william the wie
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A few days ago a bit of puffery from the fracking industry appeared and disappeared before I could run the numbers so no link to a primary source but here's the facts as best I can reconstruct them with my own commentary.
Most fracking fields are deep enough to be above or near the boiling point of water despite pressures that raise the boiling point of water. (The fields are natural pressure cookers like those used in the Boston Marathon Massacre complete with explosions if water is added.)
Fracking fields have a short life expectancy of 10-15 years. (Pulverizing the underground fields with steam explosions solves this problem quite nicely, It also sets off earthquakes.)
Once the superheated steam reaches the wellhead it can be run through a turbine to produce electricity in a renewable green fashion. (Then if it is run through a condenser the hydrocarbons can be extracted.)
By using floodwaters and snow the wells can keep this up forever as the under ground reservoir keeps growing as a public service.
Most fracking fields are deep enough to be above or near the boiling point of water despite pressures that raise the boiling point of water. (The fields are natural pressure cookers like those used in the Boston Marathon Massacre complete with explosions if water is added.)
Fracking fields have a short life expectancy of 10-15 years. (Pulverizing the underground fields with steam explosions solves this problem quite nicely, It also sets off earthquakes.)
Once the superheated steam reaches the wellhead it can be run through a turbine to produce electricity in a renewable green fashion. (Then if it is run through a condenser the hydrocarbons can be extracted.)
By using floodwaters and snow the wells can keep this up forever as the under ground reservoir keeps growing as a public service.