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If you live in an area where fracking is or will be taking place there may be things to consider now or in the future. I sold all my Colorado property before it started and I don't regret it.
The entire question is really how efficient you can get on the storage cycle. And that is a number that is dropping reasonably quickly. I would think viable systems are now in the early lab stage.
So still some years off. Given a factor of two in price and two in efficiency one can pump twice the required electricity at half todays cost. Or four times the electricity at the same cost as today...which is just below the cost of the same service from the utility.
Can we get 33% efficiency in the storage cycle? Maybe. And maybe we need better than that. Then again if the system is hydrogen we get our auto fuel on the side. And that may offset some of the cost.
I don't see this one as solved. But it is not hopeless.
And you cycle the fossil fuel plants out over 50 years. They are the big backup while all this takes place.
And I still have not crossed off nuclear though it may well get buzz sawed by all those roof arrays.
Good point, and investing in technology will only get more expensive. Worst still if China beats us to it.
I know my property value went up as did everyone's around me. My water quality hasn't changed in the 4 years of drilling, I make a good bit of money on royalties. I'm not complaining.
The entire question is really how efficient you can get on the storage cycle. And that is a number that is dropping reasonably quickly. I would think viable systems are now in the early lab stage.
Edit - Said badly. I mean the process is becoming more efficient.
You're missing the point, you wound need capacity and storage 10, 20 or 30 times what you need in that 8 hour period. Whether it's 10, 20 or 30 is dependent on how safe you feel with the length of storage capacity.
I know my property value went up as did everyone's around me. My water quality hasn't changed in the 4 years of drilling, I make a good bit of money on royalties. I'm not complaining.
I know my property value went up as did everyone's around me.
My Brother was looking at a 40 acre property a year or two before this all a started right in the heart of where a lot of the activity is, he never bought it but the value is through the roof now. I rub it in now then when we're having a few.
I know my property value went up as did everyone's around me. My water quality hasn't changed in the 4 years of drilling, I make a good bit of money on royalties. I'm not complaining.
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They just leased 640 acres that adjoins my property..would you be for it if you were me?..no,not for it .
Water table.
as long as its the other guy scenario
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