But large swaths of those dry fields could have a valuable new use in their future - making electricity.

不过大面积的干涸土地在未来将有着新的用途——发电。

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The rain water soaks into the dry fields.

雨水滋润着干涸的田野。

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These were supposed to be long-term cash cows that balanced out uneconomic dry gas fields.

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Then Lanworth knits in observations made at ground level by four pairs of people who travel the back roads of America taking notes on how far along crops are or how wet or dry the fields might be.

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New wells will fail to plug the gap left as older fields dry up, despite the investment that 2008's higher prices encouraged.

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