Techno Blender
Digitally Yours.
Browsing Tag

tunnels

As Israel Floods Gaza’s Tunnels with Seawater, Scientists Worry about Aquifer Contamination

Israel’s military has begun injecting “high-flow” seawater into Hamas-built tunnels beneath the Gaza Strip as part of its attempt to “neutralize terrorist infrastructures.”On 30 January, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that the plan to flood tunnels under the Gaza Strip, a strategy that has been the subject of rumours since December, is being implemented at a number of undisclosed locations. The IDF’s statement added that the move was a “significant engineering and technological breakthrough” and that locations…

What After Atal Setu? Marine Drive and Thane-Borivali Tunnels, ‘Airport Connector’ Planned for Mumbai

The PM had inaugurated the Rs 17,840 crore Atal Bihari Vajpayee Sewri-Nhava Sheva Atal Setu, also called the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link, on Friday. (@Dev_Fadnavis/X)While the Atal Setu, opened on Saturday, will cut the journey time between Mumbai and Navi Mumbai to 30 minutes, a number of other mobility projects are planned to ease congestion towards areas like Marine Drive, Thane and Worli. An 'airport connector' to link the Navi Mumbai International Airport with the Mumbai International Airport is also in the worksThe…

Tunnels are no longer as issue for Google Maps

“I’m losing you. You’re breaking up, I think I’m going through a tunnel!” We’re all used to using going through a tunnel as an excuse just to hang up on an annoying phone call. However, going through tunnels can actually be a nightmare if you’re using GPS navigation. Well, thanks to a new update, Google Maps will be able to better navigate tunnels. The accuracy of GPS navigation takes a massive hit once you head underground. Whatever system you’re using could completely lose track of you and give you very wonky…

What’s The Deal With Those Secret Chabad Tunnels In New York?

On Monday night, 10 men were arrested following a dispute with New York City Police Department officers at the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a synagogue catering to adherents of the insular Orthodox Jewish movement. The reason: structural engineers were attempting to fill in a system of mysterious secret tunnels, which had been illegally excavated underneath the building, and a group of young men turned out to protest. Though the story primarily focused on a small community of…

Deep Underground Tunnels Could Hold the Key to Habitability on Mars

Researchers at the University of Birmingham, in collaboration with the Boulby Underground Laboratory, have initiated the Bio-SPHERE project in deep tunnels in North Yorkshire, to study potential living and operational conditions on the Moon and Mars. This innovative project explores how scientific, medical procedures, and bioengineering operations would be executed in challenging, remote, and isolated environments similar to those on other planets.Deep beneath the surface of North Yorkshire, subterranean tunnels are…

Light-activated concrete scrubs air pollution out of traffic tunnels

Traffic is among the biggest sources of air pollution, but what if the very roads they drive on could help clear the air? Engineers in Korea have now demonstrated that photocatalytic concrete can help reduce pollution in tunnels.While we need to transition to greener vehicles as soon as possible, it’s still going to take a few decades. In the meantime, finding other ways to slurp up that air pollution is important, so why not turn to the most common building material in the world to help? In recent years scientists have…

A Subterranean Creature Feature Gets Trapped in the Streaming Tunnels

via mm2 Film Distribution Creature features are always guaranteed to do a turn on streaming, regardless of quality. In the last few weeks alone we’ve seen both some of the best and worst the subgenre has had to offer making a splash on-demand, with Circle Line the latest to scratch and claw its way to success on the small screen. Per FlixPatrol, the subterranean Singaporean terror has been causing quite the stir on Netflix, with director JD Chua’s exercise in underground insanity inching its way towards the…

Construction Work on Rishikesh-Karnprayag Rail Line Tunnels Still On

Last Updated: February 23, 2023, 17:34 ISTThe estimated cost of the project is Rs 16,200 crore, up from the initial estimate of Rs 4,000 crore made six years ago.The Ministry of Railways said that the project has made 33% progress. On the other hand, 83 km of tunnels are already constructed. Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the ambitious Rishikesh-Karnprayag Rail Line Project with 17 tunnels covering 125 kilometres. According to News18 Hindi, the construction of tunnels on the Rishikesh-Karnprayag Rail line is…

Tesla vehicles moved almost 100,000 people inside Boring Company tunnels at CES

Tesla vehicles moved almost 100,000 people inside the Boring Company tunnels under Las Vegas in only a few days during CES last week. The Las Vegas Convention Center Loop is The Boring Company’s first full-scale loop project currently in commercial use. Elon Musk’s tunneling start-up completed the $50 million project in just over a year. A Boring Company Loop system consists of tunnels in which Tesla electric vehicles travel at high speeds between stations to transport people within a…

How to solve God of War Ragnarok’s Myrkr Tunnels Water Wheel Puzzle – Destructoid

A step by step guide God of War Ragnarok is even bigger than its predecessor, which means there are even more quests, hunts, and puzzles than ever before. There’s a series of recurring puzzles in the game that involve finding the solution with a water wheel, and of those prominent puzzles is found during one of the main quests known as Forging Destiny. The aim of this quest is to secure Kratos’ third and final weapon, the Draupnir Spear, and the first step of the mission is to simply find a path to the surface out of…