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cpr on June 18, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Increasing Scarcity of Helium

Fracking is fairly efficient at extraction from shale.

codingdave on June 18, 2015 [–]

In the short-term, yes. But those wells decline in production drastically faster than traditional drilling.

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