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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

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To: knarf

Fuelfix was created by the Houston Chronicle to replace some of the way they did their articles and I believe shares them with other Hearst Papers.

The article can also be found under their business pages:

http://www.chron.com/business/


21 posted on 10/01/2010 10:48:43 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Mr. K
I dont understand... are we running out of water? 2/3 of the planet is covered in the stuff...

A lot of the natural gas and oil shale is located in very dry, arid parts of the country. One of the factors (besides government) limiting the development of these resources is the lack of available water. The ability to reuse water is critical and this, if it works, is a big step forward.
22 posted on 10/01/2010 10:49:10 AM PDT by goldfinch
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To: Psycho_Bunny

What a bunch of felgercarb.


23 posted on 10/01/2010 10:49:21 AM PDT by edge10 (Obama lied, babies died!)
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To: thackney
GE creates device to recycle fracking water

Why those miserable cork-soakers! Those fargin sneaky bastages. I'm gonna take your dworks. I'm gonna crush your boils in a meat grinder. I'm gonna cut off your arms. I'm gonna shove 'em up your icehole. Dirty son-a-ma-batches. THIS IS FARGIN' WAR!

24 posted on 10/01/2010 10:54:27 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The battle lines are drawn: On one side, are Dems and Repubs. On the other, the Tea Party (us).)
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Why those miserable cork-soakers! Those fargin sneaky bastages. I'm gonna take your dworks. I'm gonna crush your boils in a meat grinder. I'm gonna cut off your arms. I'm gonna shove 'em up your icehole. Dirty son-a-ma-batches. THIS IS FARGIN' WAR!

Johnny Dangerously: The name's Dangerously. Johnny Dangerously.
Lil: Did you know you're last name is an adverb?

25 posted on 10/01/2010 11:11:52 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Liberalism can be summed up thusly: someone craps their pants and we all have to wear diapers)
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To: Lorianne
They say that it doesn't contaminate wells and aquifers.

This may resolve the problem with the contaminated water used in the fracking process held in holding ponds.

One of the fears is that the ponds could overflow and contaminate streams and rivers which supposedly has happened.

All in all, sounds like a very good thing. American ingenuity triumphs again.

26 posted on 10/01/2010 11:23:13 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: thackney

Sounds good. Fracking is really taking off here in SW PA.


27 posted on 10/01/2010 11:24:10 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Lorianne

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

Fracking isn’t harmful to water supplies as it is done far away from underground water tables and does not contact them. If you poured frac chemicals into a water supply it would certainly pollute it.

I own mineral rights that have two wells operating at this time. The water table extends down about 700 feet under the surface at the site. The fracking took place at about 5500 feet own and extended about 200 feet up and down from that level.


28 posted on 10/01/2010 11:24:15 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Gone Galt and loving it)
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To: Mr. K

We aren’t running out of water, but dealing with trucking water to a fracking well is expensive.. massive amounts of water are needed to perform the procedure and you have to treat the water after you are done because it is full off all sort of nasty stuff you don’t want seeping into the water table. A mobile device that can cut down on the volume of water needed and to help clean up the waste water generated is a major win.

Now, for the bonus round.. who invented the fracking procedure to begin with?


29 posted on 10/01/2010 11:28:09 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: thackney

This is the first time I’ve ever seen the word “fracking” used correctly in the media. Too funny.


30 posted on 10/01/2010 11:39:26 AM PDT by zeugma (Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam)
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To: HamiltonJay

Stanolind Oil and Gas Company (> Pan American Petroleum Corp > Amoco > BP) developed the process then called Hydrafrac. In 1949 this process was then used commercially by the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company “Howco” under an exclusive license until made available to others in 1953.


31 posted on 10/01/2010 11:54:28 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: HamiltonJay

I knew a college professor that held pneumatic fracturing patents for remediation.


32 posted on 10/01/2010 2:58:03 PM PDT by Rodamala
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