The boom : how fracking ignited the American energy revolution and changed the world / Russell Gold.

The boom : how fracking ignited the American energy revolution and changed the world / Russell Gold.

9781451692280 hardcover alkaline paper
1451692285 hardcover alkaline paper
9781451692297 paperback alkaline paper
1451692293 paperback alkaline paper

New York : Simon & Schuster, [2014]

English

vii, 366 pages : map ; 24 cm

HD9565 .G65 2014

333.8/230973

Fracking has vociferous critics and fervent defenders, but the debate between these camps has obscured the actual story: Fracking has become a fixture of the American landscape and the global economy. It has upended the business models of energy companies around the globe, and it has started to change geopolitics and global energy markets in profound ways. Here the author tells the story of this once-obscure oilfield technology, a story with an incredible cast of tycoons and geologists, dreamers and drillers, speculators and skeptics, a story that answers a critical question of our time: Where will the energy come from to power our world, and what price will we have to pay for it?

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-347) and index.

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