Fundamental Facts about Fracking

It’s time for the truth about fracking. The communities in the areas of fracking are the best and most modern they’ve ever been.

Fracking is the most environmentally beneficial approach ever used to extract oil and clean natural gas. It’s also bringing new prosperity to the communities in the area.

Politicians leveraging “Fracking fears” are demonstrably corrupt and or ignorant about the realities of fracking. It is an example of politics based on weak, inaccurate, but highly promoted mythology.

And, regarding the “fracking advocacies:” This is just one more example of how organizations are just cashing in on the terrifying myths they’ve created to gain donations and other money from well-intended but ignorant patrons.

The reality is that the people located in fracking areas are being far better served and prosperous than they’ve been for decades.

The anti-fracking opponents are utterly ignorant of how and why fracking is such an improvement over the “traditional” carelessly drilled wells that are now abandoned and leaking contamination into the aquifers they drilled through.

The fundamental truth is that the Gaslands movie should have been labeled as the fiction it tells.

The fear-inducing movie presented as an anti-fracking documentary movie, “Gaslands,” was produced to help build irrational fears of “fracking” impacts and depicted the Town of Barnhart as a fracking-caused ghost town.

In reality, Barnhart, TX, today is the finest it’s ever been. Barnhart has experienced several booms and bust cycles, the 1910-2010 agriculture period preceding the movie shot, with the last dooming cycle being related to the human-induced water scarcity from over-pumping the freshwater aquifers in the area for agricultural irrigation.
The advent of fracking brought new modern life to this west Texas town and brought new prosperity to the town and areas surrounding it.

In reality, today’s Barnhart is a success story about how positive the fracking economy is. Rather than obliterated by fracking, it’s become the finest, most modern town it’s ever been with new growth. It’s even listed in Travel Advisor as an interesting and peaceful place to visit.

Top energy news: Wind and solar hit record levels of power generation; and more | World Economic Forum

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As IRA drives renewables investment, attention turns to transmission upgrades | S&P Global Market Intelligence

Source: As IRA drives renewables investment, attention turns to transmission upgrades | S&P Global Market Intelligence

Please retain this article so we can discuss where the $ multi-trillion sustainable alternatives are hidden, and why.

A Uruguayan physicist cracked a major code for renewable energy : NPR

In an unlikely country, Uruguay, a particle physicist figured out how to convert energy grids to renewable energy. We tell the story of how he did it.

Source: A Uruguayan physicist cracked a major code for renewable energy: NPR

Uruguay is demonstrating the new model we need to be actively deploying as the ASEAN economies start rapid enough growth to compete with China.

We now see how the ASEAN countries can electrify almost all their economies. 

I did some unsponsored research 2018 regarding how the ASEAN countries could electrify with 90% renewable energy.

Like Uruguay, the islands, and even the mainland countries like Laos and Viet Nam, have all of the pumped hydro storage potential needed to mimic Uruguay.

The ASEAN region also has plentiful wind and solar resources that, like Uruguay, can supply 37% of the electricity needs, with the pumped hydro’s supplemental energy storage, which the terrain is ideally suited for.

I checked the Uruguayan electricity mix in the International Trade Administration objective analysis:

https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/uruguay-renewable-energy-, Uruguay’s energy mix in 2021 looked like the following:

” In 2021, electricity matrix distribution consisted of 37 percent of hydropower generation, 35 percent wind, 18 percent fossil, 7 percent biomass and 3 percent from solar.”

I feel strongly that the Uruguay model should be used as a template for electrification on the high ASEAN electricity demand from data centers and other 80% electrified industries.

This can be accelerated by electrically powering what is projected to become the fourth-largest economy, equal to 25% of the global economy.

I want to thank Atty Geoffrey Anderson for once again pointing me toward crucial and unbiased thinking that either illuminates or wipes out some critical premises of my thoughts.

 

 

 

 

The challenge of reducing industrial pollution — European Environment Agency

Source: The challenge of reducing industrial pollution — European Environment Agency

The real challenge is the media power of the people and corporations that have depended on “fueling” this pollution since the close of WWII.

