The Boring Firm’s Prufrock-3 tunnel boring machine (TBM) just lately accomplished a tunnel to Giga Texas, and in true Elon Musk style, the tunneling startup instantly transported the machine to its subsequent dig web site. As could possibly be seen in images that had been shared on X, Prufrock-3 had a fairly cool escort because it was being moved round Giga Texas — the Tesla Cybertruck.
Pictures of the Cybertruck escorting Prufrock-3 in Giga Texas had been shared by the tunneling startup on The Boring Firm’s official X account. Whereas Prufrock-3 was being escorted by a lot of Teslas within the pictures, it was evident that the Cybertruck was the tunnel boring machine’s lead escort automobile.
On the highway once more @Tesla pic.twitter.com/Kzn0PYl49U
— The Boring Firm (@boringcompany) June 12, 2024
Earlier posts from The Boring Firm point out that Prufrock-3 was instantly captured by “The Monster” after it completed digging by means of Giga Texas. Due to “The Monster,” which permits Prufrock-3 to launch straight into the bottom, the tunnel boring machine might simply be pushed to its subsequent tunnel web site and launched in lower than 24 hours.
The tunneling business is ripe for some disruption, so it’s no shock that The Boring Firm’s targets for Prufrock are extremely formidable. As per The Boring Firm’s official web site, Prufrock is designed to tunnel at a velocity that’s larger than one mile per week. Within the medium-term, the tunneling startup is predicted to exceed 1/10 of a human’s strolling velocity, which is seven miles per day.
Prufrock-3 has been captured by “The Monster” inside Giga Texas! The Monster is then pushed to the subsequent tunnel web site, the place it tilts downwards and launches Prufrock straight into the bottom. Allows Prufrock to launch in < 24 hours. pic.twitter.com/oqtImRq1qF
— The Boring Firm (@boringcompany) June 12, 2024
Such objectives are nothing in need of insane contemplating that the quickest TBMs out there at this time are solely able to digging by means of a number of hundred meters each month. This was the case with the large “Caucasus” tunnel boring machine, which was used to dig the Gudauri tunnel in Georgia. Throughout its operations, the Caucasus was in a position to dig by means of a most of 426 meters (about 1,400 toes) in a single month. This velocity was already very fast for TBMs.
After all, The Boring Firm’s Prufrock is a considerably smaller TBM that makes considerably smaller tunnels. Nonetheless, the velocity of its operations and its targets means that Prufrock is a machine that shouldn’t be dismissed, as it’s a TBM that has the potential to vary the tunnel-boring machine business, very similar to how the Tesla Mannequin 3 modified the mainstream EV market.
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