Fracking explained: opportunity or danger
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- Fracking explained in five minutes.
Fracking is a controversial topic. On the one side the gas drilling companies, on the other citizen opposed to this drilling method. Politicians are also divided on the matter.
We try to take a neutral look on fracking. It is relevant for all of us, because of high prices for energy and the danger for our drinking water.
This video focuses mostly on the debate currently ongoing in europe. In a lot of european countries there is a public outcry against fracking, espacially in germany. But the facts in this video are relevant to all of us.
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Were the frackes are the birds
Mark Bessell this was from 2013 they werent created yet
Do you have a list of studies on this topic?
Watching Kurzgesart videos without birds is weird
If you are man, you can look your own bird
@@UnitedNationsSecretariat Ali, you cheeky, cheeky bastard..
The animation looks entirely lifeless....
@@TheRenegade... Dude, the video is 6+ pissing years ago, have you considered that?
Yeah its too weird
The fact that fracking posses a significant threat to our drinking water pretty much damns it in my eyes. Water IS the most important resource we require and should not be wasted or destroyed like that! Seriously if a significant water source of an area were to be compromised by fracking, you basically fuck all life in that area!
I say go Nuclear energy until we find a better, greater source of energy.
Joel West You mean like Fusion? If we can hold out for a few dacades until fusion becomes viable, we're pretty much set forever. Hell, if we could minaturize the technology we could even make Iron Man suits!
George Perakis Fusion releases deadly amounts of neutrons and gamma rays, not a good idea :P
Fission can easily bridge the gap until Fusion becomes available.
Sarge Rho Well we'll figure out a way! And yeah that's what I meant.
I agree with all of you, it's funny because we know how to get the energy we need. We just lack the technology to do it safely and efficiently.
Mike Bishop With fossil fuels even more will die from both Climate Change, contaminated water supplies and from the pollution we dump in our air. Fracking wouldn't be needed at all if we diverted our focus on stuff like Nuclear Energy. It's the worst possible solution to a problem that we have more viable solutions to.
Something starting with F and ending with cking, includes a shaft and penetration.....
Good one.
Ha
The only thing it's missing is u.
no
Giggity
Watching because the UK government has just done a u-turn on fracking, so I decided to educate myself.
I cannot commend this channel highly enough for the work that they do.
It'll be overturned again soon enough, The Conservatives are only projected 50 seats next election and good riddance for their absolute negligence of the environment for short term profits!
@@WilliamReginaldLucas Hear hear!
i love to watch old videos and see how u guys have grown both artistically and
pedagogically.
one of my fav channels on youtube!
What is pedagogically
@@claeab255 Fucking google it you melon, you have google at your fingertips... also how the hell do you not know?
@Neo2266 Ever heard of the saying "You live and you learn"? I don't think its constructive to insult someone for not knowing something but I agree he should've just googled it
@@Neo2266. i'm 12, so i'm stupid
@@claeab255 Juan Borrero loves to watch Kurzgesagt's older videos, as Juan gets satisfaction from comparing the older videos to Kurzgesagt's newer ones. Specifically, Juan enjoys observing how Kurzgesagt have grown both in the unique stylization of their artwork, and in the approach to their teaching. It's one of Juan's favorite channels on CZcams!
Nuclear Energy all the way. Clean, safe(statistically) and practical. Goddamn public hysteria is killing it off.
clean? not really
Elzian Cleaner than most other ways of generating electricity.
Elzian I'll concede that nuclear waste is a problem. But compared to climate change it's a relatively minor and localised one.
I'd pick nuclear waste over greenhouse gases any day, for a variety of reasons.
SamDM1 THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
You remember events like Fukushima because they are dramatic and receive media coverage. You don't remember the chronic problems of smog in central China or connect oil spills to systematic problems with Fossil Fuel production.
Deaths per fucking kilowatt. Statistically, you are much safer living next to a nuclear reactor than a fossil fuel power plant.
Merry Machiavelli totally right
When executives for fracking companies won't let people do it near their land, that tells you right away how safe it is.
There are a ton of fracing executives with wells on their property. I've met some of them
Proof of this assertion?
I'm one of these so called "executives" but I'd rather be called a Company Man or a consultant but anyways I have 22 wells on my farm so your statement is wrong. Many of my other friends that are higher up have wells also. Having Wells on our land means more money in our pockets. More money in my pockets means more money I invest into my employees and equipment.
@tomtolbert32 ...As a opponent of fossil fuels, I do feel the need to congratulate your enthusiasm, but also to remind you of a vital fact. The effects of climate change are numerous and the potential dangers of fracking are concerning, but neither one will cause the literal detonation of our planet.
@@frac8220 Also, given the reputation of natural gas as the lowest carbon fossil fuel, as well as the fact that it seems to be well suited to bolster renewable energy's largest weaknesses well into the future:
What is your (entirely personal) opinion on Climate Change?
How many here after the Vice Presidential debate 😂😂😅
At least we are becoming informed!
Khali4 Ya Yup
Same here, for the science.
Thinking maybe they should ban fracking now and relocate the workers into cleaner energy jobs.
👋🏻 me! Haha 😂
All in the name of money.
Short-term gain for long-term pain.
Ever heard of supply and demand? If fracking didn't exist, gas prices would be astronomical and a majority of our supply would have to come from the middle east or other foreign sources. There are two sides to every equation, kid.
Trey Lyon
I do understand the concept of supply and demands. My issue here is about finding more viable ways, ways that has the least impact on the environment.
quaqmireful What have you done to find a more viable solution?
