![]() Those rocks contained natural gas that would be impossible to reach without the help of the concentrated blast.Roberts ingeniously combined his battle prowess with the scientific advancements of 1860s America. It would then be launched down into the strata below, the water preventing the explosion from moving upwards. As a confederate artillery barrage railed a nearby canal, Roberts lay bleeding, but inspired.He would soon patent the “Roberts torpedo.” His procedure entailed lowering a torpedo into a well filled with water. Roberts witnessed what he would later realize to be the process of shale fracturing. In 2004 the Environmental Protection Agency ruled that hydraulic fracturing wasn’t a threat to water supplies, and soon the practice was exempted from the Safe Drinking Water Act by the Bush administration.The history of fracing, however, goes back to the American Civil War era.
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