Florence’s Futile Burrowing...

Florence’s Futile Burrowing

https://newcatallaxy.blog/2024/06/15/florences-futile-burrowing/

I see that the Snowy 2.0 giant boring machine Florence, weighing 2400 tonnes and measuring 143 metres in length and 11 metres in diameter, is stuck again.
It was stuck in soft ground between October 2022 and December 2023.

It is now stuck in hard ground. Goldilocks-like, the machine only thrives in ground which is just right.

It hasn’t yet tunnelled one kilometre in its fifteen-kilometre journey through the Snowy Mountains from the underground power station to the upper reservoir at Tantangara.
Let’s hope that the next fourteen kilometres are neither too soft nor too hard.

As reported in the Times, Florence has advanced at only 4.5 centimetres an hour.
I can’t vouch for it, but apparently this is 22-times slower than a snail.
Okay then, how long at that rate will it take to complete the fifteen kilometres? While acknowledging, à la investment spruikers, that past performance might not be a reliable guide to the future, I did the sum.
Rounded, it is 36 years. That takes us to 2060. Blast, beyond the net-zero horizon.

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