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Elon Musk was approached to dig a brand new particle collider that would extend over 100km under Geneva in Switzerland, revealed the serial entrepreneur.
The Future Circular Collider (FCC) – would replace the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in order to advance our understanding of the universe.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, published a report last week on the design of the collider, which reveals plans for a structure almost four times longer than its predecessor, at a cost of 24 billion euros (£ 21.2 billion).
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As a co-founder of the tunnel digging company The Boring Company, Mr Musk says he could cut this bill by several billion euros. On Monday, he tweeted that the director of CERN had questioned him about the possibility of using his tunnel digging business.
"The CERN director asked me if Boring Co had built the new LHC tunnel when we were at the @royalsociety," he tweeted. "That would probably save several billion euros."
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The CERN report, which involved 1,300 contributors from 150 universities, estimated the cost of digging the tunnel at 5 billion euros.
According to the five-year report, if the green light is given, the FCC would be operational by 2040.
"The FCC Conceptual Design Report is a remarkable achievement," CERN Director General Fabiola Gianotti said in a statement accompanying the release of the report.
"This shows the tremendous potential of the FCC to improve its knowledge of fundamental physics and to advance many technologies that have a significant impact on society."
A spokesman for CERN confirmed L & # 39; Independent Mr. Musk met with Mr. Gianotti in July 2018 and had a "brief informal discussion" about the possibility of a tunnel dug by The Boring Company.
"In view of the plans for future larger accelerators, CERN is indeed open to new cost-effective technologies that could lead to their implementation, including the necessary tunnels," the spokesman said.
"Having said that, please note that we are not starting to dig a tunnel any time soon."
The Boring Company has not yet dug a commercial tunnel, but is currently in discussion with the city of Chicago for the construction of an underground transportation system intended to connect the city center to the city. O. Hare International Airport.
The company unveiled a test tunnel in December in Hawthorne, California, which, according to Musk, could be the first part of a Loop network under Los Angeles.
Mr. Musk, who describes The Boring Company as a "kind of recreational enterprise," previously stated that the equipment used could reduce tunneling costs and delays by a factor of 10 or more.
"In conventional tunneling projects, the extracted earth is shipped off-site to disposal sites," says the company's website.
"This process is expensive, time consuming, noisy and can be dangerous for the environment. The Boring Company has developed technologies to recycle brick earth for structural construction. "
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