[ExI] Hydraulic Fracturing [WAS Re: Cephalization, proles...]

[Richard Loosemore]

Tomaz Kristan wrote:
> Yes, I now, he is referring to me. Guess who I am referring to!
> 
> But, you see, you dislike crackin as so expensive that's impossible to 
> use it.
> 
> I don't see why that would be. 

You don't, huh?  Then produce some information to back up your claim. 
At the moment, the gas companies who generate the waste water have not 
proposed any way to clean it economically, so what they do instead is 
either:

a) Shop around to find municipalities that are so desperate for cash 
that they will allow the water to be passed through their existing water 
treatment facilities.  Many municipalities will not allow this, because 
they point out that ordinary treatment facilities cannot handle the 
chemicals...... that is, the chemicals that are KNOWN to be present.

b) Shop around for a muncipality that will simply allow the water to be 
dumped into the environment.

Since nobody has proposed a way to process the water economically, the 
buck passes to you, since you claim that you "don't see why [it would be 
prohibitively expensive to clean the water, and secure the technology 
against all the other damage it causes]".  I am afraid that "I don't see 
why that would be" is not a valid scientific argument.

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And, without any arguments to back up your assertion, the politically 
charged insults that you injected into the discussion make my comment 
about "Arguing with Idiots" seem pretty appropriate.


(Thanks, Glenn Beck: you invented such a spot-on phrase to apply to 
yourself and your friends!).



Richard Loosemore