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Everett Sloane

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A firenado can spin up inside a large wildfire and fling burning debris

Modern wind-turbine blades can stretch longer than a football field

The Three Gorges Dam is so massive it slightly slows Earth’s rotation

Iceland heats most of its homes with hot water pulled from volcanic ground

Hoover Dam’s concrete is still slowly curing decades after it was poured

8 of the largest nuclear power plants generating electricity today

A hidden lake the size of a sea sits frozen beneath miles of Antarctic ice

Rogue waves once dismissed as sailor myth are now caught on instruments at sea

A lightning bolt from a clear sky can strike miles from the nearest storm cloud

Heat pumps can slash a home’s heating bill even in bitterly cold climates

Rooftop solar plus a home battery can keep the lights on when the grid goes dark

Wildfire smoke can push dangerous air hundreds of miles from the nearest flames

The 2026 fire season has already burned more than eight million acres across the US

Small modular reactors promise city power from a machine the size of a shipping crate

The aging US power grid is the hidden bottleneck holding back the AI boom

A single AI data center can now draw as much power as a mid-sized American city

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