Cheap and clean natural gas, thanks to
fracking technologies developed since the 1970's with significant support from taxpayers, has rapidly displaced coal.
Not exact matches
Russia does border China, but the Chinese government refused to except Gazprom's archaic higher gas prices years ago and has long since started
developing their own rival pipelines, gas fields, advanced
fracking technology, liquified gas
technology, and China plans to import from the US.
Fracking technology has
developed effective and accurate horizontal drilling to exploit fossil fuels deep underground (8 June, p 7).
But fossil fuel advocates note that DOE support has been critical to industry advances, including
developing the
technology behind
fracking, offshore drilling, and cleaner - burning coal and natural gas power plants.
All real economies are mixtures, but the US mix includes some government supports to novel
technologies like solar farms, as well as market -
developed novel
technologies like
fracking.