Did I ever tell y'all abt my college friend attending an info seminar that gave a physics-based defense of fracking https://twitter.com/joelmmathis/status/806664460345757697 …
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I still can't believe anyone actually said this but he assures me it's true
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"It's not true that fracking causes earthquakes. This is a misconception. Fracking doesn't use anywhere near enough energy as an earthquake"
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"Instead, earthquakes are caused by the existing potential energy locked into the subsurface structure of a region"
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"Fracking merely releases that potential energy. It does not cause the earthquake, merely triggers it happening at that time"
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For science buffs, an analogy: "The amount of force I used to push that man off a ledge wasn't nearly enough to shatter his spine"
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"The potential energy that reduced him to a spatter of bloody gore was inherent in the system of him being on the roof"
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"Logically he would have come down from the roof sooner or later. I merely triggered its occurrence in one specific way"
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This is the pinnacle of making an argument that is technically true but utterly pointless. I honestly can't think of how you could top it
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Fracking seems to attract a lot of nerds who like to make "technically!" arguments that have nothing to do with why it's bad
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Fracking is one of those things where to a naive ignorant layman it would seem an incredibly dangerous thing to do, and that's because it is
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But that makes it irresistible for nerds to try to buck the conventional wisdom
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"This is extremely hard to do safely" is catnip for engineers. See: the entire manned space program.
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