Climate Change will not bring about our end~~ but this will"""""""""""/\

[Silhouette]

I am talking about reality. Whatever the dangers, and there are many, of fracking, it will be done as long as there is a good profit to be made by the multinationals. The only way to prevent that is to develop our renewable resources, and get on with creating the cheap batteries that will power EV's, auto's, pickups, and semi's.

You probably are like one of the engineers who counseled Japan, sitting on the world's third largest reserve of geothermal steam turbine potential, to turn to nuclear power instead. So what if the reactor has melted into the groundwater at Fukushima and the Pacific Ocean is essentially off limits for food now...as long as the technology made some folks rich for awhile. Does getting rich mean that the entire earth and its life forms have to be poisoned? Or are you OK with taking your money out of stocks for fracking and instead investing in linear solar thermal arrays or geothermal? How selfish can people be...is the question I'm asking here...?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Well, the climate will change with our actions much more quickly than it would otherwise. And in the opposite direction as it would otherwise.

As for oil, it is a rather valuable resource to simply take out of the ground and burn.

We have the ability to build cheap sodium batteries. There is ample energy for our purposes in wind and solar alone to power our industry, homes, and automobiles. Libya and the rest of the desert nations have a gold mine in solar. They can look ahead and invest accordingly, or look back and remain third world.

Well, the climate will change with our actions much more quickly than it would otherwise. And in the opposite direction as it would otherwise.

It would be getting colder?
Ice ages suck, burn more coal!

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Known reserves that require some expensive technology to process. As you increase the price per barrel, the amount of reserves increase. At a certain price, even the oil shales can be considered reserves. However, factor in the cost of climate change, and we cannot afford what we are burning now.

You're talking about pumping carcinogenic toxic solvent sludge in, around and near fractile capillary action by our last underground fresh water aquifers. ie: "Fracking"?

Go FRACK yourself if that's your solution...

You're talking about pumping carcinogenic toxic solvent sludge in

You mean sand and water?