World's Largest Ship Elevator Opens at Three Gorges Dam in Central China

Published 3 years ago in Technology. Submitted by thundersnow

The world's largest ship elevator at the Three Gorges Dam opened in Yichang City, central China's Hubei Province, on Sunday, with a prospect to increase the shipping capacity past the dam by six million tons a year.
The elevator, the existing largest lifting structure on a navigation route with the highest technical difficulty of the world, features large engineering scope, high lifting height and large weight lifting operation.
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World's Lightest Solid!

Published 185 days ago in Technology. Submitted by sux2bu

Aerogels are the world's lightest (least dense) solids. They are also excellent thermal insulators and have been used in numerous Mars missions and the Stardust comet particle-return mission. The focus of this video is silica aerogels, though graphene aerogels are now technically…
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You Use This Everyday But It Holds Secrets from You

Published 220 days ago in Technology. Submitted by sux2bu

Living in a modern age, we’re constantly surrounded by all sorts of tech. We’re so used to it, that we don’t even notice how ingeniously designed it really is. And there a lot of small mysteries: Why does a keyboard have legs? How does my phone vibrate? Why does…
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Your life and Videogames

Published 10 years ago in Technology. Submitted by Dokandre

A video that transmits a very nice message to all the people that spend lots of time playing.

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Your printer is a brat

Published 11 years ago in Technology. Submitted by Rob

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