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- Season 1 1993-12-10
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- Season 23 2022-02-16
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- Season 12 Poison
- Season 12 Car Tech of the Future
- Season 12 The Arch
- Season 12 More Nature's Engineers
- Season 12 World's Biggest Machines 3
- Season 12 Blackbird Stealth
- Season 12 The Butcher
- Season 12 George Washington Carver Tech
- Season 12 Firefighting!: Extreme Conditions
- Season 12 Desert Tech
- Season 12 Sub Zero
- Season 12 The Great Bridge: 8 Miles of Steel
- Season 12 Howard Hughes Tech
- Season 12 Edwards Air Force Base
- Season 12 Taxidermy
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- Season 12 The Cape Cod Canal
- Season 12 Secret Japanese Aircraft of World War II
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- Season 12 Secrets of Soviet Space Disasters
- Season 12 Mountain Roads
- Season 12 Route 66
- Season 12 Cowboy Tech
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- Season 12 Challenger Tank
- Season 12 World's Biggest Machines 4
- Season 12 Dredging
- Season 12 Lube Job
- Season 12 Secret Luftwaffe Aircraft of World War II
- Season 12 The World's Fastest
- Season 12 The B-2 Stealth Bomber
- Season 12 High Risk: Helicopter Lineman
- Season 12 Wiring America
- Season 12 Nature Tech: Lightning
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- Season 12 Engineering an Empire: Rome
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- Season 12 Sugar
- Season 12 Cereal: History in a Bowl
- Season 12 F-117 Nighthawk Stealth
- Season 12 German Small Arms of World War II
- Season 12 The Auto Store
- Season 12 Secret Allied Aircraft of World War II
- Season 12 Engineering Disasters 17
- Season 12 Brewing
- Season 12 The Lumberyard
- Season 12 Da Vinci Tech
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- Season 12 More Hardware
- Season 12 Weird Weapons: The Allies
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- Season 12 Nature Tech: Hurricanes
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Modern Marvels - Season 12 Episode 10 Desert Tech
7.97 44 minutes It’s hot, dry, deadly, and hard to ignore with close to 40% of Earth classified as desert. But in this scorching hour, the desert turns from barren wasteland into an environment rich with hope. In the Middle East, desalination of seawater now fills water needs. Americans have created booming desert communities like Las Vegas, where the Hoover Dam produces hydroelectric power and manmade Lake Mead supplies water. Native Americans farmed the desert on a small scale, but 20th-century technology begot greater opportunity. Once desolate areas of California and Mexico now grow agriculture due to irrigation, and the desert’s abundant sunshine allows solar-energy and wind-power production. And in the future, desert technology may enable colonization of planets like Mars. We also take a look at how refrigeration and air conditioning have made life in desert communities tolerable, and examine the latest in survival gear and equipment.
