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To: Alighieri who wrote (616754)	6/20/2011 3:24:15 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575607

In several states people are complaining of contaminated water True, but there is no evidence to suggest such contamination has occurred. Most of the complaints seem to originate with uninformed leftwingers who saw the bogus clip from "Gasland" and assumed it to be in some way related to fracking. The idiots running my state's oil & gas commission have shut down fracking in one area on the absurd basis that it may be causing earthquakes. There is mass hysteria about fracking that is evne more ridiculous than the Climate Chaos nonsense, none of which is supportable by scientific evidence. ...others are complaining about the big rigs barreling through rural roads 24/7 Well, I hate those big trucks carrying wind turbine parts, too. But it is a fact of life. Personally, as a mineral owner, I am very pleased to have fracking trucks traversing our property daily. ...nothing is without impact and we don't yet know what the impact will be from fracking large scale (you do of course)... As previously pointed out, something like 300,000 frac jobs have been completed and there is scant evidence to suggest that there are significant problems with the process. Nothing has zero impact and all technologies are assessed for impact...but common sense would tell one that covering 6000 acres of desert with parabolic mirrors has minimal consequence...certainly less than injecting nasty chemicals deep into the soil of rural america. First, 6000 acres of desert is sufficient to supply electricity for 1/4-1/2 day to < 500,000 homes. And that 6,000 acres is ecologically devastated into perpetuity. I would argue that 6,000 acres of desert is at least as valuable as 6,000 acres in ANWR. You see, it just depends on whose ox is being gored. I am quite sure that, if not closely regulated, fracking would be akin to strip mining or worse, a water contamination hell. I'm sorry, but strip mining today, in many areas, is far less harmful than 6,000 acres of solar arrays. I can show you huge strip mines that, if you hadn't been there when it happened, you would never know it occurred. At 25c/W from your utility and in the proper geography lots of people ARE interested. And fortunately there are open minded people out there to counter the regressive redneck effect. Just let me know when it makes financial sense, WITHOUT GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY, to own these devices. I don't want to make money at it. I simply want it to cover its own cost, which no solar panel in existence today can even come CLOSE to doing.