George P. Mitchell: Fracking, Substitutability, An Unorthodox Quest to Save the Planet

摘要

This biography paints George Mitchell as a modern renaissance man whose unbounded intellectual curiosity led him to support a wide range of interests in business science and philanthropy and who sought to make the world a better, more livable place. Although he will be forever known as "the father of fracking," he did not invent the drilling process, but he perfected it and made the drilling process profitable. He pursued its use for 17 years to save his company and inadvertently unleashed an air of energy abundance transforming America dependent on foreign oil into one of the world's biggest producers of oil and natural gas. Anyone who puts fuel in a tank or turns on a light benefit from Mitchell's efforts.