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- Elon Musk’s Boring Company, a startup that wants to build an underground network of tunnels in Washington, DC and Los Angeles, plans to sell bricks made of its leftover rock.
- Musk tweeted on Monday that the bricks could be used to construct houses and other buildings.
- Other startups have developed similar low-cost construction methods.
In 2016, entrepreneur Elon Musk launched the Boring Company with the goal of one day constructing a large urban network of tunnels.
The company is working on two projects in the Washington, DC region and Los Angeles. It first broke ground on a test site in LA in late 2017.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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