Tunnel

Researchers at EPFL have crunched the numbers on heat transfer in the air of train tunnels, and outlined a geothermal heat recovery system that could potentially supply heating and cooling to thousands of nearby homes.

A Las Vegas tourism authority has signed off on a contract worth almost US$50 million that will see The Boring Company design and construct a set of tunnels beneath the city's new convention center, which guests will travel aboard self-driving electric vehicles. ​

After earning a recommendation for the project from a Las Vegas’ tourism authority last week, The Boring Company has today received the final tick of approval to move ahead with a transport loop beneath the city’s convention center.

​The Las Vegas Convention Center is undergoing a renovation, and as part of this its tourism authority wants The Boring Company to burrow a high-speed transport loop beneath the surface in time for CES 2021.

​The Boring Company has moved rather swiftly since CEO Elon Musk first floated the idea of overcoming LA’s notorious traffic woes by digging underneath them. Two years after he publicly raised the concept, the startup has now snipped the ribbon on its first tunnel.

The Boring Company is edging closer to the unveiling of its very first tunnel, albeit a little behind schedule. The tunnel construction outfit announced today that it has pushed back the official opening event one week to December 18.

The Boring Company's very first demonstration tunnel is apparently nearing completion, with CEO Elon Musk declaring on Twitter that it will open its doors on December 10, with free rides for the public to kick off the following day. ​

​​The Boring Company was conceived as a solution to LA’s traffic woes, and the first people to benefit from its forward-thinking tunnel networks may be the city’s sports fans. The company today announced a proposed transport link between the LA Metro and Dodger Stadium.

​The Boring Company has made some pretty impressive strides in its relatively short existence. It is now adding the finishing touches to its first burrow, a test track running beneath the city of Los Angeles.

​The Boring Company has come up with some interesting ways to finance its tunneling aspirations. A newly announced piece of merch to be offered by the firm will be more closely tied to its digging ventures, fashioning the rock it pulls from the Earth into Lego-like bricks for construction.

​​The Boring Company was dreamt up by serial entrepreneur Elon Musk as a way of solving traffic woes, and the notoriously choked up highways of LA are among its very first targets. With a proof-of-concept tube already underway, The Boring Company has now expanded on its plans for the City of Angels.

Building a tunnel is a traditionally painstaking process that moves along at glacial pace, but The Boring Company believes it can get things done a whole lot quicker. And if an image shared by CEO Elon Musk over the week is anything to go by, it is wasting little time getting started.