$demographics around fracked natural gas wells$

It’s time to change that and, in accordance with the promises made at COP26 just a few months ago, deliver a credible and workable plan for both the short term energy crisis solution and delivering net zero.” “In energy policy terms we failed to plan and this effectively planned to fail. The list above does not attempt to be fully comprehensive and there are other technologies that will come into play if encouraged and supported by government. Retro-fit insulation works but better still make our new houses the best they can be to retain heat. Finally let us not forget our housing stock, too little of which is ft for purpose in terms of frugal use of energy. The UK lacks energy storage in any serious quantities but it can be built for hydrogen, electricity, heat and more. Offshore and onshore wind could be added as could more arrays of photovoltaic cell-powered solar farms. And with carbon capture and storage about to be undertaken (at last) we can ensure that use of these fossil fuels need not cost us the Earth. Gas to wire in the Southern North Sea could see us delivering electricity to shore even when the wind does not blow. So too with our gas fields, many of which are not at their technical end-of-life, rejuvenation is perfectly possible and the undeveloped discoveries in the Southern North Sea are counted in tens of fields. Economically spent at low oil prices, such fields could be rejuvenated. Offshore, we abandon oilfields with on average 60% of the original oil volume remaining in place. The UK has substantial resources, low grade, ultra-low-carbon geothermal heat could displace gas, coal and oil from our heating permanently. Recent history demonstrates that UK governments have singularly failed to develop credible plans, believing instead that market forces will keep us warm and bathed in light. “Can we fix our energy crisis in the mid-term? Certainly, but it means developing a route map that delivers secure energy supplies, affordable energy supplies and sustainable zero to low-carbon energy supplies. That though comes at a cost measured both in pounds sterling and the increased carbon footprint of LNG over gas supplied as gas. OPEC members could increase production in the short term increase oil production and an increase in shipments of LNG from the USA, Qatar and elsewhere could alleviate the squeeze on gas supply for power generation, domestic and industrial consumers. “Can we fix our immediate energy crisis? Probably, but it means maintaining our reliance on fossil fuels and on other nations or groups of nations. And abundant gas alone would not do anything to reduce petrol or heating-oil prices. Even if shale-gas could be won, the time to delivery of first gas would be measured in a handful of years at best, not the weeks and months to solve the immediate energy crisis. We also have the wrong kind of geology, small geological basins rather than vast tracts of identical geology and our island is too crowded to get in the thousands of wells to sustain a shale-gas industry.

$demographics around fracked natural gas wells$

‘Crispy’ shale, that which is brittle and rich in silica is what is needed for fracking to be successful and most UK shale is especially rich in malleable clays that won’t hold a fracture well. We have, to put it bluntly the wrong kind of shale. The resource is indeed huge but the reserve – that which can be won by drilling and fracking is tiny and indeed to date the proven commercial reserve for the UK is zero.

$demographics around fracked natural gas wells$

“Can fracking for shale gas alleviate the UK’s energy supply crisis? No! Much has been made of the amount of gas trapped deep underground within the UK’s shale formations and sure enough if you dig up a piece of the appropriate shale and heat it in an oven, methane, the same stuff as we get piped to our house for gas boilers and gas stoves, will be released. Prof Jon Gluyas, Director of the Durham Energy Institute, Durham University, said: There has been recent debate and media discussion about the use of fracking in the UK and its role in the UK’s short and long term energy security. Expert reaction to arguments about fracking for UK energy security

$demographics around fracked natural gas wells$

Demographics around fracked natural gas wells