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| Posted: 18 Dec 2010 09:45 PM PST This video provides an overview of shale gas, starting with the first gas well near Fredonia, New York in 1821 up through January 2010 and the major shale gas plays. The speaker is John Curtis, Professor of Geochemistry and Director of the Potential Gas Agency at the Colorado School of Mines. |
| Posted: 18 Dec 2010 09:31 PM PST If you don’t see the total lunar eclipse on Monday / Tuesday (depending upon your location) you will have to wait until 2014 to see the next one. This article in the LA Times gives details of when, where, how long it will last and more. |
| Amelia Erhart on Nikumaroro Island Posted: 18 Dec 2010 09:01 PM PST New discoveries on Nikumaroro Island in the southwest Pacific Ocean has researchers believing that Amelia Erhart and navigator, Fred Noonan, lived on the island after their last radio contacts. They disappeared during a 1937 attempt to make a round-the-world flight and were last heard from over the Pacific.
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| Posted: 18 Dec 2010 09:00 PM PST Hydraulic fracturing is a procedure that can increase the flow of oil or gas from a well. It is done by pumping liquids down a well into subsurface rock units under pressures that are high enough to fracture the rock. The goal is to create a network of interconnected fractures that will serve as pore spaces for the movement of oil and natural gas to the well bore. |
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