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Fracking May Make Texas Power Supply Drought Resistant

2013-12-20 05:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: A new University of Texas-Austin study shows that producing electricity from natural gas saves much more water than producing power from coal, even accounting for water lost in fracking for shale gas. In other words, fracking for natural gas used to produce electricity may make Texas more drought-resistant as the state shifts from coal power generation to natural gas power generation. The study, funded by the state of Texas, looks at how Texas' devastating 2011 drought affected electricity...

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