I was waiting for this. It's a scaling problem, just like huge Artie data centres. It can only go so far.
I had fun watching the Oklahoma earthquakes. They got to the point that any injection immediately caused earthquakes. Their mechanism was working towards a New Madrid-style monster earthquake.
Now Texas is in the same dilemma. Every barrel of wastewater causes an earthquake. The old ladies with their knick-knacks being shattered can't stand it. A mechanism is forming so that the earthquakes are getting bigger and bigger. I was waiting for it, but it looks like they are stopping, just like Oklahoma. Darn.
This winter, they will run out of stored natgas, or next, who knows? It's one of those huge things that might shatter the clange groupthink.
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Just postulating: but if nat gas dries up, evaporates, dissipates, all energy prices will rise?
Peter of the hummin lines
natgas feeds electricity in the states. Oil and gas heaters are the only thing left. This will be have a huge effect, but maybe next year, depends on the Arctic. Canada is fine, they'll pay through the nose for Canadian natgas, but we can't shove them that much due to pipeline capacity. New York depends on Quebec electricity for space heaters, but the demand will blow things up.
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