About the Author Matt Doeden began his career as a sports writer. Since then, he's spent more than a decade writing and editing children's nonfiction. Matt lives in Minnesota with his family.
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Pretty good look at resource extraction
This book is written at an early grades reading level. Some vocabulary words include: provide, backbone, hydrocarbons, peat, deposits, refined, pressure, geologists, valuable, fracture.On the downside, the book features photos of angry, violent protesters. It offers too many disproved or unprovable assertions presented as facts or "coulds". And it has bad information about recycling.However, the upside outweighs the downside. The shale oil revolution is the most exciting area of applied science happening today. My kids are wild to learn more about the science, the benefits and trade-offs, the processes, the biographies, and the possibilities of resource extraction. This book offers exciting photos of things that kids are interested in: a coal train, a gasoline engine, prospecting, mining, tunneling/boring (very cool machinery), drilling for natural gas, a refinery, and a deep sea oil rig. There is a good illustration of how hydraulic fracturing works.This is an impressive book that should excite kids to learn more about the new technologies and wide-open possibilities of the energy marketplace. Don't miss it! Great for classroom use or homeschoolers.
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