In this essay “Beyond Fracking,” Pearce Fred delivers a rich of information about “The next energy revolution could be fired by coal literally. Can we afford the risks, asks Fred Pearce”. He begins by briefly outlining the situation of subterranean world-rich unreachable coal and gas, the quarrel broke out between the people who had different ideas and the potential advantages and disadvantages of capturing these vast resources. Pearce then continues on to describe what UCG (underground coal gasification) is, the history of development of capturing technology of UCG, and what future it does have. Additionally, he introduced two safely ways of exploration and extraction underground resources