Do you think fracking is bad?

[historectomy]

I know it is slippery but I wanna know some others opinions

Yes

No

[RingOfFire]

Fracking is only bad if you don't mind living in a cave with no heat and no electricity.

Energy has to come from somewhere and this "Green Energy" scam has not produced. Based on currently known technologies, it is absolutely impossible to produce enough energy for 350 million people, not to mention the new demands for energy to power AI with any known technology that doesn't include either fossil fuels or nuclear.

In the real world as it exists today, fracking is an important part of that equation. We should not even consider abandoning technologies that work, like fracking, for technologies that don't work. That's national suicide.

That doesn't mean we can't continue to try to develop more clean energy sources and continue to produce energy that is as clean as possible. But to abandon fossil fuels before we have a replacement is not only foolish it's the end of our existence.

[adventurous-1]

fracking is damaging, the very act is destroying the integrity of the earths crust and that damage is accumulating and going to have an effect that we didn't foresee, in time I afraid its adverse effect will become evident but the damage will have been done. How do you repair that damage? We don't know what's going to happen years from now but we're doing it anyway due to greed. I may be wrong but I just have a bad feeling.

[asarjam]

No, in the US we have the cleanest energy anywhere. From a religious perspective, the world does not end from an environmental calamity, so no worries about some future environmental apocalypse.

Be good stewards of the land, work towards clean solutions, but fracking for now is fine.

[Syntosi]

Several countries already have 100% clean energy today. USA does not. Claiming that USA has the cleanest energy anywhere is absurd.

Also I think the religious argument is complete bullshit.

[asarjam]

@Syntosi Gotcha on religion, but you'll have to provide some context - what country provides 100% of their energy as "clean" and also provides all of the energy they need for domestic consumption. I did not know that unless they are using nuclear, which of course must store the waste. But interested in hearing it. There are several listed on Google, but none of those top 5 achieved that goal without rolling blackouts througout the year.

[Syntosi]

I think Norway is the best example of a country that has 100% renewable energy.

Hydro power: 89.6%
Wind power: 9.1%
Solar power: 0.0~%
Thermal power: 1.2%

No gas, no coal and no nuclear. Also have not heard of any energy problems in Norway but I admit I have not looked into that too much. I doubt it though, they are a filthy rich nation so could easily solve any national problem on that scale simply by throwing money at it until the problem went away.

[asarjam]

@Syntosi Thank you for the reply!

[mistymidnight]

I think it’s really funny more men say no cuz fracking is so bad the machine that dose it litterally looking like it’s committing sexual assault to the poor earth like an oil rape machine but I guess men wouldn’t see the bad in that lmao

[FreyaRed]

Chemicals used by fracking to dissolve rock are nasty, risk of contaminated groundwater is very high. Especially by shallow fracking. Of course 3-4km deep it doesn't really matter

[Staximus]

One of my friends lived in Wyoming for a while and there is a lot of contaminated ground water out there from fracking. People and animals can no longer drink that water and you can't water your crops with it

[malarkey]

Why wouldn't the water be usable? If there is natural gas in the water you just need to put it in a settling tank first. At atmospheric pressure the natural gas would rise out of the water into the air due to low density. When it comes to other hydrocarbons found in crude oil like benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene, etc. you can oxidize them by pumping ozone gas through the water with an ozone generator and air pump. For example the chemical reaction for benzene would be:

C6H6 + 11 O3 —> 6CO2 + 3 H2O + 11 O2

The ozone turns the benzene into water and carbon dioxide. The Carbon dioxide would gradually rise out of of the water as well as would the oxygen gas (O2) just leaving you with water. It's basic chemistry.

[Staximus]

@malarkey that's great but it's not going to remove the contamination from the soil which will continue to contaminate the water. Do you think everybody is going to have some massive and expensive water decontamination equipment at their house for their well? You're not living in reality.

[QuietRunner]

Once the technology is used to create Geothermal power wells, then fracking will be considered a helpful step in the transition to energy independence and security for nations of the world.

We may still need petroleum products for some time, but as a fuel source those days are decreasing

[malarkey]

It's bad for the water quality of the fluid that is pumped into the ground and due to the seismic activity that is occasionally created, but overall it's not the end of the world.

[AviatorTom]

When done correctly, fracking is fine. Problem is, some companies take shortcuts, which can cause ground settling and mini-earthquakes.

[exitseven]

if done correctly is is okay. The problem in when the oil companies decide to cut corners.

[Dargil]

No but there are rare occasions been it might be a geologically bad idea.

[KostasKouvalis]

Probably, but I think the economic benefits outweigh the environmental impacts

[SweetDripp]

I think the pros far outweigh the cons.

[pinkCadillac2]

What other choice is there?

[Anonymous]

It has been proven to be bad. So, Yes.

[Anonymous]

What is that?

[emeraldsaphire]

It's an oil drilling technique. Normally you drill for oil vertically, but with Fracking you can angle it. It's amazing way to get access to oil we couldn't before. That being said some people have concerns about the ecological effects

[SweetDripp]

@emeraldsaphire It's more than slant drilling. It's injecting high pressure water/sand to fracture (fracking) the shale rock trapping oil and natural gas. Fracturing the rock allows extraction of oil and natural gas that isn't accessible through traditional drilling methods.

[captain_voidwalker]

Fracking is fine