Trey Lyon Do you mean to say what has the industry done to find a more viable solution?
ian konrad You could not be more wrong, and clearly have a very very limited understanding of economics as well as the energy industry. Rising prices are not a result of fracking, they are a result of decrease in supply and producible resources. Do you know why fracking exists? Because the easy high-flowing reservoirs where you could just poke a hole in the ground and get a gusher have been depleted long ago. Exhaustion of the cheapest and most easily accessible fields has caused us to have to explore less conventional resources in the US. Because these new 'unconventional' reservoirs do not flow under hydrostatic pressure, they must be fracked to produce any gas at all. Fracking merely connects fracture networks within tight rocks so that they can produce trapped gas. Fracking doesn't drive the cost up, it actually has kept it lower, AND has helped decrease our dependence on resources from the middle east. You ought to do your research before you go off making frail arguments and accusations against someone with a masters degree in geology and years of experience in the energy industry... Without fracking the US economy would be a fraction of what it is now and we would be at the mercy of whatever OPEC wanted to charge for petroleum because we would have no producible resources in our own nation. Hopefully this will give you some food for thought, kiddo. Next time do your research.
You've come a long way in 9 years. Not that there's anything wrong with the content here, it's just that the quality of presentation has vastly improved.
Fracking:Exists
Nuclear Energy Companies: EXCUSE ME WHAT THE FRACK
Nuclear power is much better long term than natural gas.
@@Jemalacane0 nuclear power is much better for both short and long term than most energy sources.
That one thing is bad doesn't mean that the other is good.
@@DavidLopez-pc7yg i dont know why we cant invest more money into fission powerplants rather than these highly dangerous methods that only grant energy on the short term anyway
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How often are these videos uploaded? The space videos are AWESOME!
Thanks :) Once per month. The next one will be on 28th january.
You don't even know how cool I feel from you replying to me!
Cosmo_Bmx The space videos are mostly scary, because sometimes they will talk about the end of the universe.
+Spintop the Narwhale None of us will be alive to see the end of the universe, heck the children that descend from you won't even be genetically distinguishable as YOURS by that point.
+Deveyus how do you know that it isnt soone jnkovnodlxmgvosöxvjnapsfms - universe gets destroyed -
The future of energy: Potatoes.
And lemon grenades!
Vampyona Make life take the damn lemons back?
Yeah, burn Life's house to ashes
Vampyona Lemon-nades!
And potato mines! Im pvz fan ima get out now bye
Never knew this video was that old, it looks so much better than most modern education animations. like wtf
it’s not that old lol
Kirzgesagt videos without birds are sooooooo weird
Holy shit I'm studying for my ap environmental exam an I learned more about this stuff in the comments section than I did in the class tf
Yea, my biology teacher showed us a documentary about how fracking sucks, but then he showed us another documentary that completely discredited the anti-fracking movement.
You ought to look up what has been happening in Oklahoma for the longest time. We have never had earthquakes and they started fracking we had major earthquakes that even spread to other states and cause massive amounts of damage. However we managed to stop them and we haven't had a earthquake since
@@toferkapeleris9580 Thats a good teacher! Gotta see both sides of the argument
@@toferkapeleris9580 can you please tell me the name of those two documentaries?
A lot of people in the UK seem to be worried about fracking causing geological instability, but my biggest concern is the water, both how much is needed for the process and what's done with it afterwards.
Especially since it is our most important resource or it will be once the global warming will rise more and more
99.5 percent is water and studies show that it can be used for irrigation and farming with no risk.
@@davehedric1543 toxin-injected fluids with no risks?😳
@@davehedric1543 study sources or authors please?
@@ronaran8420muh guy, we use biocide, dish soap, and vinegar. Don't fall for propaganda.
I would like to know how much energy the fracking process uses VS how much energy it extracts. I’d also like to know more about the pollutant risks and chemicals used
Been working on frac sites for 10 years now. I'm not sure of exact numbers but they definitely get a huge return on energy spent to energy gained. Also I can't disclose what exactly the chemicals we use are but they are acids a detergents. Some very nasty shit to be honest. Most of that water is recovered and we reuse that same dirty water over and over and over gain for multiple wells. When they flowbacked the dirty water we treat it and try to make it as clean as possible then when we are done with it we just inject it deep into the earth.
@@frac8220 seems like a waste compared to *most* wind turbines and solar panels.
@@nothingofinterest8048 on the contrary, wind turbines take 5-9 months to get a return on energy and up to 15 years to pay for itself (average turbine expectancy is only 20yrs). Not to mention the negative environmental factors that also come from turbines, such as fiberglass dispersion. Carbon fuel harvesting/production in general but specifically fracking, for the sake of this discussion, typically have an immediate (as in soon after the well begins production) and exponential return on energy production as well as financial investment.
@@jarrodacosta7647 and you’re ignoring how fracking is way worse for the environment. Plus wind turbines aren’t the only form of renewable energy.
@@jarrodacosta7647 cite your sources
CITATION NEEDED.
There are many studies that refute the risk of water contamination via fracking.
It's a bit like ripping up your favorite sofa for the chance of finding some loose change that might have dropped out of someone's pocket
@Aim Low more like one man tearing up your sofa to cause earthquakes all over the place. Happened in Oklahoma until we stopped the fracking. Are earthquakes all over the place major ones causing huge infrastructural damage. They kept trying to say it didn't cause any earthquakes whatsoever the whole state came together to fight them off.
@@kateajurors8640
We still use hydraulic fracturing to develop geothermal resources.
If you compare our species' addiction to greater amounts of energy to a drug addict's addiction to more powerful opiates, fracking always struck me as the equivalent of sticking the needle into your feet or groin because the rest of your veins have collapsed. Fracking appears to be a desperate, dangerous way of sustaining a habit that is fundamentally unsustainable.
