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.
' 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.
Donnie the Tunnel Boring Machine, behind some people.
https://www.trenchlessinternational.com/2019/12/17/boring-begins-on-coxwell-bypass-tunnel/
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...has no experience in mechanical engineering yet alone in tunnel boring machines. You may hire some experienc...them tweak this and that on a Lovat TBM. But inventing a tunnel boring machine 10 times faster than standard...
...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 machine.
Then again, people line E...