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Hydraulic fracturing, often called fracking, fracing or hydrofracking, is the process of initiating and subsequently propagating a fracture in a rock layer, employing the pressure of a fluid as the source of energy. The fracturing, known as a frack job (or frac job), is done from a wellbore drilled into reservoir rock formations, in order to increase the extraction rates and ultimate recovery of oil and natural gas.

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• Sea Level: The Geological “Control Knob” for Atmospheric CO2?
  Guest “putting 2 and 2 together” by David Middleton This post is the nucleus of a hypothesis I’ve been trying to develop. It is a “work in progress” and not…
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• The Vivarium is a renovated industrial warehouse in Thailand turned into a terrarium-like restaurant
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• Can We Actually Even Tell if Humans Are Affecting the Climate? What if we did nothing at all?
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