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Letter: Why frack?

Published 24 July 2013

From Ted Watson

Fracking technology has developed effective and accurate horizontal drilling to exploit fossil fuels deep underground (8 June, p 7). This is precisely the technology that would allow the exploitation of clean, sustainable geothermal energy. There is an almost unlimited supply of this in many places; why not develop it?

Brighton, East Sussex, UK

Issue no. 2927 published 27 July 2013

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