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It looks as though there are rumblings underground daily of what might become actual earthquakes
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Fracking and Scotland has always been a odd one but it is not banned.. they just don't want to do it.
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For information - the Richter scale - note 1 and 2.
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The largest associated with the Lancashire fracking 2.3
The largest earthquake in the wider Lancashire NorthWest area - April 2009 Ulverston 3.7, Blackpool in the Irish Sea May 2011 3.3 and Kirkby Stephen 4.1 in August 1970 (and I remember that one shaking my childhood house near Windermere) and Longtown 4.7 in Dec 1979/ The biggest in the UK in the last 50 years was 5.4 in Gwynned in 1984
So let's get this in perspective, tremors from fracking are minimal in terms of potential damage. Coal mining has triggered more intense ones. So, no fracking, we are happy being dependent long-term on Russian and Qatari gas imports for our cookers, hearing and tricity gen - me thinks not.
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The largest associated with the Lancashire fracking 2.3
The largest earthquake in the wider Lancashire NorthWest area - April 2009 Ulverston 3.7, Blackpool in the Irish Sea May 2011 3.3 and Kirkby Stephen 4.1 in August 1970 (and I remember that one shaking my childhood house near Windermere) and Longtown 4.7 in Dec 1979/ The biggest in the UK in the last 50 years was 5.4 in Gwynned in 1984
So let's get this in perspective, tremors from fracking are minimal in terms of potential damage. Coal mining has triggered more intense ones. So, no fracking, we are happy being dependent long-term on Russian and Qatari gas imports for our cookers, hearing and tricity gen - me thinks not.
straight question/straight answer.....I saw my first presentation on global warming back in 1989 - and a lot of it came out of MT's think tank on renewables and headed up by Chris Patten - a lot of their rationale and the numbers then was to find methods to counter being held to ransom by Scargill et al.
it was, sapht, you are forgetting one thing, the learning curve (and hence cost curve) of new technologies - and now these (wind and solar) are taking bite...and its about cost competitiveness versus other fuels. And when I say cost competitivenss, I also mean technology breakthroughs are needed - wit, bio-ethanol fuels from waste crops, diesels from algae and hydrogen (the storage thereof on board - and just this week an example where it's economic for rural German trains but not yet for a car). Furthermore, most energy depts in Government want a diverse base of supply to ride through market blips etc. Fracking is one of these - with oil northwards of $60/bbl (allowing for crude specs/quality), it starts to payout.
so what's wrong with large scale wind or solar, togo....though I accept that as M.of Energy, I wouldn't want to be totally dependent on them. Hydrogen is the future when they find a way to hold it in storage without it leaking through the container..lead really the only way at the moment but then one pays with cost (and weight) and the environment....the wild card there that is needed perhaps lies with nano-silica technology. After all, it took 50 years for the gasoline engine to make its breakthrough in the 1930s - the wildcards being Henry Ford finding a way to make cars cheaply and the oil cos how to safely and economically separate or crack out gasoline from the distilled crude barrel. Fracking's breakthrough was how to accurately go for horizontal drilling - back in the 90s....
