Donnie the TunnelBoringMachine, behind some people.
https://www.trenchlessinternational.com/2019/12/17/boring-begins-on-coxwell-bypass-tunnel/
#Coxwell
This prufrock thing pure vaporware. Elon Musk has no e...rience in mechanical engineering yet alone in tunnelboringmachines. You may hire some experien...this and that on a Lovat TBM. But inventing a tunnelboringmachine 10 times faster than standard...
' thanks to the Japanese engineers' contributions to tunnelboringmachine technology'?
Are you serious?
The last time I checked it was the USA a.k.a Robbins, who invented TBM and took it further than anyone else.
As usual, New Civil Engineer is has a more sober header than daily newspapers.
Progress revealed on HS2 tunnelboringmachines
https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/progress-revealed-on-hs2-tunnel-boring-machines-27-05-2020/
Yes it is true that whenever an article has "Elon Musk" in it, the guy...ts the benefit of the doubt even for radical things like 10 times faster boringtunnelboringmachine.
Then again, people line E...
Hi RL
I have used in two TBM in India and its really great, you can even have teh TBM OP to di...buy from them, this is a STANDALONE and working like a charm.
Leif S
Lockdown in MD India.
if you read the linked article, it says an Iranian company called Kayson builds tunnels at far places like Venezuela, Belarus, Cameroon, India. Can this be true?
Hi Peter,
actually, it can... It is an old NFM machine from the Thomson Line project in Singapore that was refurbished by Robbins for this drive in Mumbai.