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Extreme Engineering: A Tunnel Through The Alps
A Tunnel Through The Alps 7,546 feet: Most amount of rock above tunnel 26.5 million tons: Volume of excavated rock 95 miles: Total length of all tunnels and shafts 2,000: People working on the tunnel,...
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Extreme Engineering: A City Beneath A City
A City Beneath A City Nick Kaloterakis Name: Alternative Multifunctional Underground SpaceWhere: AmsterdamCost: $14.4 billionEstimated Completion: 2028The Challenge: Hollow out 900 million cubic feet...
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Name: Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed CrossingWhere: Dubai, United Arab EmiratesCost: $817 millionEstimated Completion: 2012The Challenge: Construct the world's tallest arch bridge on a bed of sandThe winning...
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Extreme Engineering: The Deepest Oil Well
The Deepest Oil Well 555 feet: Total height of spar 13 days: Time it took to secure spar to seafloor 10,000: Number of cars it would take to equal Perdido's weight 9,627 feet: Water depth at deepest...
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Extreme Engineering: The Tallest Skyscraper
The Tallest Skyscraper The centerpiece of Kuwait's entirely new City of Silk will be the Burj Mubarak skyscraper. Nick Kaloterakis Name: Burj Mubarak al KabirWhere: KuwaitCost: $7.37 billionEstimated...
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Extreme Engineering: A Floating City
A Floating City: Population 6,300 400 tons: Weight of soil and plants in the ship's park 500 tons: Water to fill world's largest at-sea swimming pool 724: Number of hollow 66-ton steel blocks that fit...
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Podcast: Extreme Engineering
The Tallest Skyscraper The centerpiece of Kuwait's entirely new City of Silk will be the Burj Mubarak skyscraper. Nick Kaloterakis In this episode of Cocktail Party Science, host Chuck Cage sits down...
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Power From The People
ROW YOUR CAR Charley Greenwood (right) and his son, Chuck, power-monkey the FM-4 HumanCar up to 40 mph on a hill near Cave Junction, Oregon. John B. Carnett Cave Junction, Oregon, was once, long ago,...
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The Moon Beetle
The Moon Beetle Blow it up to see what's on board the robotic prospector! David Wintergreen/Carnegie Mellon University Like most visitors to Hawaii, David Wettergreen spent his two-week trip there in...
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Hurricane Busters
Hurricane Fighting F-4 Graham Murdoch; F4 Phantom Jet Model: Infinite3DFX A Category 4 hurricane approaches New Orleans, yet "When the Saints Go Marching In" continues to spill out of clubs on Bourbon...
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Re-Print
Cheap Shot To refill a cartridge, punch a hole in the top, inject ink with a syringe, and seal it back up with a label (ink evaporates quickly). A resetter [orange] fools your printer into thinking...
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Ask A Geek
We-Track-You.com Dave Helfrey Yes, and there are lots of ways they can do it. Web pages are a flexible platform for exchanging information, but that also means it can be easy to track what you're...
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Popular Science Podcast: Power From the People
The Human Generator How far would you be willing to go to get off the grid? Blow it up! Kevin Hand Riding your bike to work? That's old school. Human powered transport options are expanding...
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Radio Reinvented
Zune Courtesy of Microsoft Many ordinary FM and AM stations transmit small amounts of digital data, such as song titles. And nearly 1,800 channels are entirely digital. Radio manufacturers are...
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Humanitarian Tech
AdSpecs U.S. Department of Defense/Joshua Silver Elastic Eyesight: For the 314 million people around the world with blurry vision, just put on a pair of Joshua Silver's AdSpecs and inject...
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Extreme Engineering: A Floating City
Technology Even the worst economy in decades can’t suppress the human urge to build. Today’s most ambitious projects are bigger and wilder than ever! Name:Oasis of the SeasWhere: Florida Cost: $1.2...
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Podcast: Extreme Engineering
Science Listen in as Popular Science editors explain how today's engineers are making the impossible real In this episode of Cocktail Party Science, host Chuck Cage sits down with Popular Science...
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Power From The People
Science Wind, solar, tidal—all are battling for the renewable-energy crown, but what about the six billion highly efficient short-stroke engines in our midst? What about us? Cave Junction, Oregon, was...
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The Moon Beetle
Technology A robotic prospector prepares for a moon mission in Hawaii’s volcanoes Like most visitors to Hawaii, David Wettergreen spent his two-week trip there in the sand. But instead of sunbathing,...
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Hurricane Busters
Technology How jet fighters could halt hurricanes A Category 4 hurricane approaches New Orleans, yet “When the Saints Go Marching In” continues to spill out of clubs on Bourbon Street. No one’s...
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