en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruina_montium Non-mobile link.
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mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Comment on [XKCD] Pascal's Law
mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruina_montium Non-mobile link.
Kayel@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Still confused. They’re sinking shafts at an angle into rock, filling with water, the pressure towards the bottom breaks the rock.
And then? How is the water drained, the shaft re- stabilised, etc
mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The water isn’t drained. You sink the shaft past what you need to extract. Restabilization is why slave lives were so cheap. This was gulag work. Shafts would collapse all the time. It’s not a modern mining operation.
wewbull@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Well it’s fracking