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What The Frack
Fracking is the catch word for hydrolic fracturing. Essentially, it’s the process used by the energy to extract carbon based energy products like petroleum and, in particular, natural gas from the earth. The idea is to drill down to the depth of a natural gas reservoir and then inject a highly pressurized liquid with the intention of creating cracks in the rock that give the gas new pathways to get to the drilled hole, to the surface, and ultimately to gas pipelines.
Hydrolic fracturing has been around for a while. It’s often used to restore water to wells that have gone dry. But the fracking for water wells is done at a much much lower scale than the fracking done by the energy industry.
So whats the fracking problem?
You’ve probably seen commercials on TV from the natural gas industry telling you that fracking was a good thing because it would mean a bunch of jobs and greater energy independence… sort of the “drill baby drill” argument. Not everyone agrees with that point of view. There are two serious concerns in the scientific community.
The United States Geological Survey has documented a few earthquakes that have been induced by fracking in Japan, Canada and the USA.
There is concern that the chemical used in the fracking process are finding their way into drinking water. High levels of methane and carcinogens in well water have been found, but there has been debate in the scientific community about whether this is the direct effect of fracking and whether the problem was really sub-standing fracking operations.
The fracking truth
Well, it seems that The New York Times has been doing its homework about fracking and has released a rather eye opening article about the lax government regulations about and significant dangers of the fracking practice. Bottom line… it’s dangerous, the industry is not self-regulating and the government is not doing much in the way of regulation.
Read the article by clicking here.
To Be Or Not To Be
According to a lot of folks, we are about to have a celestial observer designated as C/2010 X1 and with the more friendly name of Elenin. This deserves attention for two reasons. First, it looks like it’s coming very close to Earth. Second, it appears to be very big. Here are the details.
The closest Elenin will come to earth is about 21 million miles. On the celestial scale, that’s close enough to shake hands, but unlike some claims, it’s definitely not predicted to hit the earth. Good news! What’s more interesting is it’s size. There are some blogs claiming it is 80,000 km (50,000) miles in diameter. That would be the observable size, the core of the comet would be significantly smaller, but still large enough to be of concern. I haven’t been able to get an estimate of the core size from a credible source, but it does appear to be pretty big.
I want to give you two points of view on this. The first video is interesting because it shows the path of the comet through the solar system. It’s a bit hokey because it claims that the comet is actually a dwarf star, and there is no credible evidence for that at all. Watch the video to see the doomsday claims of major earthquakes and take note of just how close the comet is approaching.
The next video is from a researcher at NASA. A Google shows that he is who he claims. So, here are the words of a “rocket scientists”. The thing to take note of is that this video was published on YouTube prior to the discovery of Elenin by a Russian astronomer. The important point is that if Elenin really is as big as claimed, there should have been noticable gravitation effects for some time.
The thing about this, is that you have to take both videos with a grain of salt. I will be updating information as more comes in about our newest space visitor.
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There is a very strange thing happening in our country. People believe that the economy, which is a total abstract concept in people’s heads, to be more real than the physical world. They believe that the economy is getting stronger or weaker, that the US Dollar is rising or falling, and that the market is bullish or bearish like all that is something more tangible than an agreement about how beans are counted. On the other hand, the same people think that the real changes in the physical world like glaciers melting are just “the theory of global warming.” Unfortunately, people are going to get a rather rude shock when they realize that it is the physical world and not the economic mind-space that really matters.
So, let’s just assume that we need to do something real to prevent global warming in the real physical world. The science is clear that what we need to do is reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. Well, one alternative is the nuclear alternative.
It’s overwhelmingly clear that there are some serious concerns about traditional nuclear power generation. Witness the recent disaster in Japan. However, there are some interesting alternatives, and one of the more interesting comes from Chicago entrepreneur Lewis Larsen, president of Lattice Energy. He plans to build a device that is about the size of a convection or microwave oven. According to Larsen, two of these devices could supply all the heat and electric needs of a 3,000 square foot home. And it does that without greenhouse gases, radiation, or nuclear waste.
What’s interesting is that this is based on low-energy nuclear reaction theory, also called LENR. This is a form of what is commonly called cold fusion. Cold fusion is generating energy from fusion reactions without requiring temperatures found in hydrogen bombs or the sun. Cold fusion is the holy grail of energy production, and like the holy grail has been extremely elusive. In fact in 1989 there was what some people call a cold fusion hoax that has be the source of a tremendous amount of skepticism and negativity.
Larsen believes that he has found a real cold fusion technology, but at this point it is mainly theoretical. He needs investors to help him build a prototype, and they are very hesitant because of the 1989 hoax. For more information about this interesting possibility for in-home energy production look at the following links.
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