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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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        This prufrock thing pure vaporware. Elon Musk has no ex...perience in mechanical engineering yet alone in tunnel boring machines. You may hire some experien...k this and that on a Lovat TBM. But inventing a tunnel boring machine 10 times faster than st...

        • 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.

          • Dave Anderson

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            In this country, we have The Robbins Company which has virtually invented the TBM tunneling. I don't know why we have to import TBM from Germany and Japan for our projects? What was the last time Germans and Japanese imported a Robbins?

            • Paolo Kerguel

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              Indeed Robbins invented the TBM. And then stopped right there. What innovation worth mentioning did Robbins...

              • Dave Anderson

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                Most likely NFM refurbished an old Robbins TBM and rechristened it as Robbins-NFM.

                • 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.

                  • Ray M. Morgan

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                    Virgin boss Richard Branson is endorsing murderer of a journalist by Saudi Arabia ruler Mohammad Bin Salman, by sending virgin hyperloop one ceo to the conference. Principled all right...  

                    • Kris Lubcek

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                      I still feel bad that Robbins is now a Chinese company...