Andres Clarens, an assistant professor of civil and
environmental engineering at U.Va.’s School of Engineering and Applied Science,
and graduate student Zhiyuan Tao have published a paper in which they estimate
the amount of carbon dioxide that could be stored in hydraulically fractured
shale deposits after the methane gas has been extracted. Their peer-reviewed
finding was published in Environmental Science and Technology, a publication of
the American Chemical Society.