- Elon Musk's Boring Company, a startup that wants to build an underground network of tunnels in Washington, DC and Los Angeles, plans to sell bricks made of its leftover rock.
- Musk tweeted on Monday that the bricks could be used to construct houses and other buildings.
- Other startups have developed similar low-cost construction methods.
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Elon Musk's Boring Company will sell Lego-like bricks that can be used to construct houses in just a few days
Musk tweeted that the Boring Company will offer bricks — made of its leftover rocks — that interlock so that people can build houses and other structures.
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In 2016, entrepreneur Elon Musk launched the Boring Company with the goal of one day constructing a
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The Boring Company's site had already hinted at these plans before Musk's tweet, and acknowledges that using rock for bricks is not a new concept.
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