3 ms·
There is an extra claim that clarifies the contradiction: Elon Musk is trying to achieve that 10x reduction reducing the tunnel diameter. The author argues this
by yiyus 9y ago
There is an extra claim that clarifies the contradiction: Elon Musk is trying to achieve that 10x reduction reducing the tunnel diameter. The author argues this won't work. What I understood is that, if the company indeed was trying to catch up with the international state of the art, they could actually achieve their goal, but the problem is that Mr.Musk is not only ignoring it, but calling them idiots.
So, I do not see any contradiction. But that is just how I interpret the article, I do not have a personal opinion in this issue.
- jimrandomh 9y agoPrediction: The Boring Company's first tunneling machine will be small-diameter, and each subsequent one will be larger, similar to the scale-up from Falcon 1 to Falcon 9 to Falcon Heavy, simply because that's the right way to do the R&D. But it would be very bad salesmanship to say "the first TBM is really small because that was easier for us", so instead he talks about the benefits of being smaller.