Warwick Boring are looking for financial support to fund their bid to win in a global competition organised by Elon Musks the Boring Company. They are already finalists so if you are wanting to support them and help them raise the £30,000 they need in further funding please visit their ‘Kickstarter’ campaign https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/warwick-boring/elon-musks-finalists-warwick-boring?ref=project_link
About Warwick Boring
We are a diverse and ambitious group of 30+ engineers from the University of Warwick, UK who qualified into the Finals of Elon Musk’s Competition as the top 3% worldwide (12 out of 400 applicants) so-called “Not-A-Boring Tunnelling Competition 2021” hosted by The Boring Company.
Aim of competition: Finalists from around the world - "the Digging Dozen" - racing their unique Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) near Las Vegas this Summer.
This is where our team will demonstrate our scalable, fast and cost efficient TBM by digging a 30-meter tunnel with a cross-sectional area of 0.2 square meters and answer the question, “Can we beat the snail?"
Our Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM)
Tunnel Boring Machines dig and make tunnels. They are too slow and way too expensive at the moment!
What sets our design apart is the slip-form tunnel lining solution we are developing, which enables continuous propulsion leading to greater simplification of the tunneling process (no need to stop every 5 feet - common in today’s TBMs). This reduces the complexity and cost while increases efficiency and speed.
Key FACTS:
Advance rate: 150mm/min = expect to complete 30m tunnel in only few hours!
Modular: "easy-to-assemble" approach
Cost efficiency: our scaled-up system is expected to be 10X cheaper than traditional machines that take $100m - $1bn per mile to construct tunnels
Fast: our scaled-up TBM is expected to be 80% faster than standard machines that typically dig one mile in 8-12 weeks.
Our main goals would be the following:
Fastest to complete a tunnel
Most accurate guidance system
Provide smoothest driving surface for Tesla small cars
To read more about the competition and how to help fund us please click here. 17/21.
