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CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish. It looks as though the natural
gas boom is here to stay. A new study of the Barnett Shale in
Texas, one of the country's largest natural gas fields, predicts
there is enough gas there to last three decades. And the finding
show how fracking technology has fundamentally changed the
energy picture. Here's NPR's Wade Goodwyn. WADE GOODWYN, BYLINE:
There are few things in life more joyful than discovering a
giant oil or natural gas field in Texas. You're rich beyond your
wildest dreams. When the scope and size of the natural gas
reservoir in the Barnett Shale in North Texas first became
apparent, there were predictions that the find would last 100
years. No, that was over the top. But University of Texas
geology professor Scott Tinker, who designed and authored the
Barnett Shale study, says there's still a lot of gas down there
even after a decade of drilling. SCOTT TINKER: It turns out what
we learned is that there's a lot of g