Sentences with phrase «system of tunnels»

Under the guise of research, DOE has built a full - scale system of tunnels into the mountain at a cost of over $ 5 billion.

The operation got a major boost in 2004 when, to compensate for the mountain's thin air, the company began incorporating a system of tunnels and bunkers into its composting.

«We targeted a system of tunnels and caves that ISIS fighters used to move around freely, making it easier for them to target US military advisers and Afghan forces in the area,» the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, said at a press briefing.

Not exact matches

Boring's first tunnel system would have «thousands of small stations the size of a single parking space» that «blend seamlessly into the fabric of a city,» Musk tweeted.

The car elevator is just the latest mini-step towards Musk's vision of underground tunnels that could be used for cars or a futuristic transport system called hyperloop that theoretically would send people and packages, housed inside reduced - pressure tubes, long distances at super speeds.

Ultimately, Musk wants to build a network of underground tunnels that could be used for cars or a futuristic transport system called hyperloop that theoretically would send people and packages, housed inside reduced - pressure tubes, long distances at super speeds.

The tunnel would support a Hyperloop, a high - speed transit system that's still in the early stages of testing.

Musk first showed a visualization of how the tunnel system could work in an April TED Talk.

Musk, the chief executive of electric car maker Tesla Inc (tsla) and rocket company SpaceX (spacex), recently started the Boring Company to build transport tunnels for the system, which he says would be far faster than current high - speed trains and use electromagnetic propulsion.

Dampier Salt, Australia's largest manufacturer and exporter of salt, recently completed a $ 3 million project to prevent corrosion for the next 25 years of a tunnel and conveyor system at Mistaken Island, near Dampier.

Musk proposed in 2013 that a hyperloop system, which is similar to a magnetic levitation (maglev) train but runs through a low - resistance tunnel with much of its air removed, would cost $ 11.5 m (# 9.4 m) per mile to build.

Most companies working on hyperloop systems are currently focused on the actual low - pressure tunnel and propulsion sub-systems and not the interior of the passenger pods.

Hyperloop One was founded in 2014 and was one of two original companies attempting to fulfill Musk's vision for a tunnel - based transportation system — the other is Hyperloop Transportation Technologies.

The tunneling startup currently stands as one of two final bidders for the proposed, high - profile downtown Chicago - O'Hare transportation system.

The Boring Company was founded by Elon Musk almost as a result of Twitter banter with his followers, with the billionaire entrepreneur stating that an underground tunnel system is key to solving traffic problems.

A committee of the Los Angeles City Council has approved an environmental review exemption for a tunnel that Elon Musk wants to dig to test a novel underground transportation system.

For example, the cost of setting up a full - service state of the art pressure washing cum cleaning facility which has the following features: a seventy foot fully automatic tunnel; 3 high pressure wand self - service bays; 5 vacuum stations complete with fragrance and carpet shampoo dispensing machines, Insulator washers with a pump pressure of about 1000 psi and a nozzle pressure between 500 and 750 psi, centrifugal water pump, stainless steel water storage tank, high - pressure water hose, high - pressure dead - man type water wash gun, electrical grounds for the wash gun and washing system and chemical supplies for cleaning are same especially when bench — marked against the US Dollars.

Although Islam is not a religion in the conventional sense --(it's a System of life)-- like other religions, it has suffered from a terrible and tragic dichotomy at the hands of the extremist, orthodox, closed - minded and tunnel - vision priesthood.

About 300 homeless people are living in the tunnels and drain system underneath Las Vegas, surviving off of the excess and garbage created by those above ground.

I have seen changes in the world at my age, it's really true to call for a change but sometimes most changes come out of pain and doesn't bring bring intended results at the end of the tunnel, some most changes in different clubs have brought a quargmire situation of try and error in the managerial system.

If the bright colored contraptions are too harsh for your environment, opt for the Niteangle Natural Living Tunnel System that uses a variety of woods to create a calming playspace.

The tunnels are 50 km long, with an undersea section of 39 km, making it the longest undersea tunnel system in the world.

«It's a spectacular multi-million dollar municipal project commissioned by the Governor of New York, of which we're supplying US$ 65M in products and systems for the nine bridges and four tunnels surrounding the city.»

His idea of modernizing the subway system was adding Wi - Fi and digital displays — not fixing the 1930s - era signal system or the hundred - year - old tunnels.

