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The U.S. Is About to Tap Into an Energy Source 50,000 Times Bigger Than We Need — Thanks to a Laser
In a dusty quarry near Marble Falls, Texas, a new kind of drill is melting its way through solid granite—not with blades or pressure, but with pure energy. As reported by the French news outlet ...
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Scientists find the granite spiral that should not be there
In the late 1800s, Flinders Petrie documented spiral drill grooves cut deep into hard granite. The feed rates and consistency of these grooves imply mechanical drilling far beyond hand-powered methods ...
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