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\n Manson Construction’s Frederick Paup hopper dredger is the largest self-propelled hopper dredge ever built in the United States<\/a>
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by Carlos Albero Rojas<\/a> 28 July 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Manson Construction delivered its new hopper dredge Frederick Paup into service in January 2026, making it the largest self-propelled trailing …<\/p>\n

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\n A Caterpillar 797F haul truck costs up to $6 million before it moves a single pound of rock, and the $50,000 secret hiding on each of its six wheels is the number almost nobody outside a mine ever thinks about<\/a>
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28 July 2026<\/a>
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\n Bacteria embedded in concrete can seal their own cracks and could slash US bridge repair costs<\/a>
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28 July 2026<\/a>
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\n One and a quarter inches of pale frozen smoke matches the warmth of three and a half inches of fiberglass batts, and the near weightless solid making that possible holds records no other material on Earth has matched<\/a>
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28 July 2026<\/a>
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\n Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind farm delivers first grid power 28 miles off Virginia Beach<\/a>
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28 July 2026<\/a>
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A wind turbine blade can weigh over 30 tons and its tip moves at close to 180 miles per hour, yet the hidden steel ring buried inside its root that twists it away from a storm is something almost nobody standing at the fence line ever imagines<\/a>
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\n Trinasolar sets a world record with a 907-watt perovskite silicon tandem solar module<\/a>
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\n A 35.5% solar cell just set a new efficiency record, and the two materials stacked inside it change what a panel on your roof is truly capable of<\/a>
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28 July 2026<\/a>
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\n A 35.5% solar cell just set a new efficiency record, and the two materials stacked inside it change what a panel on your roof is truly capable of<\/a>
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by Hugo Rojas<\/a> 28 July 2026<\/a>
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\n Solarcycle opens a 5 GW solar panel recycling plant in Cedartown, Georgia<\/a>
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by Carlos Albero Rojas<\/a> 28 July 2026<\/a>
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\n Over 1.7 million brand new solar panels hit the resale market in a single year, and the hidden reason almost none of them ever touched a rooftop reveals a global oversupply glut reshaping US project economics<\/a>
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by Hugo Rojas<\/a> 28 July 2026<\/a>
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\n Greenbacker’s 500 MW Cider Solar Farm in Genesee County is under construction and due online by late 2026<\/a>
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by Carlos Albero Rojas<\/a> 27 July 2026<\/a>
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\n A rooftop solar panel is sold as a 25 year promise, and the chemistry that fires up the moment installation ends has already shaved watts before the first bill arrives<\/a>
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by Hugo Rojas<\/a> 27 July 2026<\/a>
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\n NC State and Nevados open the Southeast’s first agrivoltaics training site for solar grazing with sheep<\/a>
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by Carlos Albero Rojas<\/a> 27 July 2026<\/a>
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A steel tube as heavy as 900 pickup trucks was hammered into the North Sea floor<\/h2>\n

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\n A wind turbine blade can weigh over 30 tons and its tip moves at close to 180 miles per hour, yet the hidden steel ring buried inside its root that twists it away from a storm is something almost nobody standing at the fence line ever imagines<\/a>
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by Hugo Rojas<\/a> 28 July 2026<\/a>
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\n Dominion Energy’s Charybdis installs first turbine at the 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia offshore wind farm<\/a>
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by Carlos Albero Rojas<\/a> 28 July 2026<\/a>
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\n A wind turbine is sold as a clean 20-year investment the moment it starts spinning, and the up to $400,000 problem hiding inside the gearbox is something most Americans buying wind energy never think about<\/a>
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by Hugo Rojas<\/a> 28 July 2026<\/a>
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\n Revolution Wind’s 704 MW offshore farm begins delivering power to Rhode Island and Connecticut<\/a>
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by Carlos Albero Rojas<\/a> 27 July 2026<\/a>
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\n They just raised a 26 megawatt turbine with 502 foot blades on a test pad, and the detail that matters most to American developers is buried where nobody thinks to look<\/a>
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by Hugo Rojas<\/a> 27 July 2026<\/a>
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\n Pattern Energy’s SunZia wind farm in New Mexico begins commercial operations at 3,650 MW<\/a>
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by Carlos Albero Rojas<\/a> 27 July 2026<\/a>
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\n One and a quarter inches of pale frozen smoke matches the warmth of three and a half inches of fiberglass batts, and the near weightless solid making that possible holds records no other material on Earth has matched<\/a>
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by Hugo Rojas<\/a> 28 July 2026<\/a>
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\n Baltimore’s new Key Bridge will be Maryland’s longest cable-stayed span at 11,015 feet<\/a>
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by Carlos Albero Rojas<\/a> 27 July 2026<\/a>
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\n Milwaukee spent 5 years arguing about a mass timber tower, and the number that finally settled it came out of a fire lab in Madison instead of a city council chamber<\/a>
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by Hugo Rojas<\/a> 27 July 2026<\/a>
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\n Qatar is 3D printing two of its public schools as part of a project 40 times larger than any structure ever printed before, and the machine making it possible has never existed until now<\/a>
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by Hugo Rojas<\/a> 26 July 2026<\/a>
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\n Nearly 1 in 5 tons of the world’s plastic goes into construction, and researchers keep finding those same plastic particles lodged inside the river fish that families catch on weekend mornings<\/a>
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by Hugo Rojas<\/a> 25 July 2026<\/a>
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\n Concrete trucks rinse out at thousands of US building sites every single day, and the pH 12 slurry that drains off can bury the gravel nests that trout and salmon need to survive<\/a>
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by Hugo Rojas<\/a> 25 July 2026<\/a>
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\n A Caterpillar 797F haul truck costs up to $6 million before it moves a single pound of rock, and the $50,000 secret hiding on each of its six wheels is the number almost nobody outside a mine ever thinks about<\/a>
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by Hugo Rojas<\/a> 28 July 2026<\/a>
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\n Komatsu’s 1,000th autonomous haul truck goes to work at Barrick’s Nevada Gold Mines<\/a>
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by Carlos Albero Rojas<\/a> 27 July 2026<\/a>
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\n A machine as heavy as 6 million pounds crawls across Florida at barely 1 mile per hour, and the priceless load it carries so slowly is the reason it has to be the heaviest vehicle ever built<\/a>
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by Hugo Rojas<\/a> 27 July 2026<\/a>
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\n A crawler crane lifted 3,037 tons in six days in China and broke two world records at once, and the hidden move that made it possible is something almost no engineer outside the pit expected<\/a>
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by Hugo Rojas<\/a> 26 July 2026<\/a>
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\n A 9.1 million pound dragline was hauled across Texas in 27 loads in 2024, and the giant pit it left behind is becoming something almost nobody in the mining business expected<\/a>
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by Hugo Rojas<\/a> 25 July 2026<\/a>
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\n To build Britain’s newest nuclear plant, engineers brought in the largest crane on Earth, a 250 meter giant that can hoist 5,000 tons and lifts the reactor into place one huge steel ring at a time<\/a>
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by Hugo Rojas<\/a> 24 July 2026<\/a>
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