From dezeen, December 18:
Elon Musk claims Boring Company could build transatlantic tunnel for around $20 billion
Tech mogul Elon Musk has claimed that The Boring Company could create a transatlantic tunnel between New York and London for 1,000 times less money than previously estimated.
Musk made the claim in response to a post on the social media platform X, which he owns, by news platform Daily Loud that contained a rendering of a the tunnel with the headline: "Proposed $20 Trillion tunnel would get you from New York to London in 54 minutes."
In response Musk said: "The @boringcompany could do it for 1000X less money."
Elon Musk claimed he could create the transatlantic tunnel for around $20 billion
This estimation would put the price of the transatlantic tunnel at around $20 billion (£15.7 billion).
Daily Loud was referencing a figure that has recently appeared in multiple news outlets including Newsweek and CNN, although no scientific or engineering source was cited.
Tunnel would be world's longest by over 3,000 miles
According to Forbes, in the early 2000s American researchers at MIT Ernst Frankel and Frank Davidson proposed a maglev vacuum train line that would cross the 3,500-mile distance between the metropolises and allow for speeds of up to 1,200 miles per hour....
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