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The Big Dig
Section
Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
October 25, 2021
Words
870

“The Big Dig was the largest highway project in American history. It was conceived in 1987, broke ground in 1991, and wasn’t completed until 2007. Costs rose from $2.3 billion to $14.8 billion. When the loan is paid off in 2038, the total cost will have been $24 billion. Four workers died during the…”

Macadam
Section
Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
January 4, 2022
Words
157

“A type of road construction. A definition : to construct or finish (a road) by compacting into a solid mass a layer of small broken stone on a convex well-drained roadbed and using a binder (such as cement or asphalt) for the mass In my reading, it appears that this is the type of road where layers…”

Megawatt
Section
Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
June 5, 2022
Words
932

“It’s a lot. But it gets complicated, because energy exists in two dimensions: As a rate at any particular instant in time (‘megawatt’) As a sustained, aggregated amount delivered over a period of time (‘megawatt hour’) So, ‘a megawatt’ is an amount of power being delivered at a singular moment. If…”