{"id":10576,"date":"2023-02-22T08:39:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T08:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=10576"},"modified":"2023-02-22T08:39:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T08:39:50","slug":"the-boring-company-busy-with-apparent-new-test-tunnel-in-bastrop-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=10576","title":{"rendered":"The Boring Company Busy with Apparent New Test Tunnel in Bastrop Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aerial footage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boringcompany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Boring Company<\/a>\u2019s site in Bastrop, Texas, has revealed that the tunnelling startup is busy with what seems to be a new test tunnel. A short video of the site indicates that The Boring Company\u2019s tunnelling technology is moving gradually.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like other Elon Musk-related efforts, The Boring Company has dreams that lie far beyond its current operations. Musk has supported the tunnelling startup\u2019s innovations as a possible way to solve traffic and urban congestion. Avid followers of Musk\u2019s enterprises also suppose that The Boring Company\u2019s technology may be employed as part of SpaceX\u2019s Mars colonization plans. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, a fundamental part of The Boring Company\u2019s technology is Prufrock. Prufrock is an all-electric TBM designed to revolutionize tunnel boring, operating far faster than conventional tunnel boring machines in the market. As reported by The Boring Company on its official website (https:\/\/www.boringcompany.com\/prufrock), \u201cPrufrock\u2019s medium-term goal is to exceed 1\/10 of human walking speed, which is 7 miles per day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A video published by Chap Ambrose, who presently rooms beside The Boring Company\u2019s Bastrop site, shows that the testing of Prufrock is well underway. Although Ambrose only shared a short drone flyover of the site, one could see a steady stream of dirt coming out of a conveyor system. Derived from the video, it appeared that Prufrock was busy flexing its digging muscles when the video was taken. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambrose remarked that the tunnel being bored in his video is the second test tunnel that The Boring Company has made in its Bastrop site. This may very well be true, regarding that in October 2022, Elon Musk published a video of Prufrock \u201cporpoising\u201d from the ground. At the time, the TBM might have just finished its first tunnel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Boring Company may not attract the same amount of news coverage as Elon Musk\u2019s other firms, but its work is truly exciting nevertheless. So far, The Boring Company is busy constructing the Vegas Loop, an underground public transportation system in Las Vegas, Nevada. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aerial footage of The Boring Company\u2019s site in Bastrop, Texas, has revealed that the tunnelling startup is busy with what seems to be a new test tunnel. A short video of the site indicates that The Boring Company\u2019s tunnelling technology is moving gradually. Like other Elon Musk-related efforts, The Boring Company has dreams that lie far beyond its current operations. Musk has supported the tunnelling startup\u2019s innovations as a possible way to solve traffic and urban congestion. Avid followers of Musk\u2019s enterprises also suppose that The Boring Company\u2019s technology may be employed as part of SpaceX\u2019s Mars colonization plans. 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