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    • Coert Klomp

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      As usual, New Civil Engineer is has a more sober header than daily newspapers. Progress revealed on HS2 tunnel boring machines https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/progress-revealed-on-hs2-tunnel-boring-machines-27-05-2020/  

      • Dave Anderson

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        ...lon Musk has no experience in mechanical engineering yet alone in tunnel boring machines. You may hire some experien...and get them tweak this and that on a Lovat TBM. But inventing a tunnel boring machine 10 times faster than st...

        • Paolo Kerguel

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          Elon Musk was not a rocket scientist either. I am sure those rockets are more complicated than tunnel boring machines.

          • Alan Limbach

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            Donnie the Tunnel Boring Machine, behind some people. https://www.trenchlessinternational.com/2019/12/17/boring-begins-on-coxwell-bypass-tunnel/ #Coxwell

            • Gianluca Gallota

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              Tunnel Widening Case *****   #Palmieri Tunnel Widening Machines in operation - #Montedomini Tunnel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGrXSAIAfBE #Italia  

              • Gianluca Gallota

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                Hmmm, in Glasgow they need to widen metro tunnels. They need in Glasgow #Palmieri Tunnel Widening Machines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNPCcCxxQt4

                • Dave Anderson

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                  ' thanks to the Japanese engineers' contributions to tunnel boring machine 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.

                  • Paolo Kerguel

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                    Yes it is true that whenever an article has "Elon Musk" in it, the guy gets the benefit of the doubt even for radical things like 10 times faster boring tunnel boring m...

                    • Lutz Genscher

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                      Looking at the meeting point on the drawing, it looks like the English did the most of the boring and the French just waited!

                      • RL

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                        3000 Tags is not too little, only very big machines or the monitoring of more than the TBM (belt conveyor, power generator etc.) will normally break the barrier of 3000 data tags. And yes, y...