If Musk can get the permits for this sort of project in any reasonable time frame he's even more of a genius than we thought. I suspect, however, that the main

If Musk can get the permits for this sort of project in any reasonable time frame he's even more of a genius than we thought. I suspect, however, that the main objective for this plan is to get in with Trump and his apparatus. If Musk makes himself known as one of the president's prized elite job-making businessmen, it generates another layer of defense against the various attacks SpaceX and Tesla have been under recently.