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Catastrophic Ohio Methane Leak Stayed Hidden Until a Satellite Found It
Started this discussion. Last reply by Brett Jan 11, 2020. 7 Replies 0 Likes
Recent news story: "A blowout in Ohio made little news in 2018, but satellite images show it was a major global event. A little-noticed 2018 methane leak at an Exxon Mobil site in Ohio was one of the…Continue
Post-Gazette series: public health & fracking
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“A gas compressor station operates on a hillside 1,600 feet from their homes. A shale-gas well, drilled and fracked in 2010, sits just 500 feet away, atop a ridge above their properties. The well pad…Continue
childhood cancer and fracking
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Gov. Tom Wolf asked to investigate possible link between PA fracking, childhood cancers"More than 100 organizations and 800 individuals have signed a public letter to Gov. Tom Wolf calling on him to…Continue
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solar+batteries starting to beat gas
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Climate ChangedBatteries and Gas: Frenemies of the Power World Face Off"It was only three years ago that natural gas overtook coal to become king of America’s power mix, and its throne is already…Continue
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Brett replied to Paul Heckbert's discussion 'Catastrophic Ohio Methane Leak Stayed Hidden Until a Satellite Found It'william Allen. Ladd replied to Paul Heckbert's discussion 'Catastrophic Ohio Methane Leak Stayed Hidden Until a Satellite Found It'"We do need a bit of humor in these postings once in awhile. But fact remains, human beings need to be very careful of what we do concerning of how and what we do that could change our survivability! "IE", Medical…"
DESJR replied to Paul Heckbert's discussion 'Catastrophic Ohio Methane Leak Stayed Hidden Until a Satellite Found It'"I live in Ohio, Might have just been my gas release. Bean soup season!!!!"
william Allen. Ladd replied to Paul Heckbert's discussion 'Catastrophic Ohio Methane Leak Stayed Hidden Until a Satellite Found It'"This is the reason we have to be so very careful with developing new industries. Human beings simply do not know what they might release in the way of their endeavors......be it gas or oil exploration or new processes in the chemical or…"
Brett replied to Paul Heckbert's discussion 'Catastrophic Ohio Methane Leak Stayed Hidden Until a Satellite Found It'"So that's why the sunsets have been so spectacular lately. lol
A major event that now one noticed. That makes a lot on sense."
Robert Bond replied to Paul Heckbert's discussion 'Catastrophic Ohio Methane Leak Stayed Hidden Until a Satellite Found It'"I have heard that the biggest and most abundant green house gas is water vapor. Sure hope we never run out of this particular green house gas."
Catastrophic Ohio Methane Leak Stayed Hidden Until a Satellite Found It
Recent news story: "A blowout in Ohio made little news in 2018, but satellite images show it was a major global event. A little-noticed 2018 methane leak at an Exxon Mobil site in Ohio was one of the worst in recent memory, outpacing the methane emissions from the entire oil and gas industries of many countries. The blown well was pumping 132 tons (120 metric tons) of methane into the atmosphere every hour, give or take 35 tons (32 metric tons). That's nearly double the rate of a much more…See More
"On the rise: Solar farms begin cropping up in Western Pennsylvania
https://triblive.com/local/regional/on-the-rise-solar-farms-begin-cropping-up-in-western-pennsylvania/"
Bullfrex replied to Paul Heckbert's discussion 'solar+batteries starting to beat gas'"Paul,
Quoted from the article....."Solar and Storage make sense"....and making sense is a far cry from being economically feasible and/or practical.
20 years ago.....Nuclear Fusion power made sense....and now is projected to be…"
David Perotto replied to Paul Heckbert's discussion 'solar+batteries starting to beat gas'"Apparently you didn't read this paragraph in this article:
Gas Remains Far, Far Ahead
To be sure, gas has a tremendous lead. The U.S. added 23 gigawatts of new gas-fired power plants capacity last year -- the highest in at least a…"
solar+batteries starting to beat gas
Climate ChangedBatteries and Gas: Frenemies of the Power World Face Off"It was only three years ago that natural gas overtook coal to become king of America’s power mix, and its throne is already being challenged -- by batteries.As battery costs fall, solar farms are increasingly installing storage systems, allowing them to sock away cheap electricity by day and pump it onto grids at night. Solar-storage projects are already cheaper than gas plants to build in the U.S. Southwest. And that’s…See More
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Jack Young said…
If an injection well leaks into an aquifer that's a mistake that the operator and the regulators missed. This sort of thing happens frequently with underground gasoline tanks, yet nobody asks for a moratorium on driving our cars. The difference is that any political moves that inappropriately slow down the development of natural gas will mean that more coal gets burned thus contributing to global warming in a way that no impartial research suggests natural gas can match. Not to belabor the point, but an old friend who is in upper management at a large conservancy has told me he considers the anti-gas movement "the biggest threat to the global environment" at present. But he can't say this publicly because they all depend on donations and are aware of what happened to the Wilderness Society when they tried to tell people the straight story. So if you love the environment like I do, you really ought to do a little more research before calling for drilling moratoriums.
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