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" Deltare built an impressive piece of pure Dutch engineering.\u00A0It&amp;#039;s called the Delta Flume. At 300 meters, it&amp;#039;s one long water trough with a big purpose: to make the highest man-made waves in the world. Inaugurated yesterday in Delft, Netherlands, the waves at the flume will reach 30 feet in height to test out solutions to erosion and flooding. A giant plate at one end of the 16 foot-wide pool pushes water down the canal, gradually increasing force until a giant wave crashes on the other side, with whatever is being tested on the other end. For example, if the experiment is testing out beach erosion, it will create a fake beach and batter it around with waves to test its effect.\u00A0 There are countless applications: tide-proofing off-shore turbines, testing the effects of rising sea levels, and building flood-resistant architecture. To get big solutions to big problems, it turns out you just have to build a giant wave machine to make giant waves.        Source: Slashgear "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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