Gold points out that over the 150-year history of oil and gas exploitation, we have worked our way down from vast accumulations of cheap, high-quality hydrocarbons to poor-quality shales. "Source rock is where plankton turned into hydrocarbons," he muses. "There is no further back." We "fossil-fuel addicts", he suggests, should think of shale gas as methadone, a stepping stone on the way to a renewably powered future.
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Posted on: Wednesday, 9 April 2014 10:00 AM
Author: Chris Nelder
Subject: Energy: The new oil era
Energy: The new oil era
Nature 508, 7495 (2014). doi:10.1038/508185a<http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/508185a>
Author: Chris Nelder
Chris Nelder relishes a lively history of fracking that delves into the complexities.
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