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Hydro, from Duncan Coker

September 24, 2014 |

The hydraulic fracturing process which has lead to a big increases in recoverable fossil fuels is having an interest effect on other resources. Hydro is the Greek root for water and the process is extremely water intensive. In places where water is finite in supply like the western states, water rights are being sold by municipalities at prices 10x those just a few year ago. This is not a new story but an interesting twist. I'd rather own water rights than oil/mineral rights out west and I wonder how long before the h2o commodity becomes actively traded.


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  1. Marc Strausebrg on September 25, 2014 11:14 am

    Hi Duncan

    I agree with your observation and I have seen a great deal of interest, from users of our Oil & Gas version of http://www.9wsearch.com/ , our new financial “answer engine”.

    I will let you know more about the subject of your blog as I see more details of the types of questions we will be getting when IBM Watson introduces the commercial version of http://www.9wsearch.com/watson/ in the next few months

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