EPA Report That Lowers Methane-Leak Estimates Further Divides Fracking Camps 127
gmfeier writes "The EPA has significantly lowered its estimate of how much methane leaks during natural gas production. This has major implications for the fracking debate, but puts the EPA at odds with NOAA. From the article: 'The scope of the EPA's revision was vast. In a mid-April report on greenhouse emissions, the agency now says that tighter pollution controls instituted by the industry resulted in an average annual decrease of 41.6 million metric tons of methane emissions from 1990 through 2010, or more than 850 million metric tons overall. That's about a 20 percent reduction from previous estimates. The agency converts the methane emissions into their equivalent in carbon dioxide, following standard scientific practice.'"
Re:What 2 camps? (Score:2, Informative)
It's imminently storable, but it's not eminently storable. You have no concept of the magnitude of power used in the western world. It's just not plausible with current technology to store enough solar energy for use overnight. There are also some severe scale problems with replacing diesel vehicles with electricity. Large numbers are a bitch, and physics still wins.
Re:Less methane? So fracking what? (Score:5, Informative)
The chemical that they use in fracking is well know. It is very dangerous...
Oh yeh, the chemical they pump into the ground that my friend delivers is commonly known as dihydrous-oxide..
Bull. Fucking. Shit. They add all sorts [wikipedia.org] of chemicals [fracfocus.org] into that water before they pump it into the ground.