About an hour ago The Boring Company released a video of Prufrock-2 coming alive in Texas, signaling some serious disruption in the tunneling sector. Here is why.
The Boring Company’s Prufrock digging machine is designed to tunnel at a speed that’s greater than 1 mile per week. This is already six times faster than Godot+, the machine that completed the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) Loop. The Boring Company has ambitious goals for Prufrock, however, as the tunneling startup states on its website that in the medium term, the all-electric TBM’s goal is to exceed 1/10 of a human’s walking speed.
That’s 7 miles per day — in the medium-term.
I asked under The Boring Company’s Twitter page, where this new video was posted, about the purpose of the Prufrock-2 coming alive in Texas. Some people replied and said the first Austin tunnel is going between the airport and Giga Texas.
If you don’t understand how the Prufrock-2 is different from The Boring Company’s other tunneling machines, consider this:
The key improvements in the Prufrock-2 are installing the precast segments while the TBM is advancing (without having to stop the TBM), use of electricity rather than diesel (make the ventilation system easier), and use of rubber tire locomotives or cars to transport spoils out of the tunnel (less groundborne noise, vibration, and above-ground settlement). Looks like the boring company will be disrupting the traditional tunneling process a bit.
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This is Armen Hareyan from Torque News. Please follow us at https://twitter.com/torquenewsauto on Twitter and https://www.torquenews.com/ for daily automotive news.
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Prufrock is Here. . . . . #BoringCompany @martinoffiah #LasVegas #ElonMusk pic.twitter.com/fP92kxddbS— A Boring Revolution (@BoringPrufrock) July 6, 2021
Prufrock-2 is alive in Texas pic.twitter.com/Hj5H03Fd36
— The Boring Company (@boringcompany) August 21, 2021
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