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Thread ID: 127982 2012-11-26 04:22:00 Lets get Fracking Digby (677) PC World Chat
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1314804 2012-11-26 21:26:00 Those are 'swear words', as non of the lately proposed stations/dams would've been able to be build without huge opposition.

Dead right. :thumbs:

Huge Opposition, displaying Huge Ignorance and Huge Stupidity.

The Politicians will stoop to any level to get their vote, and thus keep their own position in Parliament, and we wind up where we are now. :angry
B.M. (505)
1314805 2012-11-26 21:37:00 I've paid extra for sustainable energy before 13c/kWH on top of the usual cost - so I also put my money where my mouth is. Eh.

Maybe you would be good enough Zara to explain what Energy is more Sustainable and indeed cost effective than Hydro?

The only reason other Countries use alternatives is they don't have either the Water or the Fall.

However, New Zealand is blessed and there is no need to look any further.

So why are we? :confused:
B.M. (505)
1314806 2012-11-26 21:39:00 FWIW, B.M., the sustainable energy I paid extra for was Hydro 80%/solar 20%, which is to say, I'm not sure what your question is? Zara Baxter (16260)
1314807 2012-11-26 21:43:00 Whilst I am slightly t do the right and all fro progress, I do think that nuclear power is frightening.

Especially the cost of disposing of the nuclear waste, decommissioning the power stations which seems to cost billions and takes years.
How will poor countries like Bulgaria afford that.
Digby (677)
1314808 2012-11-26 21:50:00 I am NOT a Greenie, but after having read "Hydrofracked? One Man's Mystery Leads to a Backlash Against Natural Gas Drilling (Kindle Single)" by Lustgarten, Abrahm, I am sh1**ing myself in fear that our stupid politicians will follow the god dammed ridiculous Yanks :( :( Zippity (58)
1314809 2012-11-26 21:55:00 No one has mentioned that Taranaki has been 'fracking' for at least 15 years +. Or have i missed it. ? BobM (1138)
1314810 2012-11-26 22:12:00 No one has mentioned that Taranaki has been 'fracking' for at least 15 years +. Or have i missed it. ?
It has been mentioned quite a bit over time in the press.

The odd frack here and there probably wont cause much of a problem, but in the US it's on an enormous frackin scale. and probably that's why significant problems are arising.

I believe water under pressure has been forced down wells into near exhausted fields to bring up oil since way back without problems either.

...and then there is fracking and fracking, In the US it's methane they're after, and as the viscosity is thousands of times smaller than crude, or even light crude as in NZ, then it can be imagined it could flow and seep into all sorts of places, water courses and water supplies, leak into homes etc, so much more easily.
Terry Porritt (14)
1314811 2012-11-26 22:14:00 FWIW, B.M., the sustainable energy I paid extra for was Hydro 80%/solar 20%, which is to say, I'm not sure what your question is?

Now I am confused. :confused:

How/Why did you pay an additional 13c kWh for a 80/20% mixture of Hydro & Solar power? :confused:
B.M. (505)
1314812 2012-11-26 23:17:00 Im all for it. Keeps me employed

EDIT: yes Bob they have
Gobe1 (6290)
1314813 2012-11-26 23:24:00 If we have to frack to get at the gas and the oil, then let the SIS shut up the greenies or opponents some way or another and get on with fracking. Price of diesel is far too high. prefect (6291)
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