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Elon Musk has released an image showing a tunnel under Hawthorne, California, near SpaceX's headquarters:
Musk's LA tunnel is a pilot project designed to test the feasibility of his plan to dig tunnels at a lower cost and more efficiently than current tunnel boring companies operate, with the eventual aim of supplying cities and regions with underground tunnel networks that can transport goods and services while avoiding surface obstacles and traffic.
The Boring Co. is still a long way from achieving the grand vision of constructing inter-city underground Hyperloop tubes for high-speed travel, but it's making rapid progress on its initial test digging and tunnel construction, which should go some way to proving to its detractors that this is more than just a pipe dream.
Also at Engadget and The Verge.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday October 31 2017, @10:58AM (2 children)
Personally, I'd be thinking about artificial islands. Being able to sell prime beachfront property as a sideline would really help bring down the cost of the tunnelling.
The artificial islands could also be designed as part of wave / solar energy projects, and/ or desalination farms.
Also, enter into deals with local governments:
If I can replace that congested 3-mile stretch of winding road with a wider, straighter, safer, better road in a tunnel, you have to give me the land that the old 3 miles of road is built on.
The old road can then be dug up (maybe replaced by a small, single lane service road) and sold for housing, commercial development, parkland, whatever.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday October 31 2017, @01:05PM (1 child)
They could sell the fill as levee material. Florida is going to need that.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @02:37PM
yeah. if the water levels are rising, then raising the grade of the ground in strategic locations can help reduce flooding problems (or more strategically, flood someone else worse. if they cant gerrymander the district, then make it so only poor people that do not matter can afford to live there!)