During tonight’s national coverage fracking was a topic brought up on multiple occasions. Can someone explain what it is and the pros and cons of it? Need it because a google search did not help :/
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Fluids and sand is pumped into downhole formations in the ground at extreme pressures. The fluids flow back to the surface but the sand expands the formations where gas is stored and allows the gas to flow into the well, thus increasing production.
I knew a guy who worked on a fracking site One year. He was a tough looking hard working guy, but really nice. He said he would never do it again, he felt horrible about it.
Imagine you have a really deep hole with some something you want in it, you can’t reach it by yourself, but if you full the hike with water maybe it’ll float to the top. That’s kind of what fracking is. They take drinking water, and shoot it down into the hole really hard and fast to try to get out or gas or whatever they want to come loose and come out.
The main bad thing about it is that all that water gets really really toxic and polluted and not only is it a waste of good water, but then it just goes into a river or steam or lake and not only can kill things that live there but also gets into the drinking water fruit everyone in the area and down stream.
It’s also bad because it’s still burning fossil fuels are the end of the day which pillow the air and mess up the climate
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