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GE creates device to recycle fracking water
AP via fuelfix ^ | Oct 1, 2010 | Jillian Cohan

Posted on 10/01/2010 10:06:53 AM PDT by thackney

General Electric Co. is launching a mobile device aimed at helping natural gas drillers recycle water used in a controversial gas drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing. The truck-sized, transportable device would cut down on both the amount of fresh water used and wastewater currently trucked long distances for disposal.

The company’s mobile evaporator would allow natural gas producers to reuse some of the millions of gallons of water used to extract natural gas from dense shale deposits deep underground through the so-called “fracking” process. Water is mixed with chemicals and sand and pumped at high pressure thousands of feet below the surface to create fissures in the rock and release the gas.

Fracking uses a large amount of fresh water and produces billions of gallons of wastewater annually, GE said. The company says its mobile evaporator will cut the volume of wastewater and fresh water needed by between 50 percent and 90 percent by recycling water directly at the well site.

(Excerpt) Read more at fuelfix.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: energy; frac; naturalgas; oil; whatthefrack
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1 posted on 10/01/2010 10:06:58 AM PDT by thackney
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Fracking hope this works...lots of shale out there.


2 posted on 10/01/2010 10:09:14 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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I dont understand... are we running out of water? 2/3 of the planet is covered in the stuff...

We just spent A TRILLION DOLLARS and didnt make any new freshwater treatment plants?????


3 posted on 10/01/2010 10:09:33 AM PDT by Mr. K (GO! PALADINO FOR GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK!)
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To: thackney

Fracking good news!.............


4 posted on 10/01/2010 10:11:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. But he does have him in his MY FAVES.............)
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To: thackney

I don’t want to reuse anything that was involved in fracking.


5 posted on 10/01/2010 10:12:19 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: thackney

“controversial gas drilling process”

Only controversial to the AP and liberal reporters. Been used for years and years all over the world.

Idiots.


6 posted on 10/01/2010 10:12:30 AM PDT by edcoil (No "D's" for me!)
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To: Larry Lucido

Fracking water is the leading cause of wet spots.


7 posted on 10/01/2010 10:13:50 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: thackney

Neither site opens for me


8 posted on 10/01/2010 10:15:31 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: knarf

There is only one site.

Try their home page.

http://fuelfix.com


9 posted on 10/01/2010 10:17:37 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

Damn technology - always solving environmental issues!

What is a primative enviro-communist got to do to force an end to drilling for oil and gas???!


10 posted on 10/01/2010 10:17:49 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: thackney

Intersting, since the nat gas extractors have claimed the fracking process is not harmful to drinking water.


11 posted on 10/01/2010 10:19:11 AM PDT by Lorianne (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ___ George Orwell)
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To: Red Badger

“Fracking good news!”

Sure is! It’s about time they did something about freakin’ frackin’ water!


12 posted on 10/01/2010 10:19:41 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Red Badger
It's about fracking time!
13 posted on 10/01/2010 10:19:58 AM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: Lorianne
This isn't about drinking water, it is about reducing the need to handle/dispose of the water after the Hydraulic Fracturing operation is complete.
14 posted on 10/01/2010 10:22:59 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

We’re gonna find out who watches Battlestar Galactica, on this thread.


15 posted on 10/01/2010 10:23:38 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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To: thackney

Oh, Frack It!


16 posted on 10/01/2010 10:23:54 AM PDT by dfwgator (Texas Rangers - AL West Champions)
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To: knarf

Did that link work for you?


17 posted on 10/01/2010 10:25:53 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney
Holy Fracking Water!


18 posted on 10/01/2010 10:34:41 AM PDT by frithguild (Joe Wilson was wrong when he shouted "You lie!" Obama doesn't just lie - he lies all the time.)
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To: edcoil

That was my first thought as well. Controversial?? By whom? Oh, the globull warming nuts, huh.


19 posted on 10/01/2010 10:36:49 AM PDT by Obadiah (I can see November from my house!)
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To: thackney

no .. I’m looking around my machine to see what’s wrong


20 posted on 10/01/2010 10:40:29 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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