Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) 2013

What can be done to measure, monitor and reduce the climate impacts of increased oil and gas production spurred by hydraulic fracturing (fracking)?

In recent years the scale of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for oil and natural gas in the United States has grown enormously. This might be positive news for efforts to mitigate climate change, since natural gas produces fewer carbon emissions than other fossil fuels in many situations, but there are also reasons for concern, including fugitive methane emissions associated with natural gas production and the carbon footprint of oils recovered through these methods. This contest seeks proposals on how to measure, monitor, and reduce the climate impacts of fracking. See more...

What:

Energy supply, Reduce emissions from hydrocarbon production, Industry

Where:

Anywhere, United States

Who:

Any Actor

How:

Any kind of action

Advisor

Judges

Fellow

15 Proposals

Dual purpose fracking / John Dowse

Increased fracking will create sites for CO2 sequestration. The gas/oil piping will be suitable for CO2 once the well is largely exhausted.

Methane-sniffing drones with distributed mobile sensors! / Ocean Foresters

States require drillers to âbuyâ wasted fuels from gas utilities. The utilities deploy methane-sniffing drones and mobile sensors.

DART-OPS-distributed real-time shared data on open platforms to drive solutions / Robert Rattle

Using big data, open platforms and distributed networks to collect, share, and analyse fracking information to drive solutions

More Research on climate impact and monitor the methane leakage / Ze Yang

Coupled Climate Model experiments and methane leakage measurement

forget the studies. refuse conspicuous consumption and grow a garden. / Null Null

Environmentally-Friendly Anti-Biofilm Biocides for Hydraulic Fracturing / Philip Domenico

Bismuth thiols may be the solution to biofilms that cause a wide range of deleterious and expensive problems for the oil and gas industry

Use fracking wells to sequester CO2 from www.skyscrubber.com / David Nicholson

A MIT paper concludes that direct capture of CO2 from the air is possible. Fracking wells can sequester the CO2 from www.Skyscrubber.com

Brainstormed Fracking Proposals / TWCWC

We brainstormed ideas on fracking to make it safer.

Monitor through NEPA/CEQA regulation / Devin Wright

Adapt currently used NEPA/CEQA regulation and policy to include fracking projects and proposals.

Reinstate federal regulation, establish moratorium until fracking science study / Norma Kline

The Bush Administration removal of regualtory authority over the use of fracking to extract natural gas no means exist to assess process.

Monitor methane / Dave Powelson

Methane emissions can increase the impact of fracking on climate change. Require that they be monitored.

Market-based Approaches to Mitigating Environmental Damage from Fracking / Norman Chonacky

Regulate fracking by coupling legal liability for environmental damage to individual operating companies. This imposes risks/costs on them.

More Transparency / Sanford Brown

Although the chemical mix used by frackers is ostensibly available to the public, this is far from the case! Make this information available

Use CO2 or Air for Hydraulic Fracturing / Rick Wilson

Use CO2 instead of water for fracking.

"Inertia Dynamics" / Johnnie Buttram

Inertia dynamics are designed to help reduce the climate impacts of hydraulic fracturing in natural gas well production.