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Kingdom Tower to Set New Skyscraper Records … For Now

Last June, we touched on the construction of Sky City in Changsha, China, a towering structure that will peak at 838 meters high. Nearing its completion, the engineers and architects are already hailing it a…

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Your Next Piece of Furniture May Be Partially Made from Potatoes

What’s normally a side dish may become a side table in your home in the near future. Potatoes are being served up in a new biodegradable, recyclable medium density fiberboard (MDF). MDF is a popular…

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Will Mile-Long Ice Wall Stop Fukushima’s Radioactive Water Leaks?

Researchers estimate that every day about 400 tons of highly radioactive water enters the Pacific Ocean from the tsunami- and earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The levels of contamination are dangerously high. TEPCO (Tokyo Electric…

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Machinery Downtime As Strong As Weakest Link

Machinery downtime means money is being lost. If one machine breaks, it can affect the entire production line and all the employees working the production line. True Downtime Calculations have been developed to evaluate the…

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The World’s Fastest and Tallest Water Slide is “Insane”

The Verruckt Meg-A-Blaster in Kansas is under construction and being dubbed the world’s fastest and tallest water slide, blowing away the previous records held by a 164-foot high slide in Brazil. While the exact height…

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5 Chemical Plant Explosions, The Causes & How To Avoid Future Disasters.

In perhaps one of the most dramatic videos ever, the Henderson, Nevada rocket fuel plant, supplier to the US space shuttle program, explodes in 1986, two years after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. For its…

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India to Build World’s Tallest Statue

In a bid to dwarf all of the world’s most imposing statues, India has broken ground on what will be the world’s tallest statue at 182 meters (600 feet). The planned Statue of Unity will…

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Massive Solar Tower to Become the World’s Second-Tallest Building

EnviroMission’s Arizona Solar Tower Project is a breakthrough in the renewable energy field. With the capacity to generate 200MW power, enough to power 150,000 US homes, it will capture worldwide attention. The best part about…

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Colored Solar Glass Pretty, Yet Powerful Enough to Generate Electricity for an Entire Building

Oxford Photovoltaics, a commercial offshoot of the University of Oxford, has developed colorful and transparent glass that can generate electricity from the sun’s energy. This semi-transparent dyed glass that acts as a solar panel enables…

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China’s Synthetic Gas Plants Would Choke Out 21 Billion Tons of Carbon Dioxide

Synthetic Gas Plants being planned in China present a host of ecological worries. China’s government has permitted construction of nine such plants in northern and western China. These plants are able to generate more than…

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Construction

Kingdom Tower to Set New Skyscraper Records … For Now

Your Next Piece of Furniture May Be Partially Made from Potatoes

Will Mile-Long Ice Wall Stop Fukushima’s Radioactive Water Leaks?

Machinery Downtime As Strong As Weakest Link

The World’s Fastest and Tallest Water Slide is “Insane”

5 Chemical Plant Explosions, The Causes & How To Avoid Future Disasters.

India to Build World’s Tallest Statue

Massive Solar Tower to Become the World’s Second-Tallest Building

Colored Solar Glass Pretty, Yet Powerful Enough to Generate Electricity for an Entire Building

China’s Synthetic Gas Plants Would Choke Out 21 Billion Tons of Carbon Dioxide

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