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Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Alex Prud´homme
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Description for Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Paperback. Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know is a concise, well-informed primer on one of the most promising yet controversial methods of accessing natural gas and oil. Exploring the promises and pitfalls of fracking, Alex Prud'homme offers an even-handed introduction for an interested general reader. Series: What Everyone Needs to Know. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: RBGL; THFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 211 x 14. Weight in Grams: 226.
Constantly in the news and the subject of much public debate, fracking, as it is known for short, is one of the most promising yet controversial methods of extracting natural gas and oil. Today, 90 percent of natural gas wells use fracking. Though highly effective, the process-which fractures rock with pressurized fluid-has been criticized for polluting land, air, and water, and endangering human health. A timely addition to Oxford's What Everyone Needs to Know series, Hydrofracking tackles this contentious topic, exploring both sides of the debate and providing a clear guide to the science underlying the technique. In ... Read more
Constantly in the news and the subject of much public debate, fracking, as it is known for short, is one of the most promising yet controversial methods of extracting natural gas and oil. Today, 90 percent of natural gas wells use fracking. Though highly effective, the process-which fractures rock with pressurized fluid-has been criticized for polluting land, air, and water, and endangering human health. A timely addition to Oxford's What Everyone Needs to Know series, Hydrofracking tackles this contentious topic, exploring both sides of the debate and providing a clear guide to the science underlying the technique. In ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
What Everyone Needs to Know
Condition
New
Weight
227g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199311255
SKU
V9780199311255
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About Alex Prud´homme
Alex Prud'homme has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Time. He is the author of five books, including The Ripple Effect: the Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century, and the co-writer of Julia Child's bestselling memoir, My Life in France.
Reviews for Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know®
...a useful overview of the broad subject of fracking and its implications. It is good value as priced.
Chemistry World
Chemistry World