Microwave Fracking Better than Water and Sand Pressure Fracking?

Me, "It seems that Water Fracking (High pressurized water and sand used to release oil deposits) is on the way out and Microwave Fracking (literally like how a microwave oven works that cooks the oil underground and allows it to seep out of the ground) is on the way in. This is good news for people who complain that their water supplies are being polluted by polluted water. Microwave Fracking does not use water, so polluted water would no longer be a problem for them. Keep a look out in 2017 for this new technology to release even more oil from hard to recover oil deposits and even from present day wells."


From article, "Microwave oil recovery could unlock trillions of barrels of oil and drinkable water from Oil shale and oil sands"

(Peter Kearl is co-founder and CTO of Qmast which is a Colorado-based company pioneering the use of the microwave technology to recover oil. Oil giants BP and ConocoPhillips are pouring resources into developing similar extraction techniques, which can be far less water- and energy-intensive than fracking.

There is more than 4.285 trillion barrels of oil barrels of oil in the Green River Formation (2011 U.S. Geological Survey of resource in-place). Using oil shale cutoffs of potentially viable (15 gallons per ton) and high grade (25 gallons per ton), it is estimated that between 353 billion and 1.146 trillion barrels of the in-place resource have a high potential for development

The idea that a microwave antenna might do the job has actually been around for a while. However, equipment that can create, steer and stabilize the beam was too bulky to fit down a narrow well. Now, designs that will soon make the technology cheap and commonplace are emerging from small outfits, including one Kearl has set up, and from the defense industry.
But just as a ceramic mug in a microwave oven remains cold to the touch while its contents warm up, porous rocks don’t heat up when zapped with microwaves. The trick is that any water trapped in their pores will. If that is mixed up with solid hydrocarbons, the boiling water will heat and liquefy these. The water then turns to steam, and everything can flow through the cleared pores and cracks to be collected at the surface.)