{"id":84768,"date":"2018-11-15T14:02:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T22:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/elon-musks-boring-company-is-launching-diy-watchtowers-with-bricks-from-tunnel-dirt"},"modified":"2018-11-15T14:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T22:02:25","slug":"elon-musks-boring-company-is-launching-diy-watchtowers-with-bricks-from-tunnel-dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/elon-musks-boring-company-is-launching-diy-watchtowers-with-bricks-from-tunnel-dirt","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Boring Company is launching DIY watchtowers with bricks from tunnel dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musks-boring-company-is-launching-diy-watchtowers-with-bricks-from-tunnel-dirt.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Getting rid of dirt is one of the largest costs of digging tunnels and Elon Musk\u2019s Boring Company is exploring some creative ways to do that.<\/p>\n<p>They are launching \u201cDIY watchtowers\u201d with bricks made of dirt from their tunnels.<\/p>\n<p>They estimate that the cost of moving the dirt can represent up to 15% of the total cost of a tunnel, which is why they want to turn the dirt into a product itself.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2018\/11\/15\/elon-musk-boring-company-diy-watchtowers-bricks-tunnel-dirt\/\">https:\/\/electrek.co\/2018\/11\/15\/elon-musk-boring-company-diy-...nnel-dirt\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting rid of dirt is one of the largest costs of digging tunnels and Elon Musk\u2019s Boring Company is exploring some creative ways to do that. They are launching \u201cDIY watchtowers\u201d with bricks made of dirt from their tunnels. They estimate that the cost of moving the dirt can represent up to 15% of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}