This Jan. 9, 2014 staff file photo shows machinist Nelson Saravia operating a CNC machine, which makes the hydraulic manifold for a helicopter at Warmelin Precision Products in Hawthorne.
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Elon Muska s tunnel goals may be too lofty a ” even for the eccentric billionaire
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Tesla may have revolutionized space travel and electric vehicle design and manufacturing, but experts say his latest lofty goal of increasing tunnel-building efficiency by at least 500 percent is absolutely ridiculous. The Hawthorne-based billionaire began digging a hole – technically, a vertical shaft – next to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. at Crenshaw Boulevard and 120th Street on Friday.
This is what Elon Musk’s mysterious digging tweets are about
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has broken ground on an underground tunnel he plans to burrow beneath the city of Los Angeles to spare himself from having to sit in traffic. He’s also about to purchase a large earth drilling machine to continue the tunnel, which was started on his companies’ properties in Hawthorne, CA, according to a person familiar with his thinking.
Elon Musk tweets mysterious a tunnela project
Just weeks after suddenly tweeting “Traffic is driving me nuts” and “am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging,” the SpaceX and Tesla founder says it’s on the verge of happening. The cryptic statements have launched speculation about another fantastic transportation idea from Musk, who builds orbital rockets at his Space Exploration Technologies company, better known as SpaceX, based in Hawthorne, California, near Los Angeles International Airport.
Power outages, flaring put Torrance refinery on hotseat for Wednesday AQMD hearing
Air quality regulators on Wednesday are scheduled to discuss an order requiring the owners of the Torrance Refinery to improve its electrical system after at least three power outages in the last year caused excessive flaring that sent thick black smoke belching across the city. The enforcement hearing hosted by the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s independent Hearing Board is set to begin at 9 a.m. in Diamond Bar.