Posted on 11/02/2011 4:03:45 PM PDT by neverdem
Bad science alert.
Bad science alert.
Correlation is not necessarily causation.
Liberals...you’ll have to look at the math def of correlation...please avoid your normal smarmy wordy mushy liberal arts bull-Obama definitions, please.
We’re talkin’ science here.
Friction from fracking cause fractures.
And Iranians’ pains are mainly from Khomeini.
I can never figure out why thier mothers just didn’t abort them.
The lubricants make the pushing smoother. Less likely severe jolts instead you have smooth sliding.
You said exactly what I was going to post — but, you said it better.
The left is opposed to frackking for oil and gas as it would make the USA reserves as big as the Saudis. The left hates what America is, a shining city on a hill, blessed by God, and will say or do anything to bring us down to a third world malfunctioning state.
>>Fracking is the new global warming for some of these leftist mutts.
That’s probably true; the enviro-nazi’s will grasp onto anything, especially if they can use it to halt oil and gas exploration.
HOWEVER, even if they’re right, and the exploration did CAUSE the quake(s), the oil company should be REWARDED for relieving the earth’s pent-up pressure early, before it did even greater damage naturally on its own.
If it can be proven that fracking causes the earth to release its natural tectonic pressure, we should be doing MUCH MORE of it, not LESS as the enviro-nazi’s would insist.
(Then, quakes would be more often, but smaller, and less damaging)
I actually thought about that myself.
If the quakes aren’t damaging, who cares?
We've fracked over a million times in this country we should be shaking like a bowel of jello by now.
Fracking takes place at depths 6 to 10 thousand feet some deeper some shallower. Earthquakes take place at depths of 70 KM to 700 KM. How heated water would help cause an earthquake at that bid a difference in depth would be miraculous.
If by a miracle, the Pubs regain both houses of Congress and the WH, they ought to undo as many green pieces of baloney as possible and go drill full speed ahead to lower our energy prices, make jobs, and make the nation strong again.
If by a miracle, the Pubs regain both houses of Congress and the WH, they ought to undo as many green pieces of baloney as possible and go drill full speed ahead to lower our energy prices, make jobs, and make the nation strong again.
Anyone taking good science courses in high school or college will immediately recognize this as nonsense. The article did not give the depth of the earthquake, but if if was more than 5 miles deep, then it would be impossible to be caused by the fracking. If it was 5 miles or less deep, then it probably wasn’t an earthquake at all.
Anyone that reads a lot of scientific papers about seismology will instantly recognize this is perfectly plausible.
Small quakes caused by fluid injection have lone been documented and understood.
1.5 mag quake, AKA somebody dropped a coffee cup.
Good point!
Seems to me this technology should be mandatory in known quake areas. Why not immunize an area against “big ones” by fracking a bunch of little ones under (somewhat) controlled conditions. ——— A whole new “green” industry that makes energy at the same time! Halibuton is gonna have a field day setting up franchises.
The U.K. is gonna be ticked they let this slip out.
I remember back in the early 80s an instance of water injection associated with oil drilling causing small quakes. At that time I made the same conclusion as you, that if there was any way to lubricate the San Andreas fault, particularly if we learned to trigger the quake with an impulse (such as an underground nuke), then we should invest heavily in developing the technology. It would mean that we could batten down the hatches, stock up, locate everybody safely, and let it rip. It would be a huge boon to damage control efforts and would significantly reduce the risk to life and limb.
In 1985 I proposed it to the geology professor at Harvey Mudd College, as he had affiliates at CalTech who might take interest in such an idea. He thought it was crazy as nobody would want the liability for the operation. "Acts of God" that operate randomly and potentially kill thousands of people in precarious situations are so much more preferable you know. So I dropped it.
I hate what lawyers have done to this country.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.