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All reports from Factory & Fields, across every series.
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Where the Mower Sound Is a Moo: Inside Silicon Ranch’s Christiana Solar Ranch
On a November morning in Christiana, Tennessee, the lawn mowers at a Middle Tennessee solar field make almost…
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Inside the Tokyo Office Tower That Makes Its Own Hydrogen From Rooftop Sunlight
On the roof of Shinagawa Intercity, a mixed-use office and retail complex a short walk from Shinagawa Station…
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Why Meta Is Betting on a Low-Carbon Cement Plant in Missouri
In Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, a town of fewer than 5,000 people on the west bank of the Mississippi…
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Ricoh’s Shibata Plant Is Learning to Print Solar Cells, Not Just Documents
At a site in Shibata, a town in Japan’s Miyagi Prefecture, that Ricoh founded in 1967 as an…
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Nordhavn’s FlexHeat: How a Heat Pump Learned to Answer Copenhagen’s Grid in 90 Seconds
A cruise-ship terminal on Copenhagen’s outer waterfront draws its heating and hot water from a pump a few…
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Inside the French Data Recovery Lab That Keeps 50,000 Hard Drives on Hand for Spare Parts
Recoveo’s lab in Roanne keeps roughly 50,000 hard drives in stock, not to sell, but to harvest matching…
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Inside the Vauvert Plant That Turns PVC Casing Into Water and Geothermal Wells
A PVC pipe plant in southern France cuts 800 tonnes of well casing and screen a year, for…
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Sims Lifecycle in Tennessee: the 200,000-Square-Foot Plant That Turns Dead Electronics Into Raw Material
Sims Lifecycle Services processes up to 6 million pounds of used electronics a month in La Vergne, Tennessee:…
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Inside the Clean Room Where Verkor Perfects EV Batteries Before Scaling Them to a Gigafactory
On a former Siemens site in Grenoble, Verkor runs a clean-room pilot line building battery cells to the…