The most that can take expected in the next five to ten years - the years that count for corporate investment and Federal pollution abatement policy is that fracgas will supplant 20% of coal otherwise used in power plants.

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To suggest that we can measure carbon dioxide reservoirs or carbon dioxide flows with the accuracy required of these percentages, an accuracy required if we are to infer our efforts at carbon dioxide abatement are a success, is another sort of pollution: smoke and mirrors.

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