Is anyone able to remember the exploits in which Elon Musk has put his hand?
It's an enormous amount of initiatives that span vast fields of knowledge: Elon Musk is co-founder of Paypal, creator and CEO of SpaceX, driving Tesla Motors, president of SolarCity and "putative father" of Hyperloop, the revolutionary "pneumatic" transport system that could lead us to travel in capsules at a speed of over 1000 kilometers per hour, currently being tested on a small stretch in Nevada.
Elon Musk is an eclectic and loves to range in various fields. To solve a problem, it tends to find solutions to all the collateral problems that prevent its realization. One for all? Since a faster train is needed, Musk begins to understand how to redesign the tunnels.
This is why I am not surprised to have seen the publication of a photo of the "tunnel machine" that Musk is building. Last week he said he "doesn't know exactly what he's doing yet" but that he could increase the speed of building a tunnel five to 5 times. In spades (a lot in spans :) ) the Gran Sasso in just over a year and a half.
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- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 4 February 2017
The objective is to build tunnels more simply and quickly to make them a more widely used tool, decongest urban areas (also reducing polluting emissions) and bring transport to unsuspected places. And then tomorrow, and then the day after, a rapid and effective system for building tunnels could help to better develop some settlements in cold and inhospitable environments: if you are thinking of some red planet, you are right.
At present it seems that Musk is testing this machine for the construction of underground parking in the Space X complexes, but the photo of a tunnel with a diameter of 8 meters and about 3km long under DC has also appeared.