Well said
Yeah and sadly... There's people out there that are not part of the corporation, just defend fracking and just deny about the environment and talk like that and oil are the sole proprietor for mass energy while calling solar and wind are a waste of time and nuclear is unreliable.
Using energy is a fundamentally unsustainable activity? Pathetic
@@laaarsas Try again. Two more chance to pass reading comprehension.
@@waiTeeberz16 What is not comprehended here? What else does "sustaining a habit that is fundamentally unsustainable" refer to if not "our species' addiction to greater amounts of energy"? Humans require energy and food. More humans require more energy and more food. Is human life itself unsustainable? Pathetic.
Well, now we know what happened to Krypton.
@TheBlondie they used up all their energy
Harris and Pence were debating about fracking in the 2020 debate so that’s why I am here : P
Valkyries Shield will you be voting for Trump or Jo Jorgensen then?
@Valkyries Shield I love how any women who tries to deflect, defend or correct an accusation or position gets put down as an arrogant bitch. As for dodging questions your boy Pence was skirting around questions all night long (go back and watch his response to accepting the election result, white supremacy, health care implementation) all politicians skirt questions that’s a problem, the problem is your not aware of people doing it because you can only follow along with someone who disagrees with you.
@Valkyries Shield and u thought pence did well? dodging ever single question he got asked? voting blue will literally save roe v wade, make healthcare affordable and cover pre existing conditions, make college tuition free for low income families, and overall promote a progressive outlook on equality and social issues. and trust me, I hate kamala and biden a lot. but trump and pence are genuinely terrible.
Fracking.....this is literally poisoning Mother Earth with toxic poisons, and sucking out her essences...It's no wonder she's sick from it, and from various other human nonsenses. Keep going further with it, and this civilization will be just another one of the previous destroyed ancient civilizations that had been demolished by Mother Earth. And the cycle continues. Don't become this cycle. We must transcend above it. Above our unconscious ways. Become a Conscious Planet. Let's all wake up, and continue to BE conscious, and once we're being Conscious, doing anything becomes natural and aligned with Mother 🙏🏽☺️🌲🌳🌴🌸🌼🌻🐝 AUM Namah Shivaya 🙏🏽
@Timmy Carl that's not what identity politics means. None of those questions were about identity politics. But why would you lose your job? Biden said he won't ban fracking, if that's what you do. As a working class person I don't see why you wouldn't vote blue. Affordable health care doesn't appeal to you? And no you won't be taxed more, it's multi multi millionaires and billionaires who will pay for it
Most of the posters here seem to be overlooking the fact that water - the zillions of gallons pumped into the ground (not even considering contamination of it) - is not an unlimited resource. Here in Australia, our rivers are drying up, and yet - we use all of this water on fracking (called Coal Seam Gas - CSG - here). What will the grandchildren drink? You cannot drink gas, nor can you drink the contaminated by-product. For an illustration of this limited resource, see: waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/putting-all-worlds-water-into-big-cube.html
+JanCarol11 hahahahaha some people will believe anything they see on the internet. This was good for a laugh thanks man
HAHAHA found the idiot
Only thing is as long as there is oxygen and hydrogen it’s not finite
When the natural gas produced from these wells is burned it produces carbon dioxide and water vapor. A good well will actually create more water from burning the natural gas it produces then the millions of gallons of water used in the fracking process. Do some research and you will find out this is true.
@@mrtortoise3766 Water is quite hard to synthesize.
we could also just hop over to thorium reactors, but that would just be logical
And burn the economy to the ground becase everyone has no jobs YAY
Mason McDonald - That’s.. not how economics works.
Mason McDonald people got that ‘job’ until coal is out
@@masonmcdonald3932 More than half of jobs are bullshit jobs.
Im sure we'd manage to create more
Now, how do we build these reactors and where do we get thorium?
whos here after the interview video lol
Algorithm moment 🗿
How many here after the last Presidential debate?
In my point of view, fracking downsides outweigh the benefits 3:
He did overexaggarate it a bit. Fracking does pollute because it makes CO2 but it's not as nearly as damaging as in the video.
Antonio Klaić Yeah, and animal agriculture requires billions more gallons of water than fracking XD
Seriously it requires 3-5 trillion gallons per year, whereas fracking requires tens of billions.
Ila na yes, but the water used for fracking isn't even drinkable. Unless someone drinks salt water. Plus it's recycled.
Antonio Klaić Well, that is very serious. Also you can't drink salt water; the salt in the water makes it undrinkable :(
Ila na I know. I just said "Unless someone drinks salt water" as a joke. Funny thing with salt water is that it actually maks you thirstier because salt absorbs water.
Prepare for unforeseen consequences
Makes me wonder how big the coverup is going to be for the US government. Should be interesting to see how long they can hide it when people start dying.
Kiju Axel These are companies doing the fracking, not the government.
Sebastian Hoang
With the introduction of Trump, I don't think there's much of a difference now.
Aaron Evans exactly
Prepare for foreseen consequences, you mean.
just preparing for my drag race s13 audition
AmandaPleaseme Why is “fracking” a joke in the drag community now? Im so fucking lost.
The Bus Stop Roxxxy Andrews' was left at because rupaul does it lol
not this
@@MikanBaldmiki in a episode of season 12, rupaul receive a guest judge who is a politician against fracking
in the fame week, was leaked that she does fracking
I CAME HERE FOR THIS COMMENT 🤣
“oh the fracking?”
No, not that. X
@@Rhinemann * insert bird noises and swaying back and forth *
It's pretty much like pouring water into a toothpaste tube to extract the last remnants of the toothpaste. Methinks more of our time and resources would be better invested in finding new energy sources altogether. But no one wants to, because fossil fuels are still so profitable.
