Sunday, May 8, 2011

Initial Outline for First Section

Here is a (very) rough outline that I came up with when I started to think about what questions I wanted to address in my section. 
  • Description of the process
    • How is fracking done?
    • What technologies are used?
    • What technologies are on the horizon?
    • In what situations is fracking necessary? Why?
  • History of fracking
  • Potential Supplies
    • What does fracking unlock?
    • What are the locations and sizes of the plays in the US?
    • What effect will these supplies have on the possibility of American energy independence?
    • What will be the economic effects of exploiting these supplies?
Let me know if you can think of anything else I should look at or if there is anything in the outline that you think I should leave out. I know that the last 2 bullet points especially could overlap with Blaise's section, but I wasn't sure if he was focusing solely on Ohio or not and I think it's important to address those issues somewhere in the paper.