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France opens world’s first solar highway in Normandy as part of larger 4-year deployment
France has opened the world’s first “solar highway,” a half-mile-long “Wattway” covered with 30,000 square feet of resin-coated solar panels that is connected to the local power grid, according to a report from Phys.org The country’s Environment Minister Segolene Royal was present at the highway’s opening. The solar road will provide power to the street lights of Tourouvre in Normandy. […]
December 28, 2016
Construction Equipment
How bulldozers and heroic operators helped demolish Hitler’s Atlantic wall in the D-Day invasion (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
[imagebrowser id=88] “Hitler’s Atlantic wall cracked in the first hour under tempestuous allied assault. As I write, deeply dug into a beachhead of northwestern France, German prisoners, mostly wounded, are streaming back. … Shells are exploding all over the beach and out at sea as wave after wave of allied ships, as far as I can […]
June 6, 2014
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