This Company Coal Town in Iowa Was a 'Black Utopia'
It was integrated, it was unionized—and it was a company town.
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Offworld 'company towns' are the wrong way to settle the solar system
Are we really willing to trust mercurial SpaceX CEO Elon Musk with people's air supplies?
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"Gas extraction challenge and the application of hydraulic cavity techn" by Hao Zhang, Yuanping Cheng et al.
Hydraulic cavity has been demonstrated to be an efficient gas extraction technology in the single, soft, and low-permeability coal seam in China. However, the permeability evolution around hydraulic cavity has not been fully understood due to the lack of the permeability model in the post-peak stage, which leads to a great challenge for the gas extraction simulation and thus the borehole design. Therefore, we developed a fully coupled dual-porosity gas extraction model that considers the effects...
Source: uow.edu.au