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250,000 tonnes of straw. One massive 44 MW power plant. ⚡🌾

England's Snetterton facility turns agricultural waste into electricity using a giant boiler, high-pressure steam turbine and exhaust-cleaning technology.

Here's how it works.

#Engineering #BiomassEnergy #pollution

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42,500 tons. Nearly 3 km long. NO DRIVER. 🚂

In 2018, an Australian iron ore train reached 162 km/h and ran uncontrolled for 91 km.

To stop it, railway controllers deliberately derailed the train—sending 245 wagons off the tracks.

#Engineering #RunawayTrain

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China built a 200-foot flying power station that generates electricity 2 KM above the ground! ⚡

The S2000 uses helium to stay airborne, 12 wind turbines to generate power, and a special tether to send electricity back to Earth.

No engine. No giant tower.

#Engineering #enegy

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A 500-foot GOLD MINE floating in the Bering Sea.

This giant machine used 130+ steel buckets to dig gold-bearing material from the ocean floor.

From 1986 to 1990, it recovered nearly 3.8 tonnes of gold.

Engineering on another level.

#Engineering #GoldMining

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7,100 tonnes. 23 kilometres. One entire floating factory.
In 2020, engineers in Mozambique moved an 8-story mineral-processing plant across land on hundreds of wheels—without dismantling it.
But how did they lift it out of the water?
#MegaEngineering #Engineering

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China builds a massive Ice City from frozen river blocks.

Covering 1.2 million m², Harbin Ice and Snow World features towers over 40 metres tall.

But how do these enormous ice structures stay standing?

#MegaEngineering #megaproject

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A 21,000-ton nuclear power plant was built thousands of kilometres away, floated across the sea and towed through the Arctic to Pevek.
Its two reactors now generate around 70 MW of electricity and also supply heat to the remote town.
#NuclearPower #MegaEngineering #Arctic

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A 1,000-foot-wide plant in Shenzhen processes around 5,000 tons of garbage every day and turns it into electricity.

Giant cranes feed six furnaces, the heat produces high-pressure steam, and turbines generate power — while people can walk on the roof above it.

#megaproject

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Canada literally mines oil from sand.
In Alberta’s oil-sands mines, giant excavators load oil-bearing sand into haul trucks capable of carrying around 400 tonnes. The bitumen is separated from the sand and upgraded into synthetic crude oil before being sent to refineries.
#mining

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Gold mining inside a volcanic crater.
Lihir Mine in Papua New Guinea operates beside the Pacific Ocean, where underground rocks can exceed 100°C and hot pressurized water can suddenly turn into steam.
Around 620 tonnes of gold have already been extracted here
#Mining #Engineering

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Iceland’s Hellisheiði plant uses heat from deep volcanic rock to generate electricity and heat water for homes.
Even stranger: captured CO₂ and hydrogen sulfide are dissolved in water, injected underground and converted into solid minerals inside volcanic rock.
#engineering

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A 640,000-ton industrial factory was built thousands of kilometres away from its final location, made to float on a hollow concrete base, and then towed across the Arctic for 22 days.
This is Arctic LNG 2.
#Engineering #MegaEngineering #Arctic

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A 370-ton crawler mines the Atlantic seabed more than 100 metres underwater, then pumps the material up to a 600-foot ship where rough diamonds are recovered.
That ship is Benguela Gem, built to recover around 500,000 carats a year.
#Diamonds #Engineering #megaproject

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Qatar’s Pearl GTL can turn natural gas into diesel without refining crude oil.
Gas becomes syngas, then a heavy wax-like material, before being processed into diesel, kerosene and other liquid fuels.
#Engineering #Energy

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A floating plant on Lake Kivu pulls water from nearly 1,000 feet below the surface, extracts methane dissolved inside it, then sends the gas through a 13 km pipeline to generate electricity for Rwanda.
An incredible piece of energy engineering.
#megaproject #Engineering

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Residents smelled gasoline before Guadalajara’s streets exploded.

On April 22, 1992, underground blasts destroyed roughly 8 km of roads. The official death toll: 212.

How did a fuel leak cause this disaster?

#disaster #engineeringfailure