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Study shows uncovers how beetle gut microbes serve as reactor for fuel production

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The team also demonstrated that the beetle gut architecture prevents certain products like hydrogen from escaping in order to favor the production of acetate, a critical energy source not only for the beetle itself, but also for its offspring. We study them because they are a natural model biorefinery. —Jennifer Pett-Ridge.

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NRC report concludes hydraulic fracturing poses low risk for causing earthquakes, but risks are higher for wastewater injection wells; CCS impact undetermined

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The process cracks the shale rock formation and allows natural gas to escape and flow up the well, along with some wastewater. Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) extracts natural gas by injecting a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals in short bursts at high pressure into deep underground wells.

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