In recent days Governor Andrew Cuomo has publicly engaged two of the massive transportation agencies he controls on hot button topics, demanding in an open letter that the MTA act to address a recent spike in sexual assaults reported as occurring on the New York City subway system and demanding answers from the Port Authority on a report that NYPD officials ensnared in a corruption investigation arranged for a special escort, with a lane closure, through the Lincoln Tunnel.

He ignored questions from reporters about why he wouldn't address the safety of the subway system or that hundreds of New Yorkers had walked through tunnels — instead joking and laughing with police officers who were stationed outside the event.

This plan will not only transform New York's bridges and tunnels into the transportation system of tomorrow, but it will create good - paying jobs for thousands of New Yorkers.

It injured dozens of passengers, brought huge chunks of the subway system to a standstill and prompted hundreds of riders to take their chances walking through subway tunnels to escape stuck trains.

$ 70 mm for New 116th Precinct, $ 292 mm for Queensboro Bridge, $ 357 mm for Water Tunnel No. 3, $ 778 mm for Southeast Queens Sewer System QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following regarding Mayor Bill de Blasio's FY 2017 Executive Budget, which includes $ 70 million for the creation of a new NYPD 116th Precinct, $ 292 million to -LSB-...]

Airports, bridges, tunnels and mass transit systems in New York State are the focus of stepped - up security, on order from Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Airports, bridges, tunnels and mass transit systems in New York State are the focus of stepped - up security,

And we have asked My Noble Friend Lord West to oversee over this summer a further overview of how best we protect crowded places and our buildings and national infrastructure - roads, railways, tunnels, bridges, water systems and utilities.

He also said that he would immediately move to put parts of the city's third water tunnel into use in Brooklyn and Queens, budgeting $ 21 million to disinfect those portions of the tunnel, which he said would be filled with drinkable water as a backup to the existing system.

Acting out of an «abundance of caution,» the governor announced higher security measures at high - profile locations like airports, bridges, tunnels and mass transit systems after the attack.

Still to come are repairs to the signal system, and taking two of four East River tunnels out of service for about one year each to fix damage caused by 2012 saltwater flooding in superstorm Sandy.

The tunnel, along with other elements of the city's water system are nearer the top of the Spring political agenda.

Leading Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer have warned that this proposal would be insufficient for large - scale projects, and could lead to the privatization of bridges, roads, tunnels and transit systems.

Cuomo told the MTA to hold a «Genius Award» contest to find the best ideas on how to overcome the seemingly unfixable subway problems of the ancient signal system, the aging fleet of cars, and the lack of cellular and wi - fi connections on trains and in tunnels.

Joe Gugliero, the director of tolling systems at the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, said that those fears have been proven unfounded, in part because of new penalties that were put in place to discourage scofflaws.

Joe Gugliero, the director of tolling systems at the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, has been working on implementing open - road tolling for years.

Open - road, cashless collection systems have eliminated toll booths at many of New York City's bridges and tunnels, including the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge.

The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has a solution in the form of a giant inflatable plug that will seal off subway tunnels and stop water from flowing throughout the subway system into stations and other subway lines.

«This research demonstrates our grasp of tunneling on a molecular system that is of vital importance to the understanding of atmospheric chemistry,» said Klippenstein, a distinguished fellow in Argonne's Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division who performed the theoretical calculations.

In theoretical calculations of tunneling in very simple systems, Smirnova and colleagues found no evidence of tunneling time.

While never built, a larger planned camp based on the concept of Camp Century would have housed a 4,000 - kilometer long tunnel system underneath the ice, capable of deploying up to 600 nuclear missiles.

Heavy downpours can overwhelm New York's antiquated 19th - century sewer systems, the miles of pipes and tunnels that carry away wastewater and, when overtaxed, divert billions of gallons of raw sewage and contaminated urban runoff into the rivers, lakes and the ocean.

The storm surge breached New York City's hundred - year - old sea walls and flooded the underground network of subway tunnels — the most destructive event in the subway system's 108 - year history, according to Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Joseph Lhota.

Back in the lab, using a wind tunnel and computer - controlled odor - stimulus system, the moths in free flight were tested to see just how finely they could discern different frequencies of Sacred Datura odor as well as mixes of background odors from creosote bushes.

The geometrical structures and hydrogen - bond tunneling pathways of the water trimer, tetramer, pentamer, and hexamer systems have recently been characterized with global analysis of potential surfaces, diffusion Monte Carlo calculations, and far - infrared laser vibration - rotation tunneling spectroscopy.

The portable system, created by David Bowen of Acentech in Cambridge, Massachusetts, consists of two microphones placed at the entrance of a cave or tunnel, which are hooked up to a laptop loaded with software designed to decode acoustic signals.