• Each gas well requires an average of 400 tanker trucks to carry water and supplies to and from the site • It takes 1-8 million gallons of water to complete each fracturing job • The water brought in is mixed with sand and chemicals to create fracking fluid. Approximately 40‚000 gallons of chemicals are used per fracturing. • Up to 600 chemicals are used in fracking fluid‚ including known carcinogens and toxins such as… lead‚ uranium‚ mercury‚ ethylene glycol‚ radium‚ methanol‚ hydrochloric acid
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Gasland‚ by Josh Fox‚ a Strong Argument against Hydraulic Fracturing Gasland‚ a documentary by Josh Fox‚ details the dangers of hydraulic fracturing. The film starts when Fox receives an offer from a gas company to rent his land and drill for natural gas. He travels across the United States investigating the affects in places where fracturing has is already established. Fox provides a strong argument that hydraulic fracturing is a danger to the environment and residents where the drilling occurs
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Danielle Myers12-1 Hydraulic fracturing(also known as fracking) is a highly controversial topic to those that keep up with current government issues. Although many people believe that fracking is malicious‚ it is potentially one of the greatest ideas for America‚ and could end our distress very quickly. The only negative responses to fracking are coming from relatively uninformed people. Fracking has both environmental and economic advantages. Many people are uninformed about fracking. Some
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"How Is Helium Produced?" Production: Although Helium is one of the most common elements in the universe it is a rare gas on earth. It exists in the atmosphere in such small quantities (less than five parts per million) that recovering it from the air is uneconomical. Helium is produced as a by-product of the refining of natural gas‚ which is carried out on a commercial scale in the USA and Poland. In these areas natural gas contains a relatively high concentration of Helium which has accumulated
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| HYDRAULIC LAB REPORT | | 15/2/2013 | | No | Title | Page No | 1 | Experiment 1 | 2 | 2 | Experiment 2 | 10 | 3 | Experiment 3 | 19 | 4 | Experiment 4 | 30 | 5 | Experiment 5 | 38 | HYDRAULIC Laboratory – Experiment 1: HYDRAULIC JUMP 1.0 Introduction A hydraulic jump is a sudden dissipation of energy caused by a change from super-critical to sub-critical flow. The concept is very similar to sudden expansion in pipe flow‚ except that hydraulic jumps occur in open-channel flow. At
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I. LANDING GEAR SAFETY DEVICES Most airplanes with a retractable landing gear have a gear warning horn that will sound when the airplane is configured for landing and the landing gear is not down and locked. Normally‚ the horn is linked to the throttle or flap position‚ and/or the airspeed indicator so that when the airplane is below a certain airspeed‚configuration‚ or power setting with the gear retracted‚ the warning horn will sound. Accidental retraction of a landing gear may be prevented by
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48362 – HYDRAULICS and HYDROLOGY James E Ball - Hydrology Component SUBJECT DETAILS 1 CONTACTS Assoc Prof James Ball james.ball@uts.edu.au ph – 9514 2623 Office Hours Monday 2:00 – 4:00pm Contact by email for appointment SUBJECT CONCEPT The objective of this component of the subject is: Introduce engineering hydrology; Introduce hydrological processes; Introduce flood estimation; and Introduce engineering hydrology applications
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1. How is electricity produced? The most simple way of producing static ekectricity is by rubbing or friction. When you rub two different kind of materials that are insulator‚ you can transfer electrons from one substance to another. Nowadays‚ to create electricity we use battery and generators. Voltage can be made by heart‚ light or mechanical pressure. http://science.howstuffworks.com/electricity-info2.htm 2. Where and how is electricity used? Electricity gives us ability to produce
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pressure; this part of the process allows the gas to flow to the head of the well and outward. Geological formations often contain large amounts of valuable gases and oils but have a low permeability leading to poor flow rate. The combination of hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling has been able to address this problem‚ opening the shale deposits
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In 2015 the United States produced over US over 7.66 billion cubic meters of natural gas in 2015 (cia1). This natural gas was the largest source of electric energy in the country (eia1). The US energy information administration currently estimates that two thirds of this natural gas was extracted from the ground using a process known as hydraulically fractured. This is when hydraulic fluid is injected under high pressures into wells deep underground in order to cause the underground rock formations
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