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Saudi Arabia, a country that is roughly 95 percent desert, imports sand from Australia to make concrete, because wind-rounded desert grains are too smooth to bind and only angular river or quarry sand will hold a structure together
In 1859, a solar storm now called the Carrington Event pushed auroras as far south as Cuba and set telegraph paper on fire in offices from Boston to Paris, with operators reporting they could still send messages after disconnecting the batteries because the wires were carrying the storm's own current.
A grid-scale battery ferry roughly 130 metres long is now crossing the Río de la Plata between Argentina and Uruguay carrying about 2,100 passengers on charge alone, making it the largest all-electric passenger vessel ever floated
What happened when engineers built a single dam across the neck of a dying inland sea, and the northern lobe rose roughly four metres while fish returned to villages that had been stranded 100 kilometres from any shore?
