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Fracking was done on a smaller scale early on. Massive hydraulic fracturing as it's referred only began in the 70's. Moreover, your argument is illogical. Just because something has been done for a while doesn't mean it's good.
Fracturing is not being blamed for earthquakes, disposal wells are.
The simple fact is that if disposal wells cause an increase in earthquakes, then the increase in earthquakes would've happened shortly after SWDs began operation.
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Originally Posted by Litefoot
Fracking could be why a lot of lakes are drying up also.......
Lets say you have 10 bowls, fill the top one with water, set off and explosion in the bottom bowl and the other 9 bowls crack and the water goes where? Same as fracking when you set off and explosion under ground, the lower level breaks up and the rest just kinda crack and sag and the water goes where???
FYI, a frac job doesn't involve explosions - it's fluid (water or gel) being pumped under very high pressure. Also, fracturing doesn't open up an entire formation, it only affects a small area surrounding the wellbore.
If the "bowl" hypothetical were true, then:
1. surface cracks would be visible
2. groundwater would leach down into the oil-bearing formations, and we'd be hearing about how the aquifers are drying up.
3. Rock quarries wouldn't be able to perform surface blasting as part of their operations.
We need to realize as a country we have a big sustainability problem.
I don't think that's an issue at all, clearly there is a huge amount resources available. For the rest of the world in particular Europe, China and India that is another matter.
Oil may be an issue but there is alternatives to that too, you can make diesel from coal. For that you can even use the low quality coal that is often waste or not mined at all. For that you can actually make electric and liquid fuel in co-gen facility greatly increasing effciency. The reason there has been no private investment is the same issue the oil fracking industry is facing with OPEC dumping product on the market.
Fossil fuels will go away but in the meantime there is plenty of supply to meet demands here in the US for a long, long time. The coal supply itself represents the single largest amount of fossil fuel energy held by any nation. What is known to exist and can be feasibly mined is about a 150 year supply adjusted for increased usage etc. That is a guaranteed supply with no questions asked, the unknown is most likely much more than that.
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I don't think that's an issue at all, clearly there is a huge amount resources available. For the rest of the world in particular Europe, China and India that is another matter.
Oil may be an issue but there is alternatives to that too, you can make diesel from coal. For that you can even use the low quality coal that is often waste or not mined at all. For that you can actually make electric and liquid fuel in co-gen facility greatly increasing effciency. The reason there has been no private investment is the same issue the oil fracking industry is facing with OPEC dumping product on the market.
Fossil fuels will go away but in the meantime there is plenty of supply to meet demands here in the US for a long, long time. The coal supply itself represents the single largest amount of fossil fuel energy held by any nation. What is known to exist and can be feasibly mined is about a 150 year supply adjusted for increased usage etc. That is a guaranteed supply with no questions asked, the unknown is most likely much more than that.
There's not enough oil considering how much we use, how much the rest of the world uses, and what it would take to get all of it.
How many of our mountains would need to be blasted away to get all that coal?
In what ways? Do you understand what it would require to extract all of the coal in Appalachia? All of the tar sands in the Midwest? We need to come up with real solutions to our problems not go down the path of destroying what we have.
Including other (unproved) sources, the best estimates are that we have 134 billion barrels total. That's a 20 year supply at current consumption rates if we attempted to use only our own oil.
I'm assuming that fracking caused the earthquake on Mt. Everest too ? Or maybe it was global warming. Hard to tell.
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