Donnie the TunnelBoringMachine, behind some people.
https://www.trenchlessinternational.com/2019/12/17/boring-begins-on-coxwell-bypass-tunnel/
#Coxwell
This prufrock thing pure vaporware. Elon Musk has no experience in mechanical engineering yet alone in tunnelboringmachines. You may hire some experien...this and that on a Lovat TBM. But inventing a tunnelboringmachine...
Maybe the disc cutters were not Herrenknecht. You know how it works. First x meters you use disc cutters of the TBM manufacturer. So maybe first x meter they used Herrenknecht disc cutters and then switched to an after...
' thanks to the Japanese engineers' contributions to tunnelboringmachine 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.
As usual, New Civil Engineer is has a more sober header than daily newspapers.
Progress revealed on HS2 tunnelboringmachines
https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/progress-revealed-on-hs2-tunnel-boring-machines-27-05-2020/
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 boringtunnelboringmachine...
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!