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The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done

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Re: The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done

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Post by jchw »

CydeWeys wrote: post #19
sambroner wrote: post #11

I don't know much about tunneling speeds, but this seems much faster than Big Bertha in Seattle although for a much smaller volume (the tunnel is narrower) and (I'm assuming) less complex location. Big Bertha - 3.5 years, ~1.75 miles, 1.5 m/yr Boring - .15 years, .35 miles, 2.33 m/yr

Your units are confusing me. Meters per year? Surely they're faster than that?

Guessing they are talking about construction time?

edit: Oops I accidentally misunderstood your questioning. Surely that must be miles per year.

Re: The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done

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Post by snazz »

CydeWeys wrote: post #19
sambroner wrote: post #11

I don't know much about tunneling speeds, but this seems much faster than Big Bertha in Seattle although for a much smaller volume (the tunnel is narrower) and (I'm assuming) less complex location. Big Bertha - 3.5 years, ~1.75 miles, 1.5 m/yr Boring - .15 years, .35 miles, 2.33 m/yr

Your units are confusing me. Meters per year? Surely they're faster than that?

Miles

Re: The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done

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Post by grouseway »

altacc wrote: post #15

Isn't this just describing building a small but fancy subway system? Honest question: what's the novel "wow" factor that I'm missing?

Maybe the price? My city recently built an overpass over a single rail track that cost the same amount - $50 million. A tunnel like this would probably be a 10x cost run by most companies.

Re: The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done

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Post by TaylorGood »

I recently learned about the amount of homeless living in tunnels under the Las Vegas strip (1). I would imagine the depth for Boring Co is significant in comparison to these runoff tunnels right beneath the surface, but still popped into my mind..

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRrxFX1wfFg

Re: The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done

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Post by ghaff »

jandrese wrote: post #12
mzkply wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's just from one end of the LVCC to the other.

That sounds silly until you've walked from one end of the LVCC to the other.

The expansion of the LVCC made me vaguely curious about what types of shows use it given that all the IT shows I'm familiar with use the Venetian/Sands or, if they're a bit smaller, The Mandalay Bay. I haven't been there since Comdex days. It looks as if it's things like Kitchen and Bath Builders, World of Concrete, etc. So maybe things that are more oriented towards a mega show floor and less to speaking rooms.

Re: The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done

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Post by Jernik »

CydeWeys wrote: post #19
sambroner wrote: post #11

I don't know much about tunneling speeds, but this seems much faster than Big Bertha in Seattle although for a much smaller volume (the tunnel is narrower) and (I'm assuming) less complex location. Big Bertha - 3.5 years, ~1.75 miles, 1.5 m/yr Boring - .15 years, .35 miles, 2.33 m/yr

Your units are confusing me. Meters per year? Surely they're faster than that?

They used miles and years right before that, so I'm not sure how it is confusing that m/yr is miles/year

Re: The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done

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Post by elsonrodriguez »

CydeWeys wrote: post #20
3fe9a03ccd14ca5 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn’t the Tesla just an electric car? Musk as a company leader means a lot. I’m sure a lot of other people had the idea for a “Tesla” before there was Tesla. Or the idea of self-landing rockets.

There's a big difference between an ICE car and a BEV. There's no difference between a tunnel and a tunnel.

There's also no difference between a rocket and a rocket, until you figure out how to make one cheaper than the other.

Re: The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done

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Post by maxharris »

CydeWeys wrote: post #20
3fe9a03ccd14ca5 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn’t the Tesla just an electric car? Musk as a company leader means a lot. I’m sure a lot of other people had the idea for a “Tesla” before there was Tesla. Or the idea of self-landing rockets.

There's a big difference between an ICE car and a BEV. There's no difference between a tunnel and a tunnel.

When you build the tunnel for a tenth the cost, that's a pretty big difference. The same budget lets you build ten times more infrastructure, which is quite badly needed! I live in Los Angeles and things are so bad here that often you simply can't see friends that live only a few miles away.

Re: The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done

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Post by wedn3sday »

grouseway wrote: post #23
altacc wrote: post #15

Isn't this just describing building a small but fancy subway system? Honest question: what's the novel "wow" factor that I'm missing?

Maybe the price? My city recently built an overpass over a single rail track that cost the same amount - $50 million. A tunnel like this would probably be a 10x cost run by most companies.

The "wow" factor is the price per distance, and digging rate. These infrastructure projects (in the USA at least) are usually extremely expensive and slow.

Re: The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done

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Post by dragonwriter »

3fe9a03ccd14ca5 wrote: post #17
mdszy wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "wow" factor is that Musk's name is associated with it. Nothing more.

Isn’t the Tesla just an electric car? Musk as a company leader means a lot. I’m sure a lot of other people had the idea for a “Tesla” before there was Tesla. Or the idea of self-landing rockets.

> I’m sure a lot of other people had the idea for a “Tesla” before there was Tesla.

Well, certainly Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning had the idea for Tesla before Musk was involved.

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