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Despite transporting millions of barrels across continents, oil and water in pipes crawl along at a pathetic three miles per hour. You could literally…
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For high-volume industrial eating, ladles are simply too slow. Select historical factories literally installed internal piping to pump hot soup straight from…
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In Stockholm, the central train station hosts over a quarter of a million rushing commuters every single day. Engineers realized these bodies generated an…
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The planet cools off at night by shooting invisible lasers into the void. Through radiative cooling, surface heat converts to infrared waves that bypass the…
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Instead of putting rocks in a truck, engineers just grind coal into a filthy black sludge, mix it with water, and pump it through pipes for hundreds of miles.…
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When a photon hits a solar cell, it knocks a particle loose but leaves an empty hole. These two linked phantom charges awkwardly travel together as an…
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