- Behind-the-Scenes Efforts: Rep. Wesley Hunt has spent months trying to get officials to hire Elon Musk’s The Boring Co. to build a major flood infrastructure project in Houston.
- Size Matters: The Boring Co. has pitched building tunnels that are far smaller than what most studies have indicated the region would need to address its ongoing flooding issues.
- Under Consideration: County officials recently put together a report looking at the possibility of smaller tunnels, though they say they’ve made no final decision on design or contractor.
So it’s a scam that will waste tax payer dollars and enrich Musk and the Congressman, right?
Very likely
But Houston already has tunnels under it.
But not poorly built private tunnels paid for by the taxpayer at 100 times the cost that will get cancelled part way through, damage buildings above without compensation, and magically need prime land transferred to their personal ownership.
These will also work great for our future subterranean climate-apocalypse societies!
Except most if not all of Houston, including these tunnels, will be underwater then. Start growing your gills now.
Platypeople! Platypeople!
Initially I was thinking this makes sense. Im so glad the chicago metro area did the deep tunnel but yeah they should do it right and not some inadequate version. I can say that deep tunnel started out way smaller and capacity grew and grew as they saw greater and greater need and its still barely adequate to a major event. I expect it to be expanded more.
Someone finally found a use for his Boring machines.
A note that his company hasnt really achieved anything of note.
The thing they crow about the most is just standard automation which they are not the first to do
“found” is a very generous word for contrived
My concern is more about desertification. Haven’t cities and areas with too much drainage suffered from a lack of groundwater which directly impacted the local climate? IIRC there’s even a city in Indonesia that is now sinking because the Dutch colonials drained all the rain water into the sea. That combined with the usage of groundwater for irrigation and local water supply lead to the groundwater reserves depleting and the city sinking significantly. So much so that the coastal city is now in danger of sinking into the ocean more quickly.
Hopefully the drainage tunnels will also drain into groundwater reservoirs and not just into the sea.
