or about 5 swimming pools worth, which in Hollywood is equivalent to 3-4 wells per city block.
or about 5 swimming pools worth, which in Hollywood is equivalent to 3-4 wells per city block.
LOL you’re using pragmatic statistics.
That’s not admissable in the court of the MSM.
...”it takes 127,000 gallons of water to frack a well...”
No. It takes between 3 and 11 million gallons of water to frack a well. In the Eagleford the average is 8 million gal and in the Marcellus it’s 3.5 million.
Then the blowback and produced water gives back 40-60% of that volume that requires treatment/recycling or disposal (by deep well injection).
Water in shale oil is a huge economy: about $37,888,000,000 to supply and treat/dispose in 2014, and growing about 6% annually. More than 80% of the cost is for hauling and disposal.
I can’t see California handling all the tanker traffic and media hype.
And I bet there’s more oil in California that we can imagine.