NuclearMasterRace
Angreh, I think you are correct, but that's the issue isn't it. When using this "ultra expensive" technique, its still much cheaper than anything else
Forget cheapness, we are talking ecological disasters!
+Go Fish germans triggered
Nuclear Fission is not an answer- U-235 is about as rare in the crust as Platinum, and thus have even more supply problems than Fossil fuels, which are actually far more common.
Fusion is not ready yet.
Thorium-based Fission could work- and synthesize enough Uranium to mitigate supply problems completely- only problem is that Nuclear Fission research is so hard to get funding for though, since everyone and their mother seems to hate it. Thus, more costly Renewable and Fossil Fuel energy becomes the primary focus.
And we don't NEED new energy sources, for now, the current renewable and nuclear energy sources can be improved in cost.
I hate that the causes of environmental protection and clean energy have become so political! Everyone should want both, whether or not you believe in extreme climate change.
Clean nuclear energy is the future. Work on it.
Anonymous Guy Libtards hate nuclear because Chernobyl or something. They only want useless energy like solar and wind
Adam as a leninist no we don't.
The problem with nuclear is dumbass conservatives defund nuclear programs that have turned our reactors into Maintence hell holes. Why fix something that could break soon when we could invest in a safe and proven technology ?
Nuclear isn't 100% safe when you dont maintain your facilities
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv libards dont exist hick
fuuussiooon geeeenneeerraaatttoorrrrrssss.
@@brendannyman7788 both of you are wrong. The left is backed by money from Solar and Wind power producers and the right is backed by fossil fuel power producers. It's really that simple.
Could you guys include your sources for your information. I am not saying that you are lying but it would be nice for students to find the information from where you got it from.
I think they do it for their newer videos in the description, this one is 10 years ago 😭😭😭
Do your own d@mned research!
I watched Bojack Horseman episode and now I am here.
Me but with Rupaul,how ya doin?
What is this a crossover episode?
Same i thought i was the only one 😂
What we're doing to ourselves is fracking stupid.
and animals will die too for not damaging earth.
Gamefusion IMO that's the saddest part. I'm actually far more OK with humans dying out due to our terminal stupidity than animals.
Another short sighted solution to an ever growing problem.
@@alexh349 You're so smart. Now explain how you can make solar panels that efficient without covering at least twice the surface area of the Earth lol
AND without using fossil fuels to extract the raw minerals and assemble the panels. Solar and wind power are just another mirage...
@@xoxo5537 hydroelectric, wind turbines, zinc batteries, geothermal, and when nuclear wastes have finally been provably reusable , nuclear energy. I’m sorry, by the way, for your ignorance ‘cause you can’t seem to recognize it
@@krd5709 id say most of those don’t produce the same energy output as fossil fuels from fracking, with the exception of nuclear. Wish we would jump in on that as a nation already.
Why aren’t the oil companies responsible for disposing of the chemicals rather than just dumping them back in the ground?
@@newwindserver so a big problem with trying to stop fracking is that over half of our oil supply comes from fracking. If we tried to stop fracking we would either see massive oil price rises or we’d have to buy oil from countries like Russia that are getting it by dirtier more environmentally harmful methods
@nathanholland775 All the more reason too move away from fossil fuels!!
BTW; have you seen pictures of thd once pristine lands once it had been strip mined; and the companies vowed to restore the land?! It is all now a wasteland! They took the money and ran! Typical Republican! Don't care about their own descendants!!! Nor yours & mine!!
@@aarone9000 that’s just not feasible unless you’re willing to move to nuclear power but most people don’t want those near them because of horror stories
Watching to get informed because energy shortage oil - gas are challenging the environment! Queensland Australia 🇦🇺 is looking to do this!
I am all for free market capitalism and small government and reducing government regulations and rules that destroy the economy. However we do need environmental regulations to protect the planet.
***** Hahahhaha
what are you talking about?
Nope, regulate the SHIT out of these criminal businesses. Make them eat my balls!
BadgerCheese94
criminal? hhahaha without those criminal businesses our nation and you would be so poor that instead of writing ignorant bs on youtube you would be out in the fields trying to harvest a rotten potato so that you dont starve
nicolas1999444
Those criminal corporations are what's making the average American poorer, while they get richer. Stop pretending America is paradise, take a look around Detroit, St. Louis, South Philly, Hialeah, see how glorrrrious it is.
nicolas1999444 Oh yeah look how these amazing corporations make there workforce rich. They used to hire American people until the labour movement and we started demanding basic things like a minimum wage and safe working conditions. Now all those jobs are outsourced to countries such as China where they work in god awful conditions for pennies. I mean 90% of there work force is starving, ill and desperate so your really chatting bollocks. Factories collapsing due to neglegance, beatings and forced labour - That would be the working conditions of the west if people hadent fought so relentlessly against them. When they were forced to provide such basics for us they decided to get rid of all our jobs and just move there factories out of the country! Yeah there soooo great
Love these videos. You guys do a great job at presenting the facts without being biased.
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I’m here after the presidential debate 👁
I've been watching your videos for about a year now and here I am getting lessons from my teacher of your videos thanks
What this video doesn’t say. If gas was trapped down there then so will the water be trapped. It’s literally called a gas cap which is non porous material above the gas. If it wasn’t there then the gas wouldn’t be trapped
"20,000 litres of Chemicals"
Very specific, considering chemicals are literally everything.
He meant artificial chems,
well he mean hydrochloric acid; tetramethylammonium; acetic acid and other things that can make your life miserable.
He explained later that it isn't clear what the chemicals are because industrial secrets. But up to 700 possible types of chemicals.
Paul Mahoney Think about how many artificial chemicals there are. Does fracking involve Splenda?
The State of Texas recently passed a law requiring company disclosure of fracing fluids in use. I encourage all hear to check it out.
Or just use clean energy? In Quebec all of our electricity is hydroelectric, no coal or gas at all, we have so much electricity that we even supply parts of New York with it! Clean, inexpensive, state-owned energy!
Unfortunately for us we don't have the wondrous levels of water that can be used for hyrroelectrics. I have toured Quebec's hydroelectric plants like Manic 5 and others. You guys are fortunate indeed.
Will Canada be moving to hemp fuel any time soon, I wonder.
Yeah why not? I mean clean energy is worth it.
Elaine Watson
Most of Canada's energy comes from Hydroelectric also, so they are nothing to be ashamed of! They need to set American an example.
Any argument saying America is not viable for Renewable sounds like bullshit to me. Have you double checked the size of the country? It has various different climates varied from the East to West coasts, and the Northern to Southern states. They have a large selection of opportunities.
but canada produces to much oil. is a big player
Who’s here from the debate?
Yep
Kurzegarst your my favourite science channel and I'd like to say we looked at this video in geography class which got me very excited.
This is the first video that I've seen of Kurzgesagt's that I've seen that is utterly wrong, and is the only one so far that I don't agree with.
Hydraulic Fracturing occurs many kilometers under the surface, and water wells are far, far shallower than that. There are innumerable layers of impermiable rocks between where the fracking is happening and where the water is retrieved from. If the natural gas couldn't make its way up through the layers, then there is no way possible that the liquid and chemicals (which are more viscous and denser than natural gas) could work its way up. In addition, most of the water pumped down for frack jobs is salt water retrieved from deep within the Earth, often from the same well that it is pumped back into. In addition, most frack fluid is reused/recycled, to reduce the need for more water.
As for the methane that is way worse than carbon dioxide reduced, it is usually burned off in gas flares to change it into CO2, and what isn't burned will decay naturally in a short amount of time to CO2. I'm not trying to say that it isn't a waste or it isn't polluting, I'm just saying that it's not nearly as bad as what Kurz is making it seem.
Overall, I'm ashamed that Kurz jumped on the bandwagon against fracking, and used this video to spread untrue information. I realize that many of you will jump at the opportunity to tell me that I'm wrong and throw insults and insulting names my way, but before you do, at least do some research on your own (not from a media outlet, they don't know what they're talking about and love to stir up trouble), and maybe you'll become enlightened on the subject as well. If not, I respect your opinion as long as its an informed one.
Yeah, it was one of our early videos, today we would present some stuff differently. For example, as of today all accidents with contaminated water occurred on the surface (leaking trucks, bad containers, accidents, stuff like that) - and there were quite a few of those that went public. Even in Germany, although it were only tests and not on a huge scale. On the other stuff, you could argue about that. For example the amount of closed wells that still release gas after they were abandoned due to bad sealing is considerable. As most of the time, the technology is better in theory than in practice because of sloppy and/or greedy humans.
***** Well if your video is bullshit on this point, you should remove and remake this video.
Sam Thomas Looks like you didn't even read their full answer. congratulations.
Hello person who clearly makes a living or benefits from fracking somehow... How is your reality today?
Strummer1980 did you not even notice that the creator of the video agreed with the OP that the information is outdated? the video is obviously slanted. This is important because 99% of people who watch this video will just out right believe it and form their opinions based on it. A lot of the information in this video is presented in a way to imply a situation that is worse than reality. While you seem to think the OP lives in a different reality because he doesnt agree with the dangers of fracing, i'd say you live in your own reality where you are unable to see that most anti-fracing information is exaggerated or at least given a strong bias towards the presenters goals. While fracing has a negative impact on the environment it isnt as destructive as most would believe.
Oh for fucks sake people... What is wrong with a clean energy source?
It is interesting how this has changed with new information showing fracking, while still having risk, is not as bad as we once thought. There was a lot of fear around it that lingers which is unfortunately but it is good that it triggered more research years ago.
This was back before we knew the correlation between fracking fluid disposal wells and earthquakes too
That's not because of the fracking though - they earthquakes were caused by pushing too much fluid too fast I to disposal wells.
We frack almost every well in Canada but don't have these earthquake issues because we have much stricter regulations forcing companies to clean their fluid or place it much more carefully into disposal holes as to not break the cap-rock they're pumping through
Talk to any geologist and they will give you a completely different image. Most people dont seem to realize just how far down thees wells go. The idea that the fracking fluid can come up into the water table is like saying that a glass of nasty water can seep through to the other side of a mountain, it cant. Fracking produces more productive wells, the gas can be extracted faster and a single well can extract from a very large area all to a single point while conventional drilling may need a new well every few hundred feet AND also uses dangerous fluids. The only place that the fluids have been able to contaminate the water is at the point where the drill hole crosses the water table and conventional wells will need to cross it many more times to get the same amount of gas out. To be clear I'm not a fan of any kind of drilling for fuels but if your going to do it (which we are) fracking is the way to go.
I am still glad it is banned in my country.
As a geologist, I concur. The biggest danger, as I see it, is when they place injection wells on fault lines. It's impossible to know where all fault lines are (there are just too many), but in one case I know of, they drilled an injection well on a known fault line, and an earthquake occurred. Was in north east Ohio a number of years ago. BTW, great channel Cody, love your vids!
Fatalcreator Your loss, fracking creates high paying jobs and adds millions to the local economy. If it can be perfected, it would be naive to ban it.
The problem is that they already HAVE contaminated water tables. That's already been confirmed. The argument companies use is that it's unlikely, since they can't say it's impossible anymore.
Who cares? I care far more about the fresh water we have limited amounts of being wasted or contaminated and the environment. We can focus on solar and wind and other such factors to get those same jobs.
I don't get why they need to pump the fluid back into the well after it's been exhausted. why not just fill it with something non-toxic before sealing?
I suppose the leftover fracking fluid has to go somewhere...
The real purpose is to save costs. Dumping it into a storage costs a lot in maintenance and to assure that it would not leak (kind of like nuclear waste). So companies save costs (and responsibilities) by pumping it back there and sealing it.
Hatsuna Kotobuki except it has leaked
they don't
from this to 16m subscribers and a book!!! congrats!!!
Oh, the fracking? - Bob The Drag Queen
why is it legal for them to do something so hazardous so often?
Why is it legal to smoke or to drink alcohol?
nicholas harrison do you not know the difference between those or do I really have to explain it to you?
Why is it legal to invade peaceful countries and slaughter the civilians and install a Dictator? (thats what the US had done many times before)
Jeffery Lebowski Technically they can't make it "illegal" but I agree with you
Because money, is indeed the god.
Fracking is bad.. Why can't we just use CLEAN energy sources like solar, wind, geothermal?
Because this kind of growth of clean energy would harm the world's largest corporations - oil companies. And powerful people who have been ruined by greed will do anything to keep their money.
Because they can't make enough power to turn on a single light bulb.
Arthur Wright
Yes they can. Where are you getting that nonsense? O_o
***** no one said anything about nuclear energy
***** Chernobly, Fukushima
Finally another word I can use instead of a swearing
It you start saying frack instead of fuck people might think your Mormon 😂
@@dallenhavenar6087 OMG YOU SWORE!1!!11!11
very nice videos! i love your channel! In my eyes it would be interesting to make a video about our Energy consumption...about what we consume and what we really need (should the government raise the taxes of non-green electricity in order to force people to consume less?)
Lol.. I was suppose to watch 3 hours of news to find out, and research my subject (Fracking)... All together, should've used around 5 hours.
This video + 2 minute news clip = A+ Project.
Schools are crap, face it. Soon children will learn through computers instead of books.
I am currently attending an online school.
ZiQi Wei This page basically is school lol
Sounds like such a fucking bad idea
I'm just glad you didn't have another "fracking" pun.
It can be solved though. The problem is the hydraulic fluid, we need a better means of disposing and dissolving it rather than just carelessly pumping it into the ground. It's already been shown to be neutralized, it's just unrealistic because so much of it is used. Once that's solved though, it's as good as solar.
We'd be much better off just making a dyson sphere and having the energy beamed back to Earth via lasers. More difficult to do, better outcome, way less harmful to the environment, necessary for future space exploration anyway.
A Dyson swarm would be easier to construct and less difficult to build and manage in the near future. I think you might like the idea.
FireRupee Well yeah but it's also less efficient.
Then again, it's an unavoidable step in the creation of a dyson sphere.
Who is here after the final debate 10/22/20?
Finally no ad in the end.
we need nuclear fusion
+Ivan Nunez or renewable energy.
+Get Shrekt Scrub nah, too expensive and not powerful enough
MythCraft00 then, we just have fossil fuels ?
+Ivan Nunez I agree sounds much better. And at the end just bury the waste in the place that fracking water would be buried - done.
LevittownPaIsSpecial holy shit, i was just asking cuz i'm ignorant about the subject, no need to be this rude.
U fracking kidding me?
TacticalMetalJoe So clever...
Fracking oil
Are you hydraulic fracturing me??
I appreciate this
Thanks, your videos always help.
thank you! this helped with my project :)
I know I am a little late to the party, but I love how this channel is so informational but at the same time extremely non-biased.
"extremely non-biased." watch it again. it's biased.
@@michaelangeloevans2722 Yes 15 year old me was quick to use adverbs. I still think its a pretty fair breakdown, but definitely leaning towards the anti-fracking stance.
Ya, it’s about as biased as it can be. It’s also missing critical information, such as these holes are dug far below the level of any aquifer. It’s impossible to seep up into them. Any water it could possibly leech down into would be too far for us to bother with. Lastly, the EPA has approved the chemicals used. The EPA won’t allow dangerous chemicals to be used. They have released all the information on the composition of these chemicals, so this video is misleading. It’s very obvious the intent of this video is to scare people.
Mmmm
@@darrenasphalt9133 good to know
Fracking is horrible not only for the environment but for people who live in the region. My friend lives in British Columbia (Canada) where they frack and he says that the water is un-drinkable once every couple of months.
is it getting worse?
*British Columbia is not Canada.
Uhhh yeah it kinda sorta is actually
W.D Barial Well its the only place in Canada where it is legal.
Peanut Beak
*Stop spelling "province" wrong.
Interestingly enough there no mention of earthquake induced by fracking as a con
Seems like another way we try to get energy but will destroy more important things
Wow now we are literally killing our planet from the inside ...
anguel wyvern I wish every day we could go back in time before this technology perverted us.
yep
Ash Phillips you do realize technology is defined as human ingenuity which means stuff like clothes or even as simple as a stick therefore if you go back in time to prevent technology you can never go back in time to prevent technology so technology would been invented which means you can go back in time to prevent technology and so on.... congratulations you just created a paradox. I shall now name this the technophobic paradox.
Ethan B. Lol, read again. I said THIS technology, not all technology. Derp
No it isn't.
if it contaminates water.. this should be banned by yesterday...
Dude, fucking ANYTHING can contaminate water. We can't exactly ban bugs, plant life, unknown bacteria, or nearby minerals, now can we?
Radiation exists everywhere in some levels, so we will send you to an atomic test field to live. Don't worry.. radiation exists everywhere. To adopt your irresponsible thinking.
giannispets
No, I'm realistic, not stupid, and banning anything that contaminates water would involve banning most of the world as we know it. No more pesticides. No more fertilizer. No more nuclear power (or any uranium at all since radiation can contaminate water technically). No more fossil fuels.
My point was that banning anything which can contaminate water is literally impossible, not that water wasn't contaminable you fucking buffoon.
you are "uneducated" or you have some financials interests on this, which is a shame on you. You compare bugs and the bio cycle plus some man made fertilizers which are food for the plants with tones of dangerous chemical (just for one place) concentrated in all these areas. You can see some very interesting videos on youtube on whats happening in these areas and into water. I don;t live in usa but Cheers, to your water :P
giannispets
Here's the thing: A, most fertilizer is made of fecal matter, which is a great contaminant, especially after say, a heavy rain, when the waters near farms run brown. Or red, because B, fertilizer is also great for cultivating bacteria (which is naturally occurring). In many rural areas in the Americas, excessive nitrogen-fixing from fertilizer results in toxic bacteria changing the color of water through pure volume. The famous example is pfiesteria piscada (from "And the Waters Turned to Blood"), which turned numerous lakes and rivers in the Eastern Seaboard U.S. into red breeding vats of nuerotoxic algae that suddenly had enough nitrogen and other nutrients to expand into the trillions and nearly ended multiple fish species due to liquefying the fish for food.
Why is this still allowed? Because much of the affected states subsist on farming, and the procedures required to beat pfiesteria would cut the region's growth into quarters or less, destroying every plant farm that needs water (which is all of them) or fertilizer (which is also all of them). In fact, the "harmful chemicals" in fertilizer are mostly to stop this kind of shit from happening, but once the -cides stop being a part of the fertilizer, like through dissolution, you get poison and the perfect bacteria breeding ground no longer being intertwined. Now you should be able to see why banning all contaminants is an issue. Unless, of course, you don't mind ending the livelihood of high tens of thousands and cutting entire state's economies apart over environmental concerns that are based on research which only a madman would call "comprehensive" or "complete". But whatever, the environment is more important than the people who we're supposed to be saving it for, right?
This is part of why in a couple million years we'll have really interesting rocks
and no more oil
or ppl
Thats why we wont be here.
@@sweepyourspeech8350 good
And no trees
I got a job "fracking" oil wells in 1961, in N. Texas. We have been fracking wells for over 50 years.
So?
The EPA released it's report last year and found that there is no danger from fracking as long as the companies don't botch sealing the wells. There is a new form of fracking as well that doesn't use the harmful chemicals but doesn't get as much gas from the rock. Newer and newer forms of oil extraction are on the way. None of them are "safe" 100%. We need to invest in large solar farms like the one in Arizona.
+Jonah Miller uh oh! Facts. Unfortunately nobody here is interested in them :(
+jagerx Seems in this day and age, people just want a big boogeyman to blame for all the worlds ills.
+Stromorph preach it!
+Jonah Miller Why solar farms? They emit no radiation.
fuck solar farms. theyre expensive and dont produce enough energy. Nuclear power is the most efficient and effective way to obtain energy. if we invested more in nuclear energy instead of the "amazing" renewable energy we wouldnt be having this debate
I feel an important note to be added is that fracking causes micro fractures in the earths crust and could very well lead to more frequent and more dramatic seismic activity. Though I'm sure this falls under the "longterm, unforeseeable" effects of fracking, its still a huge point that I was hoping to see addressed. That being said, I did learn things that I did not previously know about fracking. Great job on your videos, this is my favorite channel on CZcams.
Those cracks are not NEARLY large enough to cause any significant changes to earthquakes, their main effect would be in less stable soils, areas made of limestone and the like, would crack apart easier and collapse more often
It wouldnt make them more common, but it would make poorly constructed buildings even more dangerous
I’m gonna hold a short presentation on Fracking in my geography lesson next week, so I’ll be using this video as a start for my research. Wish me luck!
These shale layers are so far beneath water aquifers, that it would be impossible to seep up and contaminate them. The drill holes are encased in cement and steel. Any water aquifer close enough to one of these shale layers to be contaminated would be already contaminated with hydrocarbons from the shale and would be so deep that it wouldn't make sense to pump water out of it.
Exactly. This video is one of the worst examples of disinformation I've seen on CZcams
Funny how we still rely on fossil fuels, to such an extent that we would use such expensive and risky methods to extract it. We seem to be nearing a dead end road, and don't seem to be worrying about it. 🤔
we are ALL worrying about it, we're just not very good at making and implementing alternatives.
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Yeah, the problem with fossil fuels is not that we will run out, but rather the emission of greenhouse gases. That's why we should expand alternative ways of generating energy, like nuclear fission and wind turbines.
Did anyone else come here after the 5.6 Oklahoma earth quake
Funny they it didnt mention possibility of earthquakes in this vid :/
Big gap in the 'potential hazards section'...
They didn't mention many things in this video. The chemicals will carry on dissolving rocks long after the well is exhausted and it could go on for decades, they simply don't know. But hey - if it makes them a profit who gives a shit?
I think there's something very important you forgot to mention that's an effect of fracking. Fracking includes the injection of water and sand into low ground layers. Sand in low earth layers is called loose unconsolidated material. This material can strengthen the intensity of earthquakes due to its loose strength. Therefore, the more you frack the more you make an area more earthquake prone.
Oklahoma experienced this firsthand for years. Fracking causes earthquakes causes structural damage and other issues. It only stopped once we managed to force them to stop fracking in Oklahoma
@@kateajurors8640 It's the waste water being pumped underground that is causing the earthquakes mostly and not the fracking itself.
Thanks for the vid😊
You see kids, this is why you should use green energy. I am not rich, but I don't mind paying 10 bucks more a month, when this is saving our beloved environment. Stop Fracking!
go away
no
Stew_T then stop complaining like a bitch, and help pick one
pick one what?
Stew_T a green energy that isn't costly, that is efficient, that is actually clean
Thorium nuclear power plant are the way
Who's here after bob the drag queen and peppermint's meme??
Meeeeeeee
What’s the joke behind the meme though? Like why did Pep and Bob laugh so hard because Bob brought up fracking?
@@MikanBaldmiki RuPaul fracked and people found out about it
Multi Fandomer WAIT REALLY? How did people find out?
Edit: Oh damn nevermind he literally admitted to it 😂. Why the fuck is a drag queen involved in fracking?
The Bus Stop Roxxxy Andrews' was left at MONEY. Ru (like many rich people) will do anything to get richer
Why am I watching this shit, been watching your channel for hours, scared of black holes, plastic, a great filter, and now fracking. Thanks a lot.
FRACK ME MR PEANUTBUTTER
here's your first reply
Oh geez lol
Haha Just watching that episode
Wow that's I heard it first too
Decrease the population, decrease consumption.
***** unfortunately it's likely to happen just a part of progression. Lifespans are increased, population increases exponentially. Resources start to become higher in demand and more scarce. Far enough in the future it will probably lead to resource wars which will probably in the process have a severe effect on the population. Unless of course a solution is found before this can happen.
Oh yea forced abortions for all. This idiot and the 7 people thaat thumbed him up love abortion, Monsanto in our foods,cancer causing ingridients in our vaccinations and all the other ways that governments silently kill off its people for sake of "population control"
*****
Are you even real? Are you actually this fucking stupid?
Abortion is not forced upon you and it is not used as "population control". Well, only example of it being used has been China.
There are more than enough other companies than Monsanto which you can choose from. You are not forced to use their products. Hell, you need some kind of massive food source to feed the massive population which we are having. Organic food isn't enough to feed even half of our current population.
And about vaccinations. You are free to try and boycoyt vaccines if you want. The fact is that deadly diseases have been decreased by more than 80% with the use of vaccines. The epidemics we have had have been miniscule all because of vaccines. You are free to boycoyt vaccines, but don't complain if you die out from a deadly dissease. Your kids will probably love them too.
Hell, I encourage you to do this.
DarkMind95 I was about to reply to Game4war, but people like that are only going to die out if we ignore them to death. Can't teach water to a glass that's already full. -of mud. Thanks for defending common sense in my absence. ::Faith in humanity +2::
***** If it would make a worthy difference, I'd gladly give my meager life, but I'm much more useful simply not having children, and educating others well enough to do the same. Heck, while I'm alive I could potentially even exterminate a bunch of people. THanks for the encouragement :D
This video is really fracking interesting.
I love how the narrator sounds exactly the same after 8 years…
Sharing. Very good explanations of difficult subjects. Please just keep making it as true to science as humanly possible, including human and other life implications. Excellent, so far!
I love the vids you make Kurzgesagt you inspire me to go on with research and I love science......AND NEVER GIVE UP FOR SCIENCE!
I worked for a decade in the oil field I love your videos but I think this one deserves a re visit. I think this is about as informative as a grade six science fair entry.
I had to do an essay and this is one of the sources I could use, anyways I aced it, thank you Kurzgesagt!
Why the hell is the demand for oil and gas still so high when there's so much energy hitting earth from the sun?why don't we all use solar it would be much cheaper if it was invested. There is enough energy from the sun hitting earth to power everything, and more
Simply economy; gas companies make massive profits selling this stuff.
"F*** the economy!"
Okay, but that leaves several people out of jobs, and potentially out of home.
"Have them work on renewable energy companies!"
Good suggestion, but there are other issues too. Renewable energies such as hydro power and wind turbines are not ideal, since they can't be used to operate vehicles, a significant (but not largest) chunk of our CO2 emissions.
"I said solar energy!" Or "We have electric cars already!"
Finally, solar power hasn't been given a lot of research, or if it has, has not been shown in its application. Can you imagine plastering solar panels all over the Earth? Solar panel roads are great suggestion from the community, but they have hazards of their own. www.solarroadways.com/intro.shtml
Electric cars also cannot perform as well as gasoline hybrids, though for most individuals, I agree such power isn't necessary.
Nothing against solar energy and everything against gas energy, but we really aren't that competent yet. :(
Aaron Park thankfully you are wrong about vehicles, look up the Quant E sportlimousine
Seanathon James the worst part is that it's impossible. Carbon chains need carbon. We would need something completely different.
Lord Overlord
It's entirely possible to create oils from graphite. It's even easier to make oil from the leftover fat of animals that were killed to feed us, since animal fat is basically just really long carbon chains with a bit of oxygen thrown in to hydrogen bond them together for storage. Like I said though, if anyone finds a cheap, efficient way to do this, they'll be millionaires thanks to oil companies giving them money to shut them up, or they'll be dead thanks to "conspiring to bankrupt" the corrupt CEOs of oil companies.
Oil is used for many many things solar or wind energy cannot provide.
To answer your question as to why we use fossil fuel energy instead of solar energy. The answer is simple.
It. Is. Cheaper and more efficient. If there was a way to make solar and wind energy cheaper and more efficient it would happen, and will possibly happen in the future as technology advances.
"But Billy! We could just use tax power dollars to invest into solar companies so they can take over as the new world leaders in the energy business!"
Solyndra.
who else came down here to find intresting science comments?
And who found them?
Im here because im watching every video that is available on this channel.
RuPaul brought me here