cwerdna
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Sorry to resurrect an old thread...
Skip to about 9:15 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WAKuyLNL-k" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Crazy! If they only could generate electricity from that and run it to areas that could use it instead of wastefully burning it, generating no useful work.
I didn't realize that flaring waste was so bad until NBR had some recent coverage of it.Yodrak said:From today's New York Times (27 Sept 2011):
Gas Flaring in North Dakota
Every day across the western half of North Dakota 100 million cubic feet of natural gas is deliberately burned by oil companies rushing to extract oil from the Bakken shale field and take advantage of the high price of crude. The gas bubbles up alongside the oil, and with less economic incentive to capture it, the drillers treat the gas as waste and simply burn it. (the underline is mine)
Skip to about 9:15 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WAKuyLNL-k" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Crazy! If they only could generate electricity from that and run it to areas that could use it instead of wastefully burning it, generating no useful work.