Generation & Transmission Losses.

depending which bunch of wild estimates you prefer, theremay be as much as 50years or as little as 10 of frackable shale gas under the UK.

University of Nottingham reckons the lower estimate, based on playing with British geological survey core samples in the lab, and the DOE and ECIU reckons on the higher figure based on a desk study of flow rate  in similar rocks in the US. 

It has been linked to small tremors from underground earthquakes, but only a few km from the sites.

In either case, it is a stop gap energy solution , my kids will still be alive when it runs out, and most wiring going in today will still be in service, either way ;-)

Mike,

depending which bunch of wild estimates you prefer, theremay be as much as 50years or as little as 10 of frackable shale gas under the UK.

University of Nottingham reckons the lower estimate, based on playing with British geological survey core samples in the lab, and the DOE and ECIU reckons on the higher figure based on a desk study of flow rate  in similar rocks in the US. 

It has been linked to small tremors from underground earthquakes, but only a few km from the sites.

In either case, it is a stop gap energy solution , my kids will still be alive when it runs out, and most wiring going in today will still be in service, either way ;-)

Mike,