Elon Musk’s Boring Company has been releasing side products mostly unrelated to the company’s main purpose, like hats and flamethrowers.The latest product has more to do with boring tunnels since they plan on selling and/or giving away bricks made from dirt dug in the company tunnels.The Boring Company is now showing a glimpse at how the bricks are being produced.They estimate that the cost of moving the dirt can represent up to 15% of the total cost of a tunnel, which is why they want to turn the dirt into a product itself.Musk claimed that the bricks are more solid than cinderblocks and he suggested that the company could sell them for just 10 cents in order to get rid of the dirt.They reportedly developed a sophisticated production process in Hawthorne to produce the bricks.Today, the company released this video of these LEGO-like bricks being made by a machine:Musk said that the blocks could be used to make buildings, but they also want to make kits for giant known structures.
East Coast - Washington D.C. to Baltimore Loop . Elon Musk’s Boring Company announced on Twitter that its third-generation boring machine, which is supposed to have had its ability greatly improved to dig tunnels fast and cheap, is now working.The Boring Company’s mission is to reduce traffic in metropolitan areas by improving the technology of boring tunnels and developing a fully electric and autonomous transport system that works well inside those tunnels.For its first test tunnel in Los Angeles, the company basically bought an existing boring machine, which it named Godot, in order to learn more about the process of digging tunnels.After completing the mile-long test tunnel, the Boring Company bought a second machine and modified it. Elon Musk’s Boring Company announced on Twitter that its third-generation boring machine, which is supposed to have had its ability greatly improved to … He gave examples from ancient Egypt, like the pyramids, Sphinx, and the temple of Horus.They released images of some structures and a wall built with the bricks:The technology might become useful quite soon since the amount of dirt produced by the Boring Company is going to increase a lot as they continue working on the LA tunnels and after Along with the bricks today, the Boring Company also released a video of a cool modification they did to the test tunnel in LA:We are going to take a look later this month when we visit the Boring Company. ChargePoint Home WiFi Enabled Electric Vehicle (EV) Charger Learn more. Status: In environmental review and permitting. ChargePoint Home WiFi Enabled Electric Vehicle (EV) Charger The Boring Company is now showing a … The latest product has more to do with boring tunnels since they plan on selling and/or giving away bricks made from dirt dug in the company tunnels. This second-generation boring machine is called “Line-Storm.”At a launch event in December 2018, CEO Elon Musk said thatFor that machine, they are working to increase the power of the machine by a factor 3, modify the cutter design, and add an automated segment erection system.Musk said existing tunnel boring companies spend only about 10 minutes mining per hour, as the rest is spent installing the reinforcement and deploying all the logistics behind: power, dirt removal, etc.They see a potential 15x improvement in the speed of boring versus the next-best boring technology by engineering a system that automatically takes care of that at the same time as they dig.At the time, Musk said that the new system would be ready “relatively soon.”Now just over a year later, the Boring Company has shared an image of a boring machine with the caption “Prufrock is alive”:It presumably means that the new boring machine is completed, and it even looks like it is being deployed, though they didn’t confirm the location.To me, it looks like the Las Vegas project was more about deploying a Loop system than boring super-fast and efficiently.It’s going to be a fairly small loop system, and it will give the Boring Company the opportunity to demonstrate its concept on a small scale.But while that was the focus of the project, I am glad that they are also independently working on their tunnel-boring technology, which is required to reduce the cost of tunnels and achieve the company’s mission to reduce traffic.It will be interesting to see what kind of speed the Boring Company can achieve with Prufrock.Fred is the Editor in Chief and Main Writer at Electrek.You can send tips on Twitter (DMs open) or via email: fred@9to5mac.comThrough Zalkon.com, you can check out Fred’s portfolio and get monthly green stock investment ideas.The Big Tesla Hack: How a hacker gained fleet controlFirst ride on the 45 mph NIU NQiGT Pro electric scooterYou’re reading Electrek— experts who break news about