In 1998 he took CapRock public by merging with IWL Communications, a Houston-based wireless telephone company rich with engineers.

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The sole rival, SBC Communications, is still barred by federal law from offering the long- distance fiber services that CapRock provides.

FORBES: Fiber in the sagebrush

In 1998 he took CapRock public by merging with IWL Communications, a Houston-based wireless telephone company that is rich with engineers.

FORBES: Fiber in the sagebrush

The sole rival, SBC Communications, is still barred by federal law from offering the long distance fiber services that CapRock provides.

FORBES: Fiber in the sagebrush

If CapRock can grab just 5% of the local telephone and data market in the region it has targeted, says Thompson, it will have a billion-dollar business.

FORBES: Fiber in the sagebrush

Instead of putting down trunk lines between major cities, however, CapRock will lay fiber to overlooked destinations such as San Angelo (pop. 93, 000) and Nacogdoches, Tex. (pop. 31, 188).

FORBES: Fiber in the sagebrush

The authors argue that even quakes that are imperceptible to humans can damage the caprock seal of CO2 repositories enough to release the gas back into the atmosphere.

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Instead of putting down trunk lines between major cities, however, CapRock will lay fiber to overlooked destinations -- for example, smaller Texas cities such as San Angelo (pop. 93, 000) and Nacogdoches (pop. 31, 188).

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If the demonstration plant works as well as hoped, the plan will be to build combined electricity and hydrogen generating stations in locations where there are geological formations containing saline water overlain by a thick caprock serving as a seal.

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