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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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        ...n Musk has no experience in mechanical engineering yet alone in tunnel boring machines. You may hire some experien...nd get them tweak 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/  

            • Paolo Kerguel

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              ...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 machine. Then again, people line E...

              • 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.

                  • RL

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                    A (Data)Tag is the representation of a physical sensor on the machine in the software, e.g. a pressure sensor giving values in bar

                    • Santiago Morales

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                      The machine is Herrenknecht. But anybody know what Disc cutters they used? Also Herrenknecht?

                      • 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!