The creation of a new age of mythology officially kicked off in 1982.

This has succeeded in terms of what people have come to believe, but it cannot genuinely succeed in the truth that is as nearly as solid as Newtonian physics.

For now, it’s best left “undiscovered” while it quietly evolves beyond denial or fear-mongering.

Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection | Electricity Markets and Policy Group

For my friends that I’ve discussed some alternative options with, this verifies my position that the amount of superfluous intermittent electricity generation is limitless.

Source: Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection | Electricity Markets and Policy Group

https://microgridknowledge.com/microgrids-rural-areas/?

Much of the significance of this article is “unimaginable.”

“No man can imagine even a simple thing that he’s never experienced,” John Locke.

Microgrids, to date. have been perceived by the “energy industry” as a well-balanced assemblage of equipment that will work seamlessness to provide reliable electricity to a specific group of users. And I agree that this is an essential part of our energy transition.

What is unimaginable is how and what a microgrid does, and even more, what it could do.

I’ll be going further with some unrecognized microgrid possibilities in another post.

But this article is certainly worth a read as a step in better understanding the greater possibilities of microgrids.

 

Michelle Moore, former sustainability chief under President Obama, is keen on building rural microgrids to provide resilience and clean power.

Source: https://microgridknowledge.com/microgrids-rural-areas/?vgo_ee=YjAmVs6MJNKvMnGeEWhSVzpxdzkQNl9LgdxZ9pnzLRY

NY Times Names Pittsfield, MA as Top 10 City People Moved To

From Altresco’s perspective, all business is designed to create benefits that last a minimum of 20 years.

We developed the Altresco Pittsfield business on that basis. In 1990 we started providing emissions-free heat to the GE Pittsfield Complex, replacing the annual combustion of 200,000 Bbls of the same kind of high pollution Bunker C  fuel causing the Covid precursor pollution throughout the industrial world.

The Pittsfield Generation business was not a typical “power Plant” development as has been the standard for the past 20 years.

The Altresco Business system was thoughtfully and collaboratively designed, resulting from transparent collaboration with New England Electric Systems, the six pipeline companies bridging the 2400 miles between the Alberta, Canada, gas producers, and our “co-generating” station, with particular dedication and collaboration between Tenneco Gas Transmission and NEES, the Massachusetts department of environmental quality, DEQE. , and 14 additional participants that allowed the Altresco Pittsfield Facility to operate as a complete utility, nestled under the wing of New England Electric, interconnected to and dispatched by NEPOOL (now NEISO)

Although a “Qualifying Facility” under the PURPA regulation, the “Power Purchase Agreement” with NEES was meticulously crafted to provide much more significant benefit to the 14 individual “stakeholders” than either a “power plant” style development or even New England Electric System themselves could have accomplished alone.
I will soon be posting an acknowledgment thanking and recognizing the 57 Individuals that were members of what turned into a team that was all wholly dedicated to bringing this facility and the peripheral benefits to Upstate Eastern New York and Western Massachusetts.

Source: NY Times Names Pittsfield, MA as Top 10 City People Moved To

MISO approves 2000 miles of new transmission

My question is: How will this transmission improvement improve the “Stranded Power” uptake and reduce curtailments of the growing amount of wind generation in MISO. Is this expansion designed to encourage and incentivize energy storage and other DERs?

Source: MISO approves 2000 miles of new transmission.

Utilities pilot DER programs to shave peaks, reward customers

Thank you, Jennifer Runyan, for posting this good article on Linked In.

As I read through the detail, I see many very positive shifts in the attitudes of franchised IOU utilities.

This sounds like the sun is starting to rise on some of the extreme pollution reduction potentials of intermittent wind and solar electricity surges.

Source: Utilities pilot DER programs to shave peaks, reward customers

As they “grow up,” programs like this type of “energy” storage that replaces fossil fuels with renewable generated electricity should start a trend that can ultimately double and triple renewable energy’s impact on reducing pollution.