Hammer and Anvil
In this life, you are either the hammer or the anvil -Goethe I recently chanced upon a TED Talk interview on YouTube of inventor Elon Musk on his yet another ambitious project (but not to him) premised on the idea that the road traffic menace can be eased by the creation of a network of 3D tunnels that will entail boring hundreds of kilometres.The project,which is to be piloted by his Boring Company in Los Angeles, California will entail a lot of rock cutting, that will needless to mention revolutionise related industries as more efficient boring and drilling equipment will need to be invented. For those who the name is yet to ring a bell,Mr.Musk is the founder of PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla Motors. During the interview, he passionately explains, with the aid of videographics, of how special elevators will be used to cart a vehicle down a constructed underground rail which will skate it for speeds of up to 200 km/hour and at the ...