Elon Musk plans to make bricks for low-cost housing

Entrepreneur Elon Musk has announced plans to turn dirt excavated by his tunnel-digging enterprise the Boring Company into a cheap building material.

The founder of world-renowned companies Tesla and SpaceX plans to use the earth removed from creating a subterranean transport system in California to create "an insane amount of bricks" for low-cost housing.

Black caps and flamethrowers funding the venture?

Musk's plan is to build a private mass transport system of cars on electric skates in the tunnels, which could shuttle users under the city at speeds of 200 kilometers per hour.

The test tunnel that is currently being built by the Boring Company will conveniently run between Space X headquarters to the Bel-Air enclave where Musk owns five properties.

In order to fund the venture, Musk has released sell-out runs of novelty items. In December 2017 he sold 50,000 black caps emblazoned with the Boring Company logo, reportedly raising USD 1 million, and he raised a further USD 3.5 million from the sale of 7,000 flamethrowers.

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