixers and terminal tractors
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Why railroad tracks don't need expansion joints
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The engineering challenges of Grand Paris Express, Europe’s largest transport infrastructure project
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How the gas turbine conquered the electric power industry
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Japan uses blue instead of green on traffic lights
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Do droughts make floods worse?
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How Japan's maglev train works
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Where does grounded electricity actually go?
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Canada’s $30bn gamble to become an energy superpower
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Philadelphia I-95 bridge collapse explained
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Why did nuclear flop in Britain?
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The ground is deforming, and buildings aren't ready. First study to quantify effects of subsurface climate change on civil infrastructure
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How Chicago solves its overheating problem
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Why is desalination so difficult? An overview of seawater desalination: Removing salt to make drinkable water from the ocean.
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The world’s longest suspension bridge is history in the making. After 2,000 years of political and technical hitches, Italy says it’s finally ready to connect Sicily to the mainland.
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Why some roadways are made of styrofoam
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China’s global mega-projects are falling apart
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The insane scale of Europe's new mega-tunnel – Denmark is building a record-breaking tunnel to Germany
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Denmark and Germany now building the world's longest immersed tunnel
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Wooden bridge over a river in southern Norway collapsed early Monday – a similar nearby bridge, also made of glued laminated timber, collapsed in 2016
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The nuts and bolts of siting and building power lines
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Inside the first undersea roundabout – one of the world's most remote construction projects can be found on the Faroe Islands
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Going nuclear to desalinate seawater
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Turkey has built the longest suspension bridge in the world
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Funchal Airport, on the island of Madeira, was too short for modern commercial airliners but there was nowhere to extend to. The solution is one of the greatest civil engineering projects of our time.
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What are the differences between the Autobahnen and the Interstate Highway System?
I know there are some Germans on Tildes, figure at least one of y’all might know. How does a typical Autobahn differ from a typical Interstate in design and construction? How often is repair work...
I know there are some Germans on Tildes, figure at least one of y’all might know. How does a typical Autobahn differ from a typical Interstate in design and construction? How often is repair work done and how long does it last? What work would be required to upgrade an Interstate to Autobahn standards?
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What really happened during the 2003 blackout?
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Can you pump sewage? When it comes to wastewater, what goes down must come up again
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Rebuilding the Oroville Dam spillways
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Construction work has begun on the German side of an underwater tunnel connecting Germany and Denmark – €7 billion project set to be completed by 2029
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How road barriers stopped killing drivers
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Undersea rail-road tunnel between Denmark and Germany – Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link explained
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Repairing underground, high voltage power lines is nearly impossible
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Solar domes could desalinate seawater at a commercial scale
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How sewer pipes work (feat. fake poop)
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Tens of thousands of large dams are reaching the end of their expected lifespans, leading to a dramatic rise in failures and posing a serious threat to hundreds of millions living downstream
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