Natural gas

that? Well, hydraulic fracturing, or the so-called fracking, is the process of drilling down into the Earth, then using high pressure water to break open the rocks, to release the natural gas inside, but there’s a problem. Water, sand, and chemicals are also injected along with high pressured water into the rocks. The gas comes right out of the head of the fracking well, but where do the chemicals and contaminated water go? It goes into underground water, lakes, rivers, etc.. What happens next?…

Biofuels: Are they the Future? Everything humans need come from our planet whether it is food, water, metals or fuels. It has been determined that if we use up any one of these resources then we will be without forever. Fossil fuels, coal, oil, and natural gas are non-renewable resources. Formed from plant and animals that lived up to 300 million years ago, fossil fuels are found in deposits deep beneath the earth. The fuels are burned to release the chemical energy that is stored within…

Coal seam gas (CSG), also known as coal bed methane (CBM), is a naturally occurring methane gas found in most coal seams. The extraction of CSG involves drilling wells into the coal seams and bringing water from the seams to the surface. This process reduces the pressure in the seams and allows the gas to be released from pores (Lacey and Lamont, 2014). The growing environmental and health risks associated with coal seam gas fracking production has the potential to generate considerable gas…

to extract gas. Shale gas is abundant in the United States, which could mean energy independence. The amount of natural gas in the United States is equivalent to two amounts of oil in Saudi Arabia's. However, this process raises concerns, health concerns in particular. The luxury of drinking water out of the tap has been taken away from communities where fracking has hit. The economic benefits of fracking do not outweigh the health consequences communities may face. Fracking for shale gas may…

dilemma. I will be using the fracking dilemma to present my argument and example. Natural gas from shale has been a very active subject in the western region. Many residents are complaining that the fracking can affect the underground water and cause earthquakes. The energy companies and government agencies are giving the people an option to have either cheaper gas or clean water. If the public decides to have cheap gas they have to let this energy companies to perform fracking practices in the…

Hydraulic fracturing is basically drilling into large shale fields, coal bed seams, tight sands containing gas deposits that have been trapped in the rock. Hydraulic fracturing requires fracking fluids, which are chemical cocktails consisting of five hundred ninety-six chemicals, some of which chemicals are neurotoxins and carcinogens. This process also includes…

considered CO2 neutral (1). The total dependency on fossil fuels such as gasoline, natural gas and petroleum gas makes it too risky in case of future depletion of the “black gold”. The risky part of fossil fuels is that they are not…

Fracking is a process that causes protest in states around the country, though it has positive and negative effects. A recent advancement in technology has created an increase in oil and gas production. It also caused an increase in the runoff and release of chemicals into the air and water. This generated a notable increase in the popularity of wells across several cities and towns. Hazardous chemicals used in the process of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling is prompting resources…

increased significantly in both countries after 20 years. In 1980, the number of units of electricity production of Autralia ( 100 units) was 10 units higher than that of France. Coal produced half of the electric units in Australian while both natural gas and hydro power accounted for 20 per cent accordingly of total production. Oil only generated 10 per cent of electricity in Australia, however it produced around 22 per cent production in France, equalling to the total units of electricity…

production of hydrogen fuel, transportation of hydrogen to the refueling stations is a major challenge, but with the recent comprehensive research by NREI, transporting energy to the stations is made possible by the mixture of both hydrogen and natural gas in the natural gas pipelines, and this comes with a low mixing rates of 3% to 5%. And due to this mixture, the emission of CO2 is drastically reduced. Furthermore, a case study regarding the transition to 100% renewable energy using hydrogen…