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emissions from fracking wells can also cause acute and chronic diseases. Along with less serious, yet irritating conditions of sore throat, eye irritation, and headaches. These symptoms should easily persuade people to find a better way to retrieve gas or oil from the ground. If Hydraulic Fracturing is not dealt with, the environment will decline, along with our health. Over time and the overuse of fracking wells, the environment will drastically change. Acid rain will happen more often, along…

Out of Gas by David Goodstein addresses a plethora of different environmental issues mostly surrounding oil and the oil industry. Throughout the eight-part book Goodstein reminds the reader each time to keep an open mind, explore environmental dilemmas, and become active in the fight to find an alternative energy source. The eight main points in this book are understanding the opportunities and limitations the future holds for alternative energy resources, Hubbert’s Peak, America’s excess use of…

Are Sparking Outlets Safe? You’ve probably seen it countless times: an electrical spark at the moment you plug in your hair dryer or blender. There are times when you can safely ignore that electrical spark, but there are other times when that spark is a sign that something is wrong with your electrical system. At Harrison Electric, we’ve found that if you’ve experienced the following and you have an electrical spark, you should contact us as soon as possible to avoid an electrical fire.…

that incremental life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with the pipeline are estimated in the range of 0.07 to 0.83 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, with the upper end of this range representing twelve one-thousandths of one percent of the 6,702 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted in the United States in 2011. In comparison with railway transport scenarios, an increased volume of train transport would result in greenhouse gas emissions from both diesel fuel…

Coal Energy There are many different types of energy sources that are used in different countries across the world. One of these energy sources is coal. Coal provides as much a ⅓ of the entire world's energy. Coal also produces 30% of US energy. Coal is not, however, used in Idaho. Idaho does generate coal electricity but this energy is sold to neighboring states like Utah and California. There are many things about coal worth knowing especially if you plan to build a large power plant and…

systems that could have avoided the incident. The failures listed included "dodgy" cement, two valve failures, a pressure test misinterpretation, and no gas alarm, among a few others (Mullins). Supposedly the cement should have sealed the well, but it failed to do so as gas leaked towards the surface. The pipes also had a valve preventing the gas from traveling upwards, which didn't worked properly. The next mistake was a misinterpretation of a pressure test 50 minutes before the explosion,…

So removing coal isn’t an option, at least not without a gradual process and well thought out plan. Even then, coal mining creates jobs. Over 174,000 jobs are created by coal in the United States, and this number does not include jobs that are indirectly made possible which is in the tens of thousands. This information can be found on Sourcewatch’s article titled “Coal and Jobs in the United States”. And with the addition of scrubbers making coal a very clean process, why should we remove it?…

to find an alternative source. Their main priority is ethanol. They are constantly trying to figure out if it will work, how much it is used right now, and if it will ever carry out the same jobs that gasoline can do. Ethanol will not be a viable gas alternative. Corn cannot be made fast enough to sustain the same level of usage as gasoline the production of ethanol is very expensive, and it creates more air pollution than the burning of oil. Corn prices are on the rise which would make…

Other times, strangers acquired shelter in barns and sheds. Still, in other instances people slept on the ground in the open air. Within a few years of the start of the oil boom hundred’s of new homes had been constructed. By 1914 the population of the town had already diminished to around twenty-eight hundred people, but it would never recede to the paltry forty to one hundred citizens it had been before the oil boom. In 1901, due to the many people living in town the streets and land…

Current Knowledge on the Problem Nowadays, people use fuel as a source of energy which helps them improve their economic well-being and living status. However, its usage has come with a cost because its burning and continued popularity is a major factor contributing to global warming (IPPC). It also has a negative impact on the economy. In its composition, only 565 gigatons out of 2765 of carbon dioxide contained in the fossils is burnt before its negative effects on the globe turn irreversible…