Fracking Bought Five More Years Of Normalcy. Waste or Use?

[cronus]

Peak oil not gone away. The nightmare scenario pushed like a can down the road by five years. How do you plan to spend your luxury time? Become a dull boring prepper? or PARTY?

[Jason]

I heard that it'll be fifty years by the time big oil has expanded their fracking operations as they have planned currently. Of course there's the unsettled issues of poisoning aquifers, causing earthquakes and making sinkholes and stuff, but fracking is part of the US 'green' initiative.

[cronus]

I heard that it'll be fifty years by the time big oil has expanded their fracking operations as they have planned currently. Of course there's the unsettled issues of poisoning aquifers, causing earthquakes and making sinkholes and stuff, but fracking is part of the US 'green' initiative.

It's a accountancy error that's for sure, whilst the finite declining stocks of the large scale true oil production buffet against social and physical constraints that will break the dollar, in a spectacular manner.

[macdoc]

Lots more out there - more's the pity

Quote:
Fire in the hole: After fracking comes coal
13 February 2014 by Fred Pearce

Setting fire to coal underground could answer our energy prayers, or start an environmental disaster on a bigger scale than ever before

IF YOU thought shale gas was a nightmare, you ain't seen nothing yet. A subterranean world of previously ignored reserves is about to be opened up. These are the vast coal deposits that have proved unreachable by conventional mining, along with gas deposits around them. To the horror of anyone concerned about climate change, modern miners want to set fire to these deep coal seams and capture the gases this creates for industry and power generation. Some say this will provide energy security for generations to come. Others warn that it is a whole new way to fry the planet.
more

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...l#.Uv2kz3njP3w

[cronus]

Lots more out there - more's the pity

Quote:
Fire in the hole: After fracking comes coal
13 February 2014 by Fred Pearce

Setting fire to coal underground could answer our energy prayers, or start an environmental disaster on a bigger scale than ever before

IF YOU thought shale gas was a nightmare, you ain't seen nothing yet. A subterranean world of previously ignored reserves is about to be opened up. These are the vast coal deposits that have proved unreachable by conventional mining, along with gas deposits around them. To the horror of anyone concerned about climate change, modern miners want to set fire to these deep coal seams and capture the gases this creates for industry and power generation. Some say this will provide energy security for generations to come. Others warn that it is a whole new way to fry the planet.
more

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...l#.Uv2kz3njP3w

The Earth will become sort of uninhabitable as the full 1.0 on the Kardashev scale is approached. We are in for a scary ride. No guarantee we'll make orbit either. Best button up.