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Scientists Eye Next-Gen Medical Materials to Cure Hydraulic Fracturing’s Need for Sand

August 10, 2015
William Blake could see a world in a grain of sand. Sumitra Rajagopalan, founder and CEO of the Canadian smart materials company Bioastra Technologies Inc., has a similar disposition.
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Charles McConnell: Energy Sustainability Through a Global Lens

Charles Mcconnell Rice University
December 17, 2014
Transformative technology continues to be the single largest enabler for a sustainable energy future in this world, and any number of studies also point to the fact that there is no more important contributor to the health and well-being of people than the supply of energy.
 

In future columns, I’d like to discuss in detail these technologies and how they are so important to a sustainable future. But what is energy sustainability, and how can it be viewed globally?
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Fracking Industry Looks for Ways to Vanquish its Water Habit

Bennett Resnik Vermont Law School
July 28, 2014
The hydraulic fracturing industry remains a high growth sector. But its use of water pre- and post-production has come under scrutiny as the world edges closer toward a global water crisis.
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Making Fracking More Efficient With Prescriptive Analytics

Atanu Basu Ayata
March 17, 2014
It’s difficult to make fracking more efficient and safer at the same time, but we can hedge our bets using the advanced data technologies of “prescriptive analytics.”
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How to Save the Shale Revolution

Robert A Manning Atlantic Council
March 06, 2014
“We’re in the first inning of a nine-inning game on the shale revolution in the United States,” Conoco CEO Ryan Lance recently boldly predicted. Given the dramatic impact of the shale revolution on the U.S., global energy and the geopolitical landscape—not to mention on declining GHG emissions—one can only hope he is correct.
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Fracking’s Water Habit Needs Swift Attention

Mindy Lubber Ceres
February 27, 2014
Fracking is a thirsty business.
A typical hydraulic fracturing well requires two to four million gallons of fresh water. Multiply that times hundreds of thousands of wells developed in the U.S. and Canada over the last decade and you get the idea – the shale revolution has an unquenchable water habit.

Although water use for hydraulic fracturing is a relatively small proportion of a state’s overall water use, at the local county or municipal level it is typically very high, often exceeding the water use of all residents in a region.
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Diversity and Divergence at Play in Natural Gas Boom

James Cameron Climate Change Capital
February 24, 2014
Companies, using technologies like horizontal drilling and fracking, are responding to the world’s massive and growing demand for natural gas when there is the right combination of geology, finance, technology, regulatory framework and public acceptance.
These factors are not universally present. We have diversity and divergence – and an absolute requirement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide – at play.

There is cause for caution because, as in all complex processes, there is risk.

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