RE:RE:Speculation - Tunneling Company is ArcBytCndnBacon wrote: Reading through the patent, this is going to be HUGE! The torches are going to be seriously expensive as well, capabillity of running over 1MW, which we know is around $3.5m per torch. The main RBR seems to have 72 torches, 2nd Mother Rig had at least as many, and 2rd Father rig, which increases tunnel diameter over 10M has more again!!! The purpose of these machines lends to the fact they will need quite a few of them in operation, and PYR being involved in ALL aspects of its design, means there will be monetary compensation beyond just the torch sales and service.....just wow
Maybe expensive torches but the bigger picture according to the patent is this unit runs circles (no pun) around the current tunneling technology (10 to 55 times faster) at lower overall cost, lower CO2, can use any number of alternative energy to power it, it melts the rock sealing the hole as it goes, it's autonomous (boldly go where no one has gone before?)...
Wow is a bit of an understatement!