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What is involved in the new technique called fracking?
What are the several steps that are followed when fracking takes place?
When the fracking fluid returns to the surface from a gas well, what new chemicals are found in it besides methane gas?
How is fracking wastewater processed after it returns to the surface from a well?
If methane gas contaminates well water (drinking water), how can the source of the methane be determined, i.e., that it came from a natural gas well rather than from bacterial action in the soil around the water well?
What is the concern about injecting waste water from the fracking operations into so-called injection wells?
Nuclear Fusion: The Next Energy Frontier?
List three reasons that fusion is considered the ultimate energy source.