Fracking - something our kids will pay for

[RGR]

Now we must consider thee most extensive use of energy, pumping water. Where will you get the power to pump water?

Please clarify the need for pumping water, related to powering most of the homes in the US with electricity from windturbines?

Getting Water to your house, to your shower, to your bathroom uses the most energy in a home. People state that this Wind Turbine can power a certain number of homes, but that does not include the Department of Water and Power of the city where the home resides.

The Electricity used to pump water is our largest use of Energy in California, that use of Energy is not included in these headlines. Likewise, all these Cities that make wild claims of powering all their homes from Wind Power are not including the public utilities nor heating of homes.

Getting water from the local distribution point to a house isn't usually pumped, hydrostatic head does all the work. Water only has to be pumped when getting it to a point of a hydrostatic head advantage, which is why you see water towers dotting the horizon while driving across the country. So it requires some power to pump it to the water tower...big deal. Good thing that those pumps can run on electricity and be powered by wind turbines just like any other electric motor.

 

[RGR]

Fracking Has Contaminated Drinking Water, EPA Now Concludes
Well we all knew that this was true.

The link is not stating or confirming the claim you just made, the link just states that the EPA has issued a report.

Link to the report, quote and comment on the report, and you might have something to add to this thread.

Simply posting links from Google is a fool's game.

Well Tommy has already proven that!

 

[RGR]

Renewable is the way forward. Fracking will destroy the planet.

I agree, fracking causes earthquakes by forcing polluted water back into the ground, and this polluted water pollute all underground water its near. We have one home, and I can't believe us humans on earth right now are being so selfish and greedy.

Polluted water isn't what is used during hydraulic fracturing, so no, that doesn't work, waste water injection (which can be non-fresh in nature with TDS), isn't hydraulic fracturing, and I can't believe humans on earth right now can be so ignorant of the basic topics they pretend to understand.

 

[RGR]

Done and did...I retired four years ago.

Good for you! So you have arrived at exactly the place where you needed to be, and second guessing at this point is useless. Enjoy retirement, hopefully it allows plenty of enjoyment of life and you have the health to appreciate it.

 

[elektra]

Fracking Has Contaminated Drinking Water, EPA Now Concludes
Well we all knew that this was true.

Tammy uses google like a deck of cards, hey, Tammy, your link is to a story quoting another story stating maybe what the EPA thinks?

Hardly a fact, propaganda is when you link to google links that link to other links that never link to the source or the study.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Fracking shakes the American west: ‘a millennium’s worth of earthquakes’

Nobody wants fracking in the uk apart from the bought and paid for tory government. Even tory members dont want it, at least on their estates. Does it get an easier ride in the US ?

Thanks for reminding us the left are anti science.

 

[Weatherman2020]

All that damn fracking in 1811.

Earthquake Changed Course of Mississippi River | Patch