American billionaire revealed the second tunnel monster

Billionaire Elon Musk claims the second tunneling machine owned by his Boring Company was " almost ready".

Elton Musk, SpaceX and Tesla bosses say the new machine will be called "Line Storm" in a Twitter-sharing on Oct. 19 following a poem written in 1915 by famed American poet Robert Frost, according to CNBC. The new announcement raises speculation the engine is designed to operate in all weather.

Musk came up with the idea of a tunneling company after being frustrated by the congestion in congested traffic in Los Angeles, California. He plans to build a tunnel network under the city, which can transport vehicles on slabs at speeds of up to 200km / h.

Part of the Godot tunnel machine by billionaire Elon Musk. (Photo: Verge).

Earlier this year, the first tunneling machine named Godot of Boring Company began digging an underground tunnel under Los Angeles. The name of the machine is based on the play "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett.

News of the second tunnel came just two months after the Boring Company was first allowed to dig tunnels outside the corporate premises. In August, the Los Angeles City Council voted in favor of Boring Company to build a 3.2km experimental tunnel at a depth of 13.5m beneath the public streets around SpaceX headquarters.

This test will help ensure that the plan is actually feasible. If the results are not as expected, the city of Los Angeles may require concrete tunnels or rock. The company is also committed to stop construction immediately if the ground moves even more than one centimeter.

Drill head of tunneling machine 12,000 tons. (Video: YouTube).

Some suggested that Musk would use the Boring Company to dig tunnels for the hyperloop system. However, tunneling under cities requires a lot of time because of the dense layers of rock that are not mapped accurately.

"Our recent experience in tunneling in the United States is that people are concerned, have to meet a lot of environmental laws and you never know what's underground , " Wired quoted Michael Manville, a senior research fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles.