Posted on 06/28/2016 4:58:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The researchers compiled data from the California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources, which tracks oil and gas wells around the state. Researchers determined if water had been detected while drilling, and also gathered data about depth, salinity and pressure. After looking at 360 oil and gas fields spread across eight counties, the researchers say that they’ve documented a trove of fresh water just over half the size of Lake Michigan hidden in California’s bedrock 1,000 to nearly 10,000 feet below the surface.
This is almost three times more groundwater than what was indicated in previous studies, many conducted over 20 years ago, and which stopped at a depth of 1,000 feet. Water any deeper than that was considered too expensive to retrieve, and could remain out of reach for the foreseeable future. While the survey extended to around 10,000 feet, the researchers say that much of the water lies closer to the surface, around 3,000 feet deep. The researchers published their work Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Tapping into these reservoirs would be expensive, given how deep they are, but could provide a desperately sought-after answer to the water crisis. Doing so may entail curtailing drilling activities in some regions, however, an option that would likely prove unpopular among the many oil and gas companies already operating in the area.
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In record time WITH BOP installed
I liked that series.
drill baby, drill
Dang! You beat me to it!!
Drill in from Vegas! Suck it dry. After all wackoland is going to slide into the ocean anyway!
Yep, I always point to Prop 187 as the tipping point in time.
If we had gotten serious about illegals at that point in time, we could have successfully fixed the issue.
Now it’s too late in my opinion. Yes, we can do a better job of guarding the border and a better job deporting those already here illegally. But we are now 2 generations+ into the invasion now and America is changed forever.
Short of mass deportation California will never again be an American state.
And even then, as you say, it may well be too late.
lol
we are not even allowed to TALK about deportation, much less actually do it!
Same under Tucson. An underground water supply the size of Lake Erie is way down there but it is there.
What is expensive is the energy needed to pump the water out.
Awl $55/barrel, about a buck a gallon.
Water $21/AF, about $0.000065 a gallon.
If you start taking water from it the greenies will complain about earthquakes.
This is impossible. California hit “peak water” years ago. Scientists told us so. They are never wrong. Ever.
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The problem is usually the journalists who report science, not the scientists.
They’ll have to Frack to get it, so enviro nuts say no go..........................
But drilling and pumping out water will trigger massive earthquakes, as will be “proven” by the first tremors that Southern Cal feels after the projects have started.
But you cannot ever use any of the water because there might be a bug living in it that would be endangered if humans touch its habitat.
> Water $21/AF, about $0.000065 a gallon.
Desalinated water has amortized costs around 0.0013 a gallon with state-of-the-art plants, so about 20x more than natural water.
a reminder
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_187,_Illegal_Aliens_Ineligible_for_Public_Benefits_(1994)
Would solve a lot of problems, no?
But then again, without problems, politicians would have nothing to pontificate about.
Submersible pump. All it takes is electricity.
I was going to add the runoff stuff but than gets into all the environauts against humanity stuff. Not enough time.
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