I have a new New York Post column up today, and it’s about a great idea I have for paying for green tech gambles like Solyndra. Enjoy!
I have a new New York Post column up today, and it’s about a great idea I have for paying for green tech gambles like Solyndra. Enjoy!
A guy whose entire career consists of showing welfare queens how to get free stuff from the government knows a $500,000,000 good bet when he sees one.
there is a Texas oil billioner with the same idea….i forget his name… but i heard him talking about it on the raido. (T boon)
Frank, you can expect a world of hurt — as much hurt as they can cause — from the New York Times. They have an enduring, irrational, unethical hatred for all things involving drilling for clean energy in upstate (where the yokels are too stupid to figgur things out for ourselves). The Times’ rabidness extends so far as to cite a goat farmer as an expert on drilling.
And here’s what all right thinking people need to know about ANWR: It is an oil field potentially capable of delivering 10% of US oil needs from a drilling pad of *4 square miles* in a park the size of South Carolina (30,134 sq/mi).
Alles klar?
Burmashave,
Do you know anything about hydrofracking? I know it’s been legalized almost completely in my PA while NY has deemed it unsafe. I have heard that some dairy farmers upstate are concerned about whatever chemicals the oil companies use in their mixtures. While I am more likely to take the side of a dairy farmer in most disputes (cows give us milk and butter; cows are a friend like no udder), I am also not a crazy person and I will thus not complain until I have some grasp of the facts.
Yup, we’ve literally got mountains of natural gas under us; however, we’ve also got a bunch of liberals who are scaring the population from a proven safe means of extraction. (hydrofracking) This isn’t about drilling for them. It’s hysteria ginned up by opposition to affordable energy.
Meanwhile, there are boom towns less than 25 miles from here while I sit in one of the most economically depressed areas in the US.
Which county are you in, Burma? From what I’ve seen in my exposure to the Genesee Valley, counties like Allegany and Wyoming are Republican and poor and something tells me Albany doesn’t care about doing anything to help broke Republicans
I didn’t read Frank’s article. What does he propose, nuclear hydrofracking?
Waaaaaait….
Ok, now I read it. No nuking for oil? What the frack is this, Frnak?
Ooooo NNOOOOOes! Fracking is teh eeevill!!11!!
Marko, this may be long for an IMAO post but it’s important. Fracking is the last thing you do when you ‘complete’ a well. Before there was hydrofracking we’d send down a little torpedo with shaped charges to split the rock and increase flow. (So the nuke idea is not far off…)Nobody complained then. And yes, hydrofracking has been used to complete oil wells in Texas since the sixties.
The eeevilll fracking fluid recipe is tweaked for each formation but is basically
* 93% water
* 6% clean fine sand (to prop the cracks open once they’re split)
* and the remaining 1% may include some detergent, antiseptic (to stop nasty things growing), methanol or some other solvent, etc. Yes, you could probably drink the stuff if you didn’t mind the sand.
As far as anything getting out into the ground water, if you drill a 5,000 foot well the first 4,990 vertical feet are lined with a steel and concrete casing. That’s not only so you only split the last few feet of the well with the enormous water pressure, but so the oil or gas you do bring out doesn’t end up leaking out before it gets to the surface.
University of Texas Petroleum Extension school (PETEX) has some good teaching materials.
But none of that is going to overcome 2 generations of anti-industrialist indoctrination. Sigh. Time for another bourbon, I guess.
Thanks, jj. And for future reference, don’t worry about post lengths here. We usually write a few sentences, true, but the more, the merrier.
How fracking works – Fears are based on ignorance
By KAREN MOREAU
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/how_fracking_works_cKSUVaVvWedFdqfvNQ2q7H#ixzz1au2Sh17v
Over to you, Andrew
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/over_to_you_andrew_QmPQ4ImEyg0XIe94KilwnJ
Marko, I’m in Broome County.
Thanks for the details, jj. The hysteria around hydrofracking makes me want to cry. We’re dealing with deposits of clean naural gas sufficient to supply all US needs for 2 full years.
On the other hand, we have the NYT leading the hysteria band wagon — often in the form of ouright blatent lies.
On the other, other hand, we have Frank J. as the voice of hippie punchers everywhere.
I don’t want to have anything to do with something called “Fracking” if it has been proposed by Marko! I think my butt will hurt when the procedure is done and I’m not down with that!
Why is Mother Earth all spoiled and such by a substance that comes from Mother Earth? I’m confused? That’s so stupid it would be like saying we don’t put salt on our streets to keep it out of the ocean…oh…wait, we have done that! Sorry, I get it now or something!!!
Cry, I will. My hometown was an economic powerhouse for 100 years until 1990. Now, we’re an economic wasteland.
By contrast, I was riding through northern Pennsylvania this summer and I stopped by a diner restaurant in a town no bigger than a crossroads. Nevertheless, the restaurant was newly remodeled and busy despite the fact that it was past lunch hour. There were about 6 employees that I could see.
Don’t believe Coumo about permitting drilling. He’s declared large areas off limits, and I’m sure the DEC approval process will be modeled on the Obama method.
Hydrofracking? Isn’t that somethin you do in a hottub with your girlfriend?
Don’t worry USSJC; it doesn’t hurt if you sit in the hot water for 5 minutes before and after.
LOL – A guy whose entire career consists of showing welfare queens how to get free stuff from the government knows a $500,000,000 good bet when he sees one.
Love it! keep it up guys.
// Al
What the frack is this? I expectd Frank to advocate for atomic anti-matter powered homes and cars. Anti-matter, good, clean energy.
And yes, another smart and funny column that will soar over the heads of any enviromentalists reading it because Frank has an IQ higher than a Walmart rent-a-freezer.