We placed this post in the green energy category because we believe anything that helps reduce emissions is a good thing. Although Elon Musk’s Boring Company has been off-radar for quite a while and we thought they might have moved on. You may recall the idea was to take grid-lock traffic off the streets and transport it by battery power on a railroad line underground instead.
Media Report on Musk’s Boring Company Progress
On 19 December, 2018 Elon Musk invited the select few to a prototype demonstration underground. He had contrived to create a one-mile-long tunnel to ‘transport cars at high speed around the city’.
Musk’s Boring Company may be inappropriately named in terms of disruptive thinking. This is because it envisages lowering modified electric cars from streets above down into tunnels. These vehicles could then travel at 150 miles per hour unfettered by traffic congestion. “The profound breakthrough is very simple,” Musk told reporters. “It’s the ability to turn a normal car into a passively stable vehicle by adding deployable rail tracking wheels.” These stabilizing wheels enable it to travel at high speed through a small tunnel, he added.
Watch the Press Conference As If You Were There
When You Want to Leave You Take the Next Off Ramp
Did we mention you could be sitting, possibly terrified in your car while robots take care of your safety? One journalist from the BBC commented, “It was almost a white knuckle ride. A bumpy two-minute journey followed in a modified Model X through a concrete tunnel with a blue neon light in the ceiling. Hardly boring, that seems.
“We reached a speed of 49mph, although cars will eventually travel at up to 150mph,” the intrepid reporter added. Apparently the bumpiness was down to problems with Elon Musk’s Boring Company’s paving machine. We came across a paper by Bjorn Lomborg of Copenhagen Consensus Center concerning the ‘rebound effect’ of what we do with carbon savings. This is because the green movement emphasizes the time and money-saving benefits of its ideas.
Bjorn wants to know what we are going to do with all these savings. He is concerned we are going to spend them on emitting even more carbon on something else. Are we going nowhere slowly with global warming, we wonder? Watch this space for more about Bjorn Lomborg’s ideas.
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