Elon Musk Says Boring Company Will Sell 'Lego-Like' Kits of Excavated Rock (theverge.com)

Elon Musk says his Boring Company will sell "interlocking bricks" made from the rock that its tunnel-creating machines excavate from the ground. In other words, think Lego, he says, except giant, heavy, and made of Earth. The Verge reports: Musk says that the Boring Company will sell "kits" of bricks, starting with one that makes it easy to build things from "ancient Egypt," like replicas of the pyramids, the Sphinx, or the Temple of Horus. The bricks will be "lifesize," though it's not clear what that actually means. And they'll be bored through the middle, to save some weight, but still rated to withstand California's earthquakes. (As is typical, Musk announced the idea in freewheeling fashion on Twitter.) t's unclear when these bricks, or the kits, will be available or how much they'll cost. The Boring Company is currently only digging short, preliminary tunnels in California and Maryland, so there's presumably not enough to start selling any of this upturned rock just yet. But the small company has big plans for tunnels around the country meant to facilitate debatably futuristic modes of transportation, so there will be plenty of newly removed earth if even half of those ever come to fruition.

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Not bad but look at this, son.

[AlanObject]

So Elon figures to sell the waste product from his company. Better than paying to have it disposed. Very clever, right?

Not a new idea. He ain't got nuttin on the masters of this trade.

Take Fluoride for example. Poisonous to the body but somehow the idea was completely entrenched with no credible scientific evidence that it was great to put in drinking water. To save your teeth which would totally rot out otherwise.

Some time later the phosphate mining industry discovered they could sell fluorosilicic acid -- the waste product of their industry and expensive to dispose of -- for water utilities to dump into drinking water. This is poison. And tax dollars pay them for it.

They weren't alone. Sodium fluoride is a waste product of the aluminum industry. Toxic waste also purchased for water fluoridation supply. I heard that domestic industry ran out of this so now we import it from China who consider it a dangerous pollutant. (China!)

Elon. Very bright guy. Lots to learn.