Now That Connecticut Has Banned Fracking, Will The State Ban Flaring? -- January 15, 2015

Updates

February 5, 2015: 136 active rigs:

 

Original Post

 

What the North Dakota Bakken looks like today, 156 rigs (January 15, 2015):

 We will compare this graphic with the 3Q15 graphic later in the year.

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Myfoxny is reporting: the quakes continue. Despite the ban on fracking, the earthquakes continue shaking Connecticut:

A 2.2-magnitude earthquake has rattled eastern Connecticut again.

In what's becoming a daily seismic event, the Weston Observatory of Boston College said the earthquake occurred at about 4:40 a.m. Thursday near Plainfield, where previous earthquakes were recorded.

It says two minor earthquakes were recorded on Wednesday and another on Tuesday.
Several were recorded on Monday and last week, too.

The observatory says that while the greatest earthquake activity in the United States is in the west, earthquakes are "quite common" in many areas of the eastern United States, including New England.

I guess that's why all the reporting of these earthquakes; they are actually quite common in New England. If so, why just Connecticut? Why not Massachusetts? Rhode Island? Vermont? And all this time I thought they were related to fracking.

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Wind Energy In NYC

$7,500 In Annual Costs And $750,00 Up Front Will Get You Enough Electricity For Two Houses For A Year

The New York Times reports --

In less than a month of operation, the first large-scale wind turbine to be installed in New York City, standing more than 160 feet tall, has produced enough energy to power two homes for over a year, or one 20-watt light bulb for over a century.

But this turbine, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, was built to help power a recycling plant on a pier at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal. It is expected to provide 4 percent of the energy used by the plant, which is owned and operated by Sims Metal Management, an Australian company.

A full-page story for a single wind turbine that will provide four (4) percent -- repeat, 4% -- of the energy used by a recycling plant. Cost: $750,000. 

Don has done the math:

Use 1% interest on the money for electricity, %750,000 x .01 = $ 7,500 for electricity for two (2) houses for 1 year.  Wow what a bargain, but I think this is still cheaper then Solyndra (bankruptcy declared and ceased all business activity on September 1, 2011).

And at that price -- it provides all of 4 percent the amount of energy the recycling plant needs. By the way, the utility needs to provide additional back-up power for those periods when the wind is blowing too fast or to slow.

Bottom line: the wind turbine was someone's hobby horse.

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The Ferguson problem:

From Carpe Diem. 

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Really?

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