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Water, you broke it… wait … what are you doing?!?!?
fracking.
I saw a documentary about this. People that live near oil wells have this result in their water. Natural gas is in the water.
Yeah…thats wrong. People have been drilling wells in gas-rich areas of the US for many, many years. Like, back when these parts were settled. Anyway, the gas makes it in with the water, and BABOOM you can light it on fire. Fracking is safe. The drill tube is filled with concrete to prevent contamination. Its just the way the chemicals are handled on the surface that makes it potentially unsafe.
Fracking is absolutely not safe; filling the drill tube with concrete only has the effect of increasing the amount of concrete in the drill tube. The problem is fracturing of rock at deep levels that creates often-unpredictable crack propagation allowing stuff to come up to shallower levels and affect groundwater.
These problems don’t exist *to the same degree* in “normal” drilling, where you’re boring through capping layers that are often otherwise impermeable. In any case, it’s not a regulated practice, and not one whose oversight should be left in the hands of oil & gas company management. Trust me, I do my research in a geology department, with lots of industry links. These are not people you want making decisions about fracking.
^ This
Who the frack cares? Let the courts work it out.
People have not been fracking since the area was settled – fracking started in 2005 when the “Halliburton Loophole” made it legal. Before that there was no fracking. It’s a new method of resource extraction, one that is very destructive and contaminates surrounding areas.
Gods damn fracking cylons did it again!
Ah, the joys of cooking with alcohol…you’re doing it wrong. Alcohol is supposed to go into your mouth, not the tap or the pot of spaghetti
You’re are a disgrace to all the women!
I don’t know.. This has man written all over it.
What country?
Holy crap, flammable water.
OP should move away from where he lives.. that’s just disturbing
I saw this on an episode of Emergency: Squad 51.
A utility crew was trying to flush out a gas line using a fire hydrant. They did not hook up an anti-back-flow valve and thus the higher pressure gasoline flowed into the water system. People watering their yards soon had a fire when a lit cigarette was tossed down (see smoking is bad for you).
Actually, while that is possible, the most common cause of this phenomena is hydrogen buildup it the water heater, which occurs when the water has not been used in a residence for an extended period. This happens a lot on military bases where they often close down entire housing buildings while the troops are over-seas. You can easily prevent this by turning off the water to the house if you plan to be gone longer than a month.
For interesting stories about this particular fail, Google “Exploding Dishwasher”
He played way too much “The Sims”
Natural gas line contaminating the water?
How the hell is dry pasta flammable??
because it has calories, pretty much everything you eat can be set on fire.
Flour is highly flammable: in fact, it’s explosive. Pasta is basically made from flour.
We should use pasta in the war.
Just start throwing it at terrorists after setting it on fire.
Terrorists = Pwned.
Pasta shells?
Actually, dry pasta makes a fantastic “match” for lighting candles that have wicks really far down in a vase or whatever. Just light the tip on your gas stove (or a lighter) and then light the candle. No burnt fingers ever!
I suspect this person had their gas stove up way too high and the pasta caught on fire.
Typical result of shale gas exploitation…
yeah, I remember seeing this news story.
Fracking. Expect to see a lot more of this, all while their lawyers are explaining patiently that fracking is perfectly safe.
Sir or madam, please watch your language while attending FailNation. That sort of talk might be acceptable on the Galactica, but we set higher standards here. Thank you for your compliance.
Da frack.
Most of the country will not believe it till it affects them.
Most of the country won’t believe it until you prove that fracking incidents are more than isolated events. Being chicken little about it isn’t going to bring people to your cause.
Why be rational when you can run around like a madman, screaming about Big Oil causing the End Of The World? Being rational doesn’t get you any attention. Or any profit.
Very true.
Glad we agree on something finally.
Why are you mumbling about big oil and the end of the world, when this is about gas in the water supply?
This may be true, but when it’s YOUR tap water that burns, and the oil companies are insisting they have nothing to do with it when they plainly do, you can’t be blamed for being just a TAD upset.
It could be a hell of a lot safer if they didn’t cut corners at every step. But, big oil companies have always done that and always will.
You see it as a bad thing. I see it as free energy. Buy a large tank, allow water and methane to separate and vent that tank into a bladder to hold the methane. Compress the methane with a weight and get a gas stove. Woowho free natural gas to cook with.
The first picture is someone cooking over a gas burner and is using too shallow of a pot and has the flame turned up too high.
The second video is a short loop, and an obvious setup.
Thank you, exactly what I came for
Is that how Adele cooks her spaghetti ?
