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I wonder: if Mr Musk's will ever succeed with The Boring Company, would it significantly help with the shortage? By succeed I mean doing tunnels right and left.

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Not really. You can't use just any soil for construction, it has to be a sandy/grainy variety.

Not likely as drilling and boring takes an inordinate amount of time with current alloys and tech.

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