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Shale Games

We owe the natural gas boom we’re living in to hydraulic fracking. The drilling technique taps shale with horizontal pipe that can run for thousands of feet, a mile below the surface.

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Fracking: A Look Back

Fracking: A Look Back

The environmental controversy over oil well “fracking” is just the latest chapter in the colorful history of a technique dating back to the birth of the petroleum industry.

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Engineering the </br> Future of Coal

Engineering the Future of Coal

Vlad Kecojevic, Massey Foundation Professor of Mining Engineering at the University of West Virginia, talks about the future of coal for engineers. From data mining to coal liquefaction to mine safety, he weighs in on the topics surrounding this rock that’s been used for energy for centuries.

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Basic Engineering Technical Group (BETG)

Comprised of six Divisions concerned with the application of basic engineering principles

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Applied Mechanics Division (AMD)

Energy and Technology Management Group (ETMG)

Committee on Power Boilers

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Fossil Power (coal, oil, and natural gas) is the primary energy source for generating electricity. Electricity from fossil fuels requires conversion to thermal energy as steam and then to mechanical energy to drive a generator. About three-fourths of U.S. energy comes from fossil fuels; the remainder is from nuclear reactors, hydropower, and renewables such as solar and wind. Fossil fuel emissions (carbon dioxide, nitrogen and its oxides, and sulfur oxides) account for much U.S. air pollution.

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