I laughed out loud at this comment. XD
Well Played.
I laughed. Out loud. At this.
I think these images are from this movie:
I did something like this the first time I cooked on a gas stove. First I couldn’t work out why the spaghetti hanging over the side of the pan was going brown, then black, then…oh, it’s on fire. Oh yeah, there’s a fire underneath, cooking it. Ah, we live and learn.
Gasland is a hoax.
Fracking is performed at depths of 5000-6000 feet below the surface. The strata between the fractured shale and the water table consist of impermeable rock.
Your water table is at about 200-500 feet below the surface. If you have gas in your water, your well was dug or sealed improperly, or a natural shift has exposed a SURFACE gas pocket.
Come ON, people. You all think you’re smart. Use your heads. The FACTS are out there if you look for them. Playing Chicken Little and buying into sensationalism isn’t the way to go.
Wow, you ask a lot of people, don’t you?
Stop listening to Messiah, His Holiness Maobama, stop listening to the Right Reverend Prophet of Climate Change Al Gore, stop buying into the Libtard Demoncrat mantra, stop drinkin’ the Kool-aid, and start thinking for themselves.
Aw, we used the same analogy about chicken little
Nice to see someone on here who will actually question the hysterics coming out of fracking opponent’s mouths.
That isn’t to say fracking isn’t dangerous, it’s to say they have to actually prove their claims rather than simply make them.
Gasland is not a hoax, and the facts you “cite” are not there.
The FACTS I cited:
1) Drinking water table is at a depth of 200-500 feet.
2) Hydraulic fracturing of shale is done at depths of 5000-6000 feet.
There are the facts. Care to refute them? Or do you expect me to believe that something would go through thousands of feet of impermeable stone rather than along the path of least resistance, which is up the pipe?
As long as there are people who accept what sensationalists show them without thinking for themselves, people will continue to believe what they don’t understand.
“Or do you expect me to believe that something would go through thousands of feet of impermeable stone rather than along the path of least resistance, which is up the pipe?”
emmmmm ………. ever heard of oil???? Oh you say oil ALWAYS goes by pipes ……right? it never, EVER burst trough soil!!! right? it never goes through hundreds of miles of hard and impermeable stone………. seriously?!?!?!
ever heard of lava???? what about boiling water (as in geysers)??? they all go by pipes…….. right?
hysteric sensationalists is bad, I agree, but blind denial (masked as scientific facts) is just as bad.
Some water wells are NATURALLY contaminated with methane gas. There are plenty of confirmable reports of similar to what is shown that pre-date hydraulic fracturing.
Lava is molten rock under moderate pressure. It goes wherever it damn well pleases. But to the best of my knowledge, there are no “pipes” in Old Faithful, just Nature’s own version of hydraulic fracturing.
Water in most water tables flows at rates of feet per YEAR. Even if “fracking” is contaminating as claimed, the underground pressures would still limit flow to feet per MONTH at worst.
“hysteric sensationalists is bad,” then stop being one.
Oil is under pressure. if it’s at the surface it will permeate the earth. Usually it is not though. Also, keep in mind continental shift causes movement of rock under the surface of the earth.
Lava doesn’t travel by pipe. Lava also isn’t under the earth. Lava is Magma that has come out of the earth already. Magma is what you’re thinking of, I believe.
speaking of magma, geysers are superheated because the water source (just like hot springs) is close to a pocket of Magma closer to the surface than others, and thus geothermal heating allows the water to be heated up.
seriously, think before you type.
The only thing your facts leave us to believe is that you are drilling THROUGH the water table to get the gas below it. The process involves pressures that could logically push some of that crap sitting a mile down into the water table above it.
Or do the laws of physics just elude you?
Okay, you have invented your own theory, well, self proclaimed expert for Geology google for natural Radon-contaminations. This is a radioactive gas, that diffunds out of the ground in certain areas. The issue is basically the same. The gas diffunds out of some layers ans moves slowly upwards. Radon, having the number 86 in the periodic table is much heavier than methane (CH4). The only difference is, that fracking causes gas emissions in a much larger scale.
I do not know if you have ever been to a mining site or even lived somewhere near an area with minimal mining activities, otherwise you would know, that the ground is not a mass similar to concrete. There are always cracks and so called “hydrological ladders”, that create a way between the layers. The emission of Methane can be observed at most coal mines where this gas can cause explosions in the mines. If everything work alright, it will just rise upwards through the mine itself and many small cracks in the ground, which will lead it to the surface, although in a much smaller quantity.
Just btw: Air is heavier than methane, so methane can easily rise up to the ground.
I’m sorry, but you’re badly misinformed about geology. Yes, some of the other posters here are a bit confused as well, but they’re right about one thing: fracking can cause serious problems.
Hydraulic fracturing of shale creates cracks that can pass through the impermeable layers that normally keep gas and oil capped and underground. By fracturing the shale, you essentially remove the cap. You make something impermeable into something that is permeable.
That is how “breaking” works.
Rearry! Are you nuts or a shill? Wells 50 years old without gas, but as soon as it’s fracked…gas. Stop eating the propaganda.
Paid shill. No one with a brain or conscience would eat up so readily what the oil industry wants us to believe.
So how much are they paying you?
I don’t know about him, but I’m getting FIVE BEEEEEEELION DOLLARSSSS!!!!111!1!1!ELEVENTY!!!!
RIght, a “natural” shift. No possible way fracking could cause an unnatural shift.
There’s your problem right there, the tap is turned all the way to “hot”.
HA! you win.
Pasta must be put in BOILING WATER, at set the fire at half size.
i saw lots of idiots putting it in the water, and THEN wait for boiling. LOL
also, you need to put a spoon of salt in the water while it’s boiling and then put pasta
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Putting pasta in boiling water isn’t a MUST. It’s a should/can, but not a MUST. I cook my mac and cheese all the time by putting the pasta and water in together, then boiling-ish it. Oddly enough, it tastes the same as when I’ve boiled the water then put the pasta in it.
Also…you don’t NEED to salt the water. It raises the boiling temperature, but it’s negligible.
I wonder if you’re the really annoying girl I used to live with at uni who’d hover at my shoulder when I was cooking and tell me I was doing it wrong. Actually, you do not have to put pasta in boiling water. I don’t, and my friends & family love my pasta dishes. And I don’t put salt in anything I cook unless I have to, because there is more than enough salt in everyone’s diet these days…
@HeadHunter67
its not the act of fracking itself, not the release of the gas. its the disposal of the chemical they use to frack thats the problem. when they don’t dispose of it properly, it seeps into the land and ground water, into the wells or water system and people end up with flammable, chemically toxic water they can’t drink.
The gas release should indeed stop after some time. The fracturing does not seem to work locally, it looks as if it would weaken the ground layers in the whole area and make most of the gas disapear through the ground into the atmosphere. This would explain, why the guy in the video has more gas than water in his faucet.
never let derpy do your plumbing
“Derpy, why is my faucet aflame?
and why is my fireplace now a waterfall?”
“I just don’t know what went wrong!” 6u9;
The two pictures are unrelated. I doubt they are from the same location.
The fire is clearly the spaghetti overhanging the pot and getting heated by the burner jets coming out past the side of the pot. This pot is not the right size for this burner, it should be put on a smaller burner and will boil more efficiently.
I have singed pasta this way several times (not quite to flaming, as I caught it before it got too bad). There is no natural gas in my plumbing.
Can you see the spaghetti leaning to the right of the picture and sharply bent where it has turned white from the heat coming from the gas flame? Also notice there is no flame inside the rim of the pot.
Thank goodness someone said this…Phew. And yes, spaghetti is highly flammable. I’ve used it to light some hard to reach candles. Everyone, try it sometime.
oh those pasta-fireworks we used to set……… the memories…….
What the FRACK?
Try spamming with proper sentence structure next time.
“She was fired five months ago” not “she has been fired for 5 months”. You make it sound like she kept going back to work despite being terminated.
Where are the mods these days?
Fail for sure. Never seen that happen.
Oh, I’m so glad to have totally safe fracking explained.
“1) Drinking water table is at a depth of 200-500 feet.”
“2) Hydraulic fracturing of shale is done at depths of 5000-6000 feet.”
I knew it. I’m just imagining all the pictures like these and all the other videos and news stories.
Just one last question. When you drill through the drinking water table at 200-500 feet and of course don’t touch the water or interfere with it’s ‘containment’, and when you set off the charges that create all kinds of fracturing underground, how again do you stop any of the cracks from coming near the water table that you never touched as you were crashing through?
well i suppose if you get anything hot enough it will burn
In Soviet Russia …
Yeah My Ex managed to do this once, to much oil in the water and badda bing badd boom, flaming water.
my sink pours fire your argument is invalid.
Shale Gas
Oh my god! The water is infected! With FIRE!!
~inb4aquateenhungerforce