BS: Los Angeles Farts

Subject: BS: Los Angeles Farts
From: Jack Campin
Date: 28 Dec 15 - 12:41 PM

An environmental catastrophe mostly ignored by the news media:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-we-cant-stop-the-enormous-methane-leak-flooding-la

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exfJ8VPQDTY

There are quite a lot of other reports on it, but none that have been widely circulated. No-fly restrictions, mass evacuations.

Subject: RE: BS: Los Angeles Farts
From: gnu
Date: 28 Dec 15 - 02:02 PM

The sheer quantity of the leak has been compared to the Gulf Oil Spill. Tons per day. Fracking* is a time bomb that is going off slowly all over the world... this is just the tip of the iceberg.

* High volume slick water hydraulic fracturing using horizontal drilling has only been going on for 15 years and it is BAD news. I have been studying it for 3.5 years and it just gets worse. If you are on Facebook, check out the group Frack (and read the "About" or pinned post first).

Subject: RE: BS: Los Angeles Farts
From: Stanron
Date: 28 Dec 15 - 11:39 PM

So why don't they burn the gas to drive a steam turbine to generate electricity? Would that be worse for the environment?

Subject: RE: BS: Los Angeles Farts
From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
Date: 29 Dec 15 - 07:16 AM

Stanron; "So why don't they burn the gas to drive a steam turbine to generate electricity?"

It's a utility company's underground storage facility meant for that and general distribution. The well casing is fractured and the stored, odorized product is escaping below ground then venting to atmosphere. The evacuations are because of the heavier-than-air methyl mercaptan odorant stinking out the nearby suburbs.

The base gas is the same as used for buoyancy by late 19th century captive balloonists so the direct effects will be mostly in the upper atmosphere (global warming.) The drilling and rework will cause more environmental damage at and below ground level than the leak itself. Not much really.

It's not fracking though there is "tertiary" tech working the same field. No matter anyway, it's California. The 1971 San Fernando and 1994 Northridge faults are just a few miles away. The "Big One" San Andreas maybe fifty or sixty.