A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert

Re:A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert by imaginenore on Sunday November 20, 2016 @03:42AM (#12997934)

Modern fracking has a waterless option. It's called plasma pulse technology (PPT).

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Re:A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert by ZenoArrow on Sunday November 20, 2016 @04:13AM (#12998019)

Interesting, makes you wonder why it's not promoted more heavily. Are there any drawbacks with the PPT approach?

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Re:A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert by forgetsusername on Sunday November 20, 2016 @06:53AM (#12998384)

>Are there any drawbacks with the PPT approach?

Cost efficiency.

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Re:A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert by oliv__ on Sunday November 20, 2016 @08:11AM (#12998669)

aka: more expensive

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Re:A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert by ta2507823 on Sunday November 20, 2016 @08:25AM (#12998721)

I imagine (from looking at it briefly) that it would not even nearly come close to the effectiveness of fracking. It looks very similar to water jet fracking - which doesn't work very well either

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