Its a hard physical task to keep it from leaking—that was my - TopicsExpress

Defeat Dave Brat

Its a hard physical task to keep it from leaking—that was my starting point, he says. Gas is inherently slippery stuff. Ive done a lot of gas chromatography over the years, where we compress hydrogen and other gases to run the equipment, and its just plain impossible to suppress all the leaks. And my wife, who was the supervisor of our little town here, figured out that 20 percent of the towns water was leaking away through various holes. It turns out thats true of most towns. Thats because fluids are hard to keep under control, and gases are leakier than water by a large margin. So he and his colleague Anthony Ingraffea began to investigate. In a paper published in the journal Climate Change in May 2011, they concluded that somewhere between 3.6 percent and 7.9 percent of the methane from fracking wells was escaping into the atmosphere as its made its way from underground to end user. Which is a lot. More than enough, as we shall see, to make fracking worse for climate change than the coal it was replacing. motherjones/environment/2014/09/methane-fracking-obama-climate-change-bill-mckibben

Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:00:00 +0000

Its a hard physical task to keep it from leaking—that was my - TopicsExpress

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