Because it was the answer to their question.

Great to see no one is reading the article again. This is a terrific business model. Pay per mile/kilometer is really smart. The upfront costs of a 400k bus are untenable for most markets or municipal budgets.

This way they see a return sooner and allow for roll out over time. Securing the market while assuming much more of the risk. While charging the same cost per mile as a diesel bus they are arbitraging the difference with the more affordable cost per mile of an electric bus.

A lot of the regulatory capture and verticals are BYD or Chinese. Even the Nairobi-Mombassa Railway is majority chinese rolling stock.

However this is perfect for buses. That cost being split by 50 riders at a time or exported. Kenya would be one of the cheapest places to import from with a weaker currency.

It's in Africa so it must be a" third world country". I'm guessing someone using that boomer language has never seen Nairobi. No one is taking those electric buses on Safari.

Well sure, but pressurized pipe can be tested with hydrostatic testing at fire hydrants. Smoke testing too if they're old school. If they are chasing down a leak, there is a good chance that they will just shut off water for a day over a city block or housing development while they cam the entire system.

Not to be contrary, but I'm sure that what ever instrumentation would be called for to cam the pipe would be the same to have one of these little robots in. If they were faster then tethered robots or you could let a swarm run through pipes, that might be the good cost/benefit.

I would like to see those tiny gimbled drones that are 3" that could fly through 4" pipe.

Sorry to be the stop-having-fun-guy but I'm a utility inspector.

We already have these. Pipe snakes and camera rovers that are typically tethered. Manhole to manhole isn't enough distance to really warrant a wireless solution. Especially when you may have to yank it back out when it gets stuck.

They don't really need to be miniaturized more than they are. The only real bottleneck (that puns was for me) is the labor cost. You don't really eliminate that with a more high tech solution. You're really just making IT guys crawl under manholes instead.

The best way to get ahead of this problem is better code enforcement ans spending money on maintenance that has largely been ignored. However, like with all government spending on infrastructure that doesn't get anyone re-elected.

Neat

I don't think you've met the most ardent. Plenty I have spoken with don't beleive in third party arbitration, full stop.

It is the centennial of his discovery though. Sure the forgotten son of Akenaten was all but lost to history until his discovery. He is the most famous pharaoh in the last century's history.

We don't need to be unnecessarily pedantic. Anyone being generous in understanding, gets it.

Any time you go to a museum and learn something from the artifacts, you yourself are doing archeology.

I think we would all agree that the cool roman mosaics and other art buried under long forgotten farm houses need to be excavated.

Most famous in our time, not his.

Tut was initially so famous that his traveling exhibit gave birth to the "block buster" museum exhibit. His artifacts have to this day been seen more than any other by a looooong shot compared to other pharaohs.

Maybe the Wright Flyer in the Smithsonain Air and Space museum has seen more vistors in the same amount of time.

Because that isn't what archeology is for.

Archeology is the study of past human behavior through artifacts. If we leave those artifacts including anthropological ones where they are we can't study them. We can't learn from them and us.

That doesn't mean you can't put it all back when everything is recorded. However, that's your answer.