This article in a recent Time magazine is a fairly balanced and realistic assessment of the potential for natural gas from shale save one issue – it does not address how quickly and at what cost the gas can be recovered. I will also note the article sites 34 years worth of reserves at current usage rates. If we are to expand the use of natural gas (from coal and nuclear for power production and/or in vehicles) we will end up with less than 34 years worth. In other words no matter what we are talking about a relatively short term solution, though perhaps a promising one.
