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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by jcheng on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:49PM (#23471320)
Look at the size of those excavators--the bulldozer in the lower left of the image looks like a forgotten child's toy by comparison! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garzweiler_surface_mine#/media...
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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by Someone on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @08:32PM (#23472594)
What’s more, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket-wheel_excavator has the same photo, and says “Note the 90-ton CAT front loader at lower left for size comparison”

⇒ chances are a normal-sized bulldozer is half the height of that one.

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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by dmoy on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @07:39PM (#23472210)
That is bagger288, it weighs over 10Gg and it's like 100m tall or something
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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by TwoHeadedBeast on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @07:45PM (#23472252)
I love the metric system and all that, but perhaps 10,000 tonnes might be a better way of expressing the mass of the digger.
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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by eeh on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @08:36PM (#23472614)
Yes. Also, tonne is accepted for use in SI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#...
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