• TomSelleck@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Open pit is much more common for this type of equipment and it’s basically a reverse mountain. Still might be enough regenerative braking from just the weight of the truck though.

    • groet@feddit.org
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      1 month ago

      An open pit at an elevation of 1.5km still means the bottom of the pit could be 1km higher than the place the ore is processed at