While Oklahoma's fossil fuel industry continues apace, the state also has the potential to grow its renewable energy profile (cropped, courtesy of Oklahoma Corporation Commission).
The US state of Oklahoma is Exhibit A in the case for the renewable energy transition. Oklahoma has done a good job of exploiting its wind energy resources, but its deep roots in the oil and gas industry keep popping up to haunt its people with polluted air, water, and … [continued]
ChatGPT generated panoramic montage of a Gulf Coast ammonia plant complex with smokestacks and tanks contrasted against distant ultramafic mountain belts
Engineered mineral hydrogen is an elegant idea. Water reacts with iron rich magnesium and iron rich, silica poor igneous rock — ultramafic — from Earth’s mantle rocks to release hydrogen, and with the right chemistry and temperature you can raise reaction rates and collect a clean product. In the lab … [continued]
ChatGPT generated a panoramic image of a contaminated wastewater geyser erupting from an abandoned site, surrounded by dead trees and scorched earth—an eerie illustration of shale industry's self-inflicted environmental pressure
The shale industry is facing an entirely predictable consequence of its own making. Across major shale-producing basins, particularly East Texas and the Permian, excessive wastewater injection practices have created areas with extreme overpressure, driving up the cost of new drilling operations and threatening the economic viability of shale production in … [continued]
Texas wants to use recycled wastewater from fracking operations to irrigate crops within the state. What could possibly go wrong?
A fight is developing in Texas over access to water in aquifers deep beneath the Earth, pitting private rights against the public good.
Energy dominance means big profits for oil and gas companies but impaired health for many Americas who will be harmed by toxic waste.
In the past couple of months, an idea has been percolating through Washington and entities dependent on the United States’ good will that the US should reach back into history and create a Clean Energy Marshall Plan for developing countries. This idea is US economic wunderkind Brian Deese’s brainchild, or … [continued]
Fracking is big business in West Texas, but irreparable damage to the Earth and groundwater is a result. Who pays to clean up the mess?
For the past year, a preprint paper has been undergoing one of the most public, rancorous and extensive peer-review processes in the history of US academics. Is it on race relations? Tax cuts for the rich? Hollywood starlets? No, it’s on liquified natural gas (LNG) emissions of greenhouse gases. The … [continued]
Vice President Kamala Harris said a thing about fracking, a key technology for the US geothermal energy industry as well as the oil and gas industry.
