fracking water Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 27 Sep 2017 05:14:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Energy-saving Microfilter for Fracking Water Removes Over 90% Impurities https://www.greenoptimistic.com/microfilter-fracking-water-20170926/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/microfilter-fracking-water-20170926/#respond Wed, 27 Sep 2017 05:12:38 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=64486 An average of more than five million gallons of water are used in a hydraulically fractured well, and only a small portion, around 10 to 15 percent of this water is recoverable during the backflow process. “This makes it very important to be able to re-use this water,” Rice University chemist Andrew Barron said. Researchers […]

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