How does fracking work? – Mia Nacamulli
How does fracking work? – Mia Nacamulli
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Deep underground lie stores of once-inaccessible natural gas. There’s a technology, called hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” that can extract this natural gas, potentially powering us for decades to come. So how does fracking work and why is it a source of such heated controversy? Mia Nacamulli explains the ins and outs of fracking.
Lesson by Mia Nacamulli, directed by Sharon Colman.
Very explained info
thanks a million👍
:20 The earth is only around 6,000 years old; those oil pockets came from the flood (animals and such getting mixed together).
Renewable energy as it stands is a joke is not competitive whatsoever. Maybe in a hundred years from now.
I thought it was a crazy thing made up by the writers in Bojack Horsman
Imagine the endless amounts of constant money the Koch bros are getting for this invention.
people + time + greed + bad ideas = "a new world order" ……. 🙁
The reason we fracture wells is that the shale that contains the natural gas has very small pores in it, in contrast with a more open sandstone. In a conventional formation, the natural gas can flow for several hundred feet to get to the well. In a tight formation, it flows much more slowly. Adding the fractures allows much more gas to flow to the well for much longer, making the well viable. Hydraulic fracturing has been used for about 60 years in other types of wells, but only recently has been applied to natural gas wells. This technique has doubled our recoverable natural gas supply and reduced our greenhouse gas production to below the targets set at the Paris Agreement (I bet you don’t hear that from many climate activists).
Fracking is awesome and cool
If we ban fracking or slow it down, we can expect $5-$7 a gallon for gasoline……..oh wait…….FJB!!!
Thats messed up man.
Better fracking than wind turbines.
Excellent explanation, thank you very much.
Did you show the part where you pollute all the ground water and streams around you for miles?
Great video – thanks.
Wonder why all the droughts are coincidentally where the highest concentration of fracking stations. I mean thousands of stations.
Oh the fracking ?
Thank you for this informative video.
Opening Pandoras box ,and there is no stoping it after starting ????
It usually involves being stationed on a Battlestar, during a time when something bad is happening. Usually cylon related.
Safe .. homegrown, job creating , energy.
So, a video that was supposed to teach me "how does fracking work", which I interpret to mean: how the fracking process physically works, gives me maybe a 2 minute explanation about the process, which boils down to little more than: they dig a really deep hole straight down, make a single turn, inject a gun like drillhead into the hole to create cracks, then power a special mixed water solution into the hole, to expand the cracks, and allow the gas to seep up to the surface.
After this very bare bones explanation ends, they then spend the next two-thirds of the video explaining why fracking is environmentally dangerous.
Umm…well, that kind of pisses me off.
I’m more than happy to learn about the environmental dangers fracking poses, but before that…I want to learn HOW fracking is actually done, by that I mean: I’d like a brief introduction to the history of fracking, why and how the process was invented, why and how it differs from any traditional oil/gas drilling methods, how and why sites for fracking are actually chosen–if there is actually a criteria that is–and of course, HOW THE GAS IS ACTUALLY EXTRACTED!
Like why do these cracks allow the gas to escape? Is the shale rock naturally porous? How is it actually keeping the gas contained? Is the shale for fracking special, or are all shale deposits rich with gas? And how did people discover this? And who or who all figured out the process, and is it a very difficult process, compared to traditional drilling? (Because the video makes it sound incredibly simple.)
By all means include the environmental dangers, too. I want to learn as much as I can, but be honest about the content of the video. If you want to spend most of the time talking about the environmental dangers, then title the video accordingly, please.
Why do they pump arsenic into the ground (water)… And then dump it in the rivers?
Biden like … that’s great ! Now shut it down ! Lol
More BS?
Renewable energy is not renewable, it’s also a joke in any conversation talking about powering modern industrialized societies. See how well it worked out for Germany lol.
Fracking, like climate change, where information is classified as misinformation and vice versa by the media and politicians
Tudo financiado pelos russos…tirem suas conclusões…na Inglaterra foi feita exatamente esta mesma lavagem cerebral…fizeram uma investigação destas ONGs e surpresa! Todos financiados por russos…tá tudo registrado provado e publicado…não precisa acreditar em mim…pesquise por sua conta e reflita…aqui tá cheio disso…acorda ! Antes que seja tarde e todos fiquem dependentes destes monstros oligarcas e nós apenas peão no tabuleiro….
The feds need to open up the wells again and stop fracking. Fracking causes a mammoth amount of damage to surrounding soil and ruins ground water. There is also evidence fracking causes such underground disruption it causes earthquakes. Fracking is the WRONG way to get oil but the governments and our demand for oil are to blame.
Works fine til a liberal potato head gets "elected"
Fracking is amazing
Amazing indoctrination with the cartoons even.
Ok, let’s say the earth is an egg and the earths crust is the egg shell. If one makes tiny cracks in the shell of the egg, eventually the cracks will compromise the integrity of the shell and the egg shell will no longer be able to contain the egg.
Now, some will say that isn’t a good comparison due to the fact that the egg, under its shell, is fluid in its consistency and the earth under its crust is predominantly rock. So let’s repeat the scenario with a hard boiled egg. The shell is cracked to the point that it is unstable, but still retains the contents. However, the contents, now having been exposed are now vulnerable to oxidation, which will speed decomposition, resulting in the entire contents rotting…
just a thought…
it works thru and with poisoning the whole enviroment – everything else is a lie.
good video thank you
Ask Joe; he’s got all the answers. 🤡
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To many mistakes
These"issues" are not real.
you know fracking putting chemicals into the under ground water table will eventually contaminate all underground water , they’re all connected the north west where most fracking occurs is at a higher elevation water will flow down into the rest of the states water tables at lower elevations contaminating them as well
Biased propaganda aiming to demonise the most reliable and most abundant sources of energy (hydrocarbons) in favour of fairytale unreliable so-called renewables.
El ser #humano dice ser el animal racional, los animales irracionales pueden #cohabitar con la #naturaleza y el ser humano ni vivir en #armonía con sus semejantes sabe, destruimos nuestro hogar pretendiendo acumular riquezas, y al morir no podemos llevarnos nada material
FAKE NEWS
Putin thanks this vídeo.
1:29 So in 3 or 4 months Germany can be independent of russian gas.
Congratulations Greta and green activists you do Putin’s dream job!
The earthquakes produced by fracking are only 3rd magnitude, therefore they will barely be felt. The UK has already had 5th magnitude earthquakes, and in medieval times a single 6th magnitude earthquake – those are the ones that might cause damage. The little 3rd magnitude earthquakes do not cause damage.
hey ruth paull
Hi rupaul
and who exactly is ‘us’??? @0:32
So many mistakes in this.
Frack the Planet !