The approach mentioned above needs innovations and inventions in core technology areas such as material sciences, electronics, fluid mechanics, power systems and the like.

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This is a combination of sophisticated steerable drilling technology using modern micro-seismic imaging and advanced material sciences, to create webs of minuscule cracks in shale and release abundant trapped natural gas.

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Corporate clients might be harder to come by but would probably be drawn from sectors that deal with material sciences, particularly engineering or metallurgy, where a low-gravity environment would make possible types of research and production that are impossible or prohibitively expensive on Earth.

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