Boring Company Could Lower Cost of Europe’s Next Generation Particle Colliders

The Civil Engineering for the proposed next-generation particle collider is 5 billion euros. Above: Cross section of an FCC-hh arc. The grey equipment on the left side of the tunnel represents the cryogenic distribution line. A 16 T superconducting magnet can be seen in the middle, mounted on a red support element. Another superconducting magnet …

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Boring Company Offers to Dig 30 Mile Tunnel Through Mountains in Australia

Elon Musk offered New South Wales parliament member Jeremy Buckingham a tunnel underneath the Blue Mountains to link Sydney to the West. Previously Elon Musk used twitter to offer Australia battery storage and that utility-scale storage was built. The biggest lithium-ion battery farm in the world was built in South Australia in 2017. This helped …

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Musk Drops Planned LA Sepulveda Tunnel Because of Environmental Lawsuit

Elon Musk’s tunneling company has dropped its plans to dig beneath Sepulveda Boulevard on the Westside because of an environmental lawsuit. Musk had wanted to dig a 2.7-mile tunnel planned along Sepulveda Boulevard on L.A.’s Westside. The Boring Company has posted images online showing a possible network of tunnel routes across L.A., with proposed stations …

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Boring Company will make tunnels for sewers and cheap bricks for housing

Elon said the Boring Co. is also going to do tunneling for water transport, sewage, electrical. The Boring Co.’s first test project opens next month in Hawthorne, a Los Angeles suburb. In a few years, Boring Company tunnels could take passengers to L.A.’s Dodger Stadium via underground transit pods and from downtown Chicago to O’Hare …

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Boring Machine reaches other side of LA tunnel

Elon Musk announced that the Boring Company completed the LA/Hawthorne tunnel. The tunneling machine broke through to the other side. pic.twitter.com/TQhb9hQRxQ — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 17, 2018 Congratulations @BoringCompany on completing the LA/Hawthorne tunnel! Cutting edge technology! pic.twitter.com/80WbSQekCQ — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 17, 2018 After 18-mile Chicago downtown to airport tunnel is done …

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Elon Musk’s tunneling company could become his most valuable

Elon Musk and the Boring Company has completed most of phase 1 of a 2.7-mile proof-of-process tunnel through Los Angeles. The first section of the Hawthorne tunnel, including O’Leary Station, will be revealed by December 10, 2018. Tunnels projects currently cost as much as $1 billion per mile. Elon Musk wants to make a massive …

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Boring Company to have $16B value after Chicago Airport tunnel completes

Boring Company will show a two-mile tunnel in LA in December and has started work on an 18 mile tunnel in Chicago from downtown to the airport. Successfully completing the airport tunnel will make the tunneling company worth as much as $16 billion. This valuation will be before any full speed hyperloop implementation. In June …

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Elon Musk Boring Company permitted to dig part of Hyperloop tunnel in DC

Elon Musk’s Boring Company has been given an early, and vague, building permit to begin some extremely preliminary work on a section of an underground Hyperloop tunnel in DC. DC officials have not committed to the project long-term yet. DC Department of Transportation is examining what kinds of further permissions the Boring Company would need …

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Infrastructure plan could have $200 billion in projects and de-regulation that could clear the way for Hyperloops

Within the next two weeks, the White House could unveil an infrastructure proposal. It is believed to have at least $200 billion in infrastructure projects over the next decade and would incentivize an additional $800 billion in state and local funding. Trump predicted the proposal would easily garner bipartisan support. The infrastructure plan could also …

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Hyperloop One raises $50 million from Dubai and Russian funders

Virgin Hyperloop One, a Los Angeles company, announced it has raised $50 million from foreign venture capital investors and made Richard Branson the chairman of its board of directors. The new round of funding came from Dubai’s DP World and Russia’s Caspian Venture Capital. Axios, which first reported the story, called the money a lifeline …

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