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7: Prius
For nearly a century, the auto industry was content to churn out gas-guzzling vehicles that peeled away at the earth's ozone layer and drained wallets with fuel costs. That changed when Japanese…
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10: Svalbard Global Seed Vault
There's a reason they call it the doomsday vault. Buried deep inside an Arctic mountain in Norway, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault was built to safeguard the world's food inventory, no matter what…
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48: Tengger Desert Solar Park
Spanning some 43 square kilometers (16.6 square miles) in the open desert—and supplying power to more than 600,000 homes—Tengger Desert Solar Park was constructed at a never-before-seen scale,…
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32: Vindeby Offshore Wind Farm
Three decades ago, there wasn't a single offshore wind farm in the world. These days, there are over 100, the largest of which can generate enough energy to power 600,000 homes. What set off the…
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39: Sorek Desalination Plant
Few places in the world face a more dire water situation than Israel, where the vital liquid has been in short supply for millennia. In 1998, a new crisis loomed. Israel, like much of the eastern…
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24: Hornsdale Power Reserve
Elon Musk is no shrinking violet. In the midst of a heated debate on the best way to recharge South Australia's power grid, the provocative Tesla CEO threw down a daring wager. In a 9 March 2017…
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It's Electric
Ferrari is killing the stereotype that electric cars lack power. The automaker recently completed a project to design a hybrid electric capable of reaching of 211 miles (340 kilometers) per hour.…
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Branching Out
The buzzy building material of the moment isn't a newly discovered metal mined from the Earth's core or a super-strong polymer created in a lab. No, it's actually one of the oldest construction…
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Packaged Good
The world is at war with plastic. Roughly one dump truck full of plastic waste enters the ocean every minute, adding up to 8 million tons annually, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).…
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Plugged In
As a cleaner energy future emerges, a major hurdle remains: the ability to efficiently move power, particularly from far-flung wind farms, solar facilities and hydroelectric dams to urban and remote…
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