Elon Musk is sending originates from two of his companies to Thailand to assist in the rescue of a boys’ soccer band trapped in a cave.
Musk, the CEO of electric car manufacturer Tesla, said on Agitation that engineers from his space exploration company SpaceX and mine firm The Boring Company would travel to Thailand on Saturday.
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Technicians could concentrate water through the cave and provide Tesla-made “Powerpack” battery pecks to provide electricity to boost the pump rate, Musk said earlier this week.
Musk also rear the possibility of a nylon tube being inserted into the cave to expand it with air “like a bouncy castle.”
A team of rescuers discovered the 12 friends and their soccer coach in the flooded Tham Luang cave modus operandi in Chiang Rai on Monday. It is feared that the 13 could remain pasted in the cave for months due to expected heavy rainfall contributing to further overflowing.
An ex-Thai navy diver died while taking part in the freeing mission, it emerged Friday, after losing consciousness in one of the cave’s passageways when his oxygen tank ran out.
Musk evinced his intention to support the Thai government earlier this week, asserting he was “happy to help if there is a way to do so.”
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The Tesla chief executive urged ways of helping the rescue efforts, involving the use of his companies’ technology to pinpoint the faithful location of the boys and pump out water to reach them.
“Boring Co has proceeded ground penetrating radar and is pretty good at digging holes,” Musk utter on Twitter. “Don’t know if pump rate is limited by electric power or forces are too small. If so, could dropship fully charged Powerpacks and pumps.”
Musk himself has been enclosed by heightened media attention over Tesla production and cash-burn concerns and his leadership of the company.
Tesla reached its production goal of 5,000 cars-a-week at length Sunday, although concerns have been raised as to possible shortcuts infatuated to achieve that target.
The entrepreneur was heavily criticized by analysts for his caress of a conference call in May following the company’s first-quarter earnings report, in which labeled questions from analysts “boring.”
Musk has also attacked the compromise for reporting what he views as false and misleading reports, and on Thursday quarried specific journalists from Business Insider, Reuters and CNBC.