[who_would_fardels_bear]

I can’t wait until we use up all the natural gas to generate electricity, so that we don’t have any left to heat homes.

[hadaclueonce]

Saudi’s are directing their production to shut down frackers.

[alloysteel]

We are simply going to have to build a whole lot more natural-gas distribution lines, putting the new-found natural gas supplies in the hands of way more customers, and to expand the use of natural gas, build many more locally-positioned natural-gas-fired power generation stations, both to replace the coal-fired plants now being rapidly decommissioned, and to shore up our self-reliance on domestic energy sources.

And while you are at it, greatly expand the availability of compressed natural gas as a fuel source for internal combustion engines, both spark-ignition and Diesel, in fixed locations and in vehicles.

We have been given an unexpected wellspring to forge a whole new prosperity. Let us not waste the opportunity.

Job for the smart guys - design and get into production fuel cells that generate electricity DIRECTLY from natural gas, without going through intermediary steps that make use of natural gas for power generation from this method prohibitively expensive. It would involve using carbon monoxide->carbon dioxide reaction in the presence of oxygen (available everywhere in the atmosphere) directly to generate electric flow.

You call yourselves chemical engineers. Get to work.

[Company Man]

Just a day or two ago, a Freeper posted an article stating that the proven reserves in the Barnett Shale are nearly twice what was first estimated.