Comments on: New Mobile Methane Surveyor Could Put An End To The Fracking Debate http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/05/new-mobile-methane-surveyor-could-put-an-end-to-the-fracking-debate/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 19:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: John Baker http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/05/new-mobile-methane-surveyor-could-put-an-end-to-the-fracking-debate/#comment-204507 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 14:33:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49129#comment-204507 How long before corporate oil wises up to the opportunities eg bribing anyone involved in the ‘Surveyor mobile methane emission and detection and analysis platform’?

]]> By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/05/new-mobile-methane-surveyor-could-put-an-end-to-the-fracking-debate/#comment-198788 Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:12:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49129#comment-198788 You can always check the address line in your browser window – 2013/03/05.

]]> By: John Baker http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/05/new-mobile-methane-surveyor-could-put-an-end-to-the-fracking-debate/#comment-198787 Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:10:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49129#comment-198787 No date on this article.

]]> By: Scott Cannon http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/05/new-mobile-methane-surveyor-could-put-an-end-to-the-fracking-debate/#comment-196396 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 14:57:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49129#comment-196396 Can these devices stop the industrialization of our residential area?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myzGaZfeyYI&feature=share&list=PL062539BFB8A2B2D4&index=10

]]> By: Scott Cannon http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/05/new-mobile-methane-surveyor-could-put-an-end-to-the-fracking-debate/#comment-196394 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 14:54:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49129#comment-196394 It’s foolish to proceed with fracking when we do NOT know if it is sustainable.

]]> By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/05/new-mobile-methane-surveyor-could-put-an-end-to-the-fracking-debate/#comment-153756 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:44:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49129#comment-153756 ” There isn’t enough land in the US for solar or wind or enough windmills out in the ocean to fully supply the country’s needs in terms of energy”

That is wildly incorrect. Just absolutely absurd.

If we powered the entire US, both transportation and electricity with wind the turbines, access roads and necessary structures would take about as much space as three Disney Worlds..

]]> By: Corey Eckenroth http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/05/new-mobile-methane-surveyor-could-put-an-end-to-the-fracking-debate/#comment-153743 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:06:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49129#comment-153743 I’m all for a nation of clean energy, but what is the bridge to get us there? Oil? No, it’s life cycle here in the states is almost over. There isn’t enough land in the US for solar or wind or enough windmills out in the ocean to fully supply the country’s needs in terms of energy. Nat Gas is that bridge. There is enough in the Marcellus play and the Utica play, which is twice as big as the Marcellus play, to make the Saudis look dirt poor. It burns 6x cleaner than oil, and we already have an infrastructure to support it. A simple $2k swap in a vehicles fuel delivery system will be the only change to your current vehicle. Here is the big kicker. Fed ex and UPS are already switching their vehicles to it, not to mention most garbage haulers. If they are doing it, how long do you think it will be before everyone else is. To go the same comparable distance on a gallon of gas to a “gallon” of Nat Gas (liquid to gas state measures are not the same, so you can’t compare them directly without doing some conversions), here in PA a gallon of gas is 3.75. A comparable gal of Nat Gas is around 2.40 and dropping. Which would you rather pay?

]]> By: Karel Phillips http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/05/new-mobile-methane-surveyor-could-put-an-end-to-the-fracking-debate/#comment-153713 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:35:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49129#comment-153713 The debate can not be singled to fugitive methane emissions. This negates the combustion emissions, water footprint, land footprint, habitat loss, displacement of food production, greenhouse gas life cycle assessment, public access to information and a choice in their energy future and the diversion of funds away from low carbon energy sources. How long can we continue to use the air, soil and water as a medium to assimilate pollution with an acceptable level being perceived as normal and every compartment either fulled to the legal limit or in violation. This energy source is unsustainable.

]]> By: Otis11 http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/05/new-mobile-methane-surveyor-could-put-an-end-to-the-fracking-debate/#comment-153664 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:48:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49129#comment-153664 Good video that’s fairly neutral on fracking: http://youtu.be/51wOisfdIPo

]]> By: SmellsLikeMarketing http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/05/new-mobile-methane-surveyor-could-put-an-end-to-the-fracking-debate/#comment-153655 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:36:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49129#comment-153655 Agree with logicld. This barely scratches the surface of the problems with fracking, most glaringly in that it doesn’t address any of the water concerns.

]]> By: Wayne Williamson http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/05/new-mobile-methane-surveyor-could-put-an-end-to-the-fracking-debate/#comment-153652 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:33:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49129#comment-153652 Been gone from this site for a year(when they changed to feedburner). Glad to be getting the emails again. Interesting to see how the posters have changed…looks like anti anything but pure green.
Nice article Andrew, keep it up.
To the posters, even in a solar/wind/geo economy you will need an energy source that can quickly supply baseline when nature fails. Natural gas seems to fit the bill as long as it is regulated and monitored.

]]> By: not the end http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/05/new-mobile-methane-surveyor-could-put-an-end-to-the-fracking-debate/#comment-153641 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:25:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49129#comment-153641 ‘fugitive emissions’ is only part of the problem with fracking. furthermore, it seems that it would require either constant driving/monitoring or else a bunch of sensors across the countryside, hooked up to an alert/notification system and the necessary maintenance to go with it long term. this, however, would do nothing for the failure of a well or migration of frack fluids into the water column, or the thousands of gallons of diesel burned to ferry water to a well, or the destruction of roadways in well infested areas or the extra diesel burned by repair crews to fix the roads and the fossil fuels to make the asphalt, or the boom to bust of unprepared communities.

So in other words, NO, this technology won’t be putting an end to the fracking debate.

@logicid, I think you’re right on with your comment. This article has the odor of being a little to close to the source of the fugitive emissions.

]]> By: Peter Sharma III http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/05/new-mobile-methane-surveyor-could-put-an-end-to-the-fracking-debate/#comment-153640 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:10:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49129#comment-153640 GFYS! There is no ethical petroleum or gas.

]]> By: logicld http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/05/new-mobile-methane-surveyor-could-put-an-end-to-the-fracking-debate/#comment-153618 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:02:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49129#comment-153618 What does this have to do with clean renewable energy sources ? I don’t care about the natural gas industry improving their efficiency or trying to pretend they are a viable long term source of energy. They are part of the problem, not the solution. If there was a negative rating system on this site this article would get one.

]]> By: JMin2020 http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/05/new-mobile-methane-surveyor-could-put-an-end-to-the-fracking-debate/#comment-153606 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:10:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49129#comment-153606 This would put some strong evifence in the hands of Attorneys on either side of a case wouldn’t it. I see it as a plus. For the most part methane gets generated through improper or ignored and incomplete geological survey data. Naturally occurring seismological events woulf then need to be identified as such as a secondary technology development for safe and proper fracking procesd practices.

]]> By: JustSaying http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/05/new-mobile-methane-surveyor-could-put-an-end-to-the-fracking-debate/#comment-153602 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:18:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49129#comment-153602 The first time I saw the Boston study, I thought that we needed a lot of those vans driving all the major pipeline and production fields. Maybe there should be a requirement to map before you start drilling, so then we would have a before and after and it would be clear the impact.

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