How useful is fracking anyway? Study explores return of investment
Monday, June 17, 2013 - 10:30
in Physics & Chemistry
The value of a fuel's long-term usefulness and viability is judged through its energy return on investment; the comparison between the eventual fuel and the energy invested to create it. The energy return on investment (EROI) study published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology finds that shale gas has a return value which is close to coal.