Musk bought a second drilling machine and decided to "dig" to Washington
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The Project is Elon musk The Boring Company continues to deepen and spread. This time she had to splurge for a few million dollars to buy a second drilling machine and start to dig a tunnel between Washington and Baltimore.
The Website Electrek that Musk is not just going to use this rig, but planning to modify them. Now a hefty machine for tunnel lining weighs 1200 tons, its diameter is eight meters, and length — 120 metres. At such dimensions, it is able to lay up to a hundred meters of tunnel in a week, but this, according to the head of the company, is not enough. So Musk has stated that he wants to finalize both cars, increasing their performance more than three times — so, in his opinion, the project will be able to reach a new level. The tunnels will be routed faster, and the payback period of the equipment costs will be reduced.
The Idea is to get rid of the traffic through the tunnels came to mind of the entrepreneur at the end of last year, and in the spring his company started to dig the first test tunnels and to sign contracts on their strip with the local authorities. For several months, experts developed the concept of tunnels, in which over a certain distance will the lifts and trolleys. The latter will quickly deliver the cars to the destination without traffic jams and accidents.
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