November 04, 2009 - The company has developed a way to turn plastic waste into oil—something that is extremely relevant with today’s crude oil scarcity and the fact that in the US, only 4% of the 48 million tonnes of plastic waste gets recycled!

July 08, 2009 - This piece of machinery is absolutely massive. The world’s largest digger/trencher stands at a remarkable 215 meters long (2 1/2 football fields) and weighs a ridiculous 45,000 tonnes. The sole purpose of this behemoth is to dig; that’s it, that’s...

July 07, 2009 - To commemorate Audi’s 100 years of service in the auto industry, Gerry Judah designed a centenary sculpture which was erected at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in Sussex, England. The statue is 44-tonnes, 32 meters high and it features a vintage...

July 03, 2009 - ...25 hectare public park will span 1/2 kilometre in length and will be 20 meters high. Two million tonnes of soil and clay and a load of time and labour later, this majestic natural beauty will be one of the most innovative land forms of it’s...

May 26, 2009 - Russian billionaire Telman Ismailov has spent over $1 billion on the project and for only $18,300 a night you can enjoy the 9,000 tonnes of white sand imported from Egypt, the 500,000 crystals and 23,000 square meters of Italian marble.

January 14, 2009 - This leads to total CO2 emissions of up to 0.5 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of cement produced. But the Novacem cement formula absorb far more CO2 as it hardens - about 1.1 tonnes. So the overall carbon footprint is negative - ie the cement removes 0.6...

November 26, 2008 - ...62 tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere every year, and will generate enough power for 60 homes. The problem faced by the city was that Santa Coloma de Gramanet only has a few open sunny places, and the cemetery was one of the only...

September 29, 2008 - These imaginative and funky art pieces were created for the annual Apple Festival in the southern Swedish city of Kivik. The creative force behind these fruity mosaics is Helge Lundstrom. Lundstrom used 4 tonnes of real apples in different colors...

September 19, 2008 - The much hyped Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is already down due to a faulty transformer. However, it’s not your typical PC circuit transformer. Weighing 30 tonnes, the special transformer is responsible for cooling part of the collider.

September 08, 2008 - ...suggests captures the 9 tonnes of carbon it produces per hour and compresses it to 500 times its size. This captured carbon is then injected 1,000m below the surface of the earth into porous rock, where it is supposed to stay, at least until...