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The Big Dig
Explanation
October 25, 2021
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“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
Explanation
January 4, 2022
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“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
Stuff I Looked Up
Explanation
June 5, 2022
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“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…”