The fracking industry has often been criticized for its tremendous water usage. Plasma Pulse Technology is a new fracking tech that requires no chemicals or water. Its developers describe it as a technique that is complementary to fracking, at a fraction of the cost. In the previous article , I discussed some of the issues involving water and hydraulic fracturing (fracking). In a nutshell, although fracking has proven to be a highly effective means of boosting oil and natural gas production, the process requires millions of gallons of water. Further, there is the potential to contaminate water supplies. Although fracking isn’t going away anytime soon, it would be beneficial if there were some complementary tools for drillers in the event that conventional fracking could prove to be problematic. For example, an extremely arid area with certain types of hydrocarbon resources could be ripe for such a technique. Several years […]