For many decades plastic was used for numerous things such as water bottles to tires. But what concerns researchers now is the conversion of plastic to oil, without the dangers of extracting oil from the Earth. Many of us plastic is a part of our daily lives from retail to the average Joe down the street working on his garage. Some do not realize the dangers of plastic and what it has done to the planet, others, have realized the dangers and are seen as crazy conservationists. Recently, a group of researchers in China have found a way to convert raw plastic to oil. While back at home in the U.S. there are a few companies that have been working on this since the late 90’s and early 2000’s. There are several ways this conversion will benefit you.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch will be most likely one of the first plastic dumps to disappear. Which makes it a
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Then in the past few years in Oklahoma, fracking has caused a series of mini quakes. These are just some of the reasons why using the conversion of plastic to oil is safer than drilling.
The Great Pacific garbage patch is one example on why we should start recycling plastic to oil. Plastic2Oil is a company based in New York that produces three main styles of oil from plastic. Lastly the safety of the conversion is he much higher than drilling for many reasons. Although this will not be in full scale production for many years, it may be shunned by major oil companies. In the long run it would benefit us all for having a safer greener
America has been in an oil crisis for many years, it should stop. People and companies are using more oil than they should. Oil supplies are fragile. If the United States drills for oil in several other countries it would cost a lot of money and gas prices will increase. There is an option of drilling in Alaska for oil. If the United States did drill it would be cheaper because it is domestic. If the United States collected oil from Alaska's wildlife it would have an overall positive outcome.
Walking down the aisles of your local drugstore, you are bound to see rows and rows of supplements and vitamins. Many would be curious about them and their touted super health benefits, but few would actually spend the money to try one of these supplements. In some cultures, these supplements are ingested as part of a daily, natural diet, leading researchers to find why these cultures have lower instances of certain diseases. For example, villages in Northern Alaska have an incredibly low instances of heart diseases, despite having predominantly fatty diets. Researchers have found this to be due to a diet rich in fish and seal [8]. Because I am interested in village medicine in Alaska as a career, and my majors are Biochemistry and Environmental and Outdoor Education, I will detail the effects of seal oil. I am going to discuss how the structure of seal oil and unsaturated
Fracking shouldn’t be used to release oil and natural gas because it makes the airheavier and is renewable. Opponents of fracking mostly focus on the local environmentspotential consequences. The new fracking technology and other types of equipments mostlyfocus on generally to natural gas extraction. The idea of fracking first began in the 1860s and thestudy between oil and gas production output the amount of pressurized treatments being used.Fracking is the process of injecting liquid at high pressure into subterranean rocks, boreholes andmany more but they force open existing fissures and extract oil or gas. It’s important to extractoil and gas because fossil fuels formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals. Theprocess of this extractions helps close some of Earth’s surfaces and it’s
Fracking is a relatively new way of retrieving oil and natural gases from shale rock and other natural resources that reside in the earth’s core, using air and water together. Thus far it has been proven to be a quicker alternative to oil well drilling compared to conventional drilling methods. Oil and gas companies are still learning about the side effects of this elaborate process day by day. Despite a few side effects that have been discovered within the process, fracking has been very efficient and beneficial. As stated in, “Pros and Cons of Fracking: 5 Key Issues”, “Fracking saves lives, and it saves them right now and not at some indiscernible date well into the future”. (http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2015/05/pros-and-cons-of-fracking-5-key-issues/)
Oklahoma, the center of what your local meteorologist might call Tornado Alley experiences on average forty-seven twisters per year; however, surprising or not, tornados are no longer the leading climate related disturbance throughout the state. In fact, since 2008 it has become eighty percent more likely to experience an earthquake rather than a tornado in the sooner state. Hydraulic oil fracturing is