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    • 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

      • Dave Anderson

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

        • 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.

          • 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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              One of the common mistakes is expecting people to succeed again and again and in every single case. Everyone stumbles once in a while.

              • Paolo Kerguel

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                Yes it is true that whenever an article has "Elon Musk" in it, the guy...ets the benefit of the doubt even for radical things like 10 times faster boring tunnel boring machine. Then again, people line E...

                • Paolo Kerguel

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                  pretty imressive. I heard that it hasn't been a smooth ride all along. I heard they had to change a lot of disc cutters along the way. Like I heard 20 disc cutter every single  day had to be replaced!

                  • Pedro M.

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                    I checked the website. Very intriguing. Web site says not only free to download but also fre...am not familiar with such products. I looked for definition of a tag, I think is is a single...

                    • 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.

                      • Quirin Poltinger

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                        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.