Mark wrote: ↑22 Sep 2022, 23:47
johnny wrote: ↑22 Sep 2022, 23:08
Well imagine that. Sounds like someone isn't confident in their ability to build windmills and solar panels in time for folks not freezing this winter, or going bankrupt. Well, it would be quite disturbing to some to freeze to death in the dark when the government could have done something about it.
Rubbish on so many fronts johnny/RGR...
Even if we go ahead today, we wouldn't get any significant gas from fracking for 10 years....
An interesting claim. The US did significant gas production in about 2 or 3. Within 10 we became the world's largest producer I believe. Any reason the UK is less capable when it comes to having good ol' fashion American oil field "get'er done" attitude?
And this boat the UK is in ONLY exists because of what your leaders decided was best in 2019 when they banned a completion technique. So the problem wouldn't be a problem if your government had decided then that security of supply was important, versus outsourcing your energy needs to unreliable others.
Mark wrote:
Wind turbines and solar panels can be installed much quicker, at a lower cost...
Insulation can be done even quicker and at an even lower cost....
And of course, once the decision was made to take away domestic energy security using natural gas, your government ran out and secured all these things so that you wouldn't be...in the pickle you are in now. Oops....guess not. Better luck next "spot it a mile away and 3 years in advance" energy crisis?
Mark wrote:
Any fracked gas wouldn't belong to the UK, so it wouldn't reduce bills, it would only benefit the Gas Companies...
It only wouldn't belong to the UK because your government wouldn't want to nationize it for the citizens? They certainly could if they wanted to. And of course it has to benefit the gas companies, the folks doing a nasty and hard job making sure you don't freeze in the dark don't work for nothing.
Mark wrote:
Fracked gas would also contribute to climate change - guess you're aware that we're in a Code Red emergency...
I am aware. And I am also aware of what the atmospheric CO2 chart atop Mauna Loa says, every day, every month, every season, every year. Humans don't care. We just talk about it a bunch, and do little to nothing collectively to change the trajectory of the data on that chart. And guess what? Do you seriously think that Brits want to freeze in the dark to do their part in saving the climate? This winter? Because your politicians don't seem to think so.
Mark wrote:
Fracking would also use and contaminate vast quantities of water and cause earth tremors...
Fracking requires fresh water, yes, and doesn't contaminate water unless someone is spilling frack fluid all over the place. A hint for the uninitiated in completion operations...you pump it downhole.....usually most of it flows back up...and then you recycle it or pump it into disposal wells. And it is those disposal wells that cause the earth tremors.....
Don't take my word for it when real live experts have already figured it out.
So..I recommend careful injection rules are far more important for induced seismicity issues, now that the UK completion ban has been lifted.
