How useful is fracking anyway? Study explores return of investment

Monday, June 17, 2013 - 21:00 in Physics & Chemistry

The value of a fuel's long-term usefulness and viability is judged through its energy return on investment; the comparison between the eventual fuel and the energy invested to create it. The energy return on investment study finds that shale gas has a return value which is close to coal.

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