https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2012/02/03/is-the-answer-to-electricity-blowing-in-the-wind/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2012/02/03/is-the-answer-to-electricity-blowing-in-the-wind/#comment-2380 RD Blakeslee Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:00:29 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=4120#comment-2380 Look at the picture above. Then extend it in your mind's eye to include an economically viable number of wind turbines along a mountain ridge. Has anyone thought about the size of the wind turbine footprint, vs. the size of a finished gas well pad? Take a look at the acreages discussed here: http://www.newsreview.com/reno/wind-power-raises-questions-from/content?oid=823833 Also, consider that the picture shows a finished wind turbine installation, while most pictures of gas wells show them under construction. Has anyone actually looked at a wind "farm" under construction? How much heavy equipment do you suppose has to be trucked to the mountaintops and how much bull dozing do you think it takes? Has anyone published a picture of a finished gas well? It's not very newsworthy because there really isn't much to photograph. Look at the picture above. Then extend it in your mind’s eye to include an economically viable number of wind turbines along a mountain ridge. Has anyone thought about the size of the wind turbine footprint, vs. the size of a finished gas well pad? Take a look at the acreages discussed here:
http://www.newsreview.com/reno/wind-power-raises-questions-from/content?oid=823833
Also, consider that the picture shows a finished wind turbine installation, while most pictures of gas wells show them under construction. Has anyone actually looked at a wind “farm” under construction? How much heavy equipment do you suppose has to be trucked to the mountaintops and how much bull dozing do you think it takes? Has anyone published a picture of a finished gas well? It’s not very newsworthy because there really isn’t much to photograph.

]]> https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2012/02/03/is-the-answer-to-electricity-blowing-in-the-wind/#comment-2363 Yuri Gorby Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:34:08 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=4120#comment-2363 Fracking is not clean. The intentional contamination of hundreds of billions of gallons of fresh water with formaldehyde (the active ingredient in embalming fluid), bromide, neurotoxins,...and the incidental contamination with radioactive uranium, radium and alpha-emitters is a very dirty business. The dispersion of those fluids to water treatment facilities, land fills, deep disposal wells, and on roads as deicers is criminal. Support an immediate ban on hydrofracking in your state. Farmers and land owners should be compensated for keeping that resource in its natural storage facility. Judicious use of that resource to support the development of a dynamic but sustainable local and regional economy should be considered. The current plan is pipe this resource south to the Gulf of Mexico and off to China, France and England. Greed has summarily dismissed logic. Fracking is not clean. The intentional contamination of hundreds of billions of gallons of fresh water with formaldehyde (the active ingredient in embalming fluid), bromide, neurotoxins,…and the incidental contamination with radioactive uranium, radium and alpha-emitters is a very dirty business. The dispersion of those fluids to water treatment facilities, land fills, deep disposal wells, and on roads as deicers is criminal. Support an immediate ban on hydrofracking in your state. Farmers and land owners should be compensated for keeping that resource in its natural storage facility. Judicious use of that resource to support the development of a dynamic but sustainable local and regional economy should be considered. The current plan is pipe this resource south to the Gulf of Mexico and off to China, France and England. Greed has summarily dismissed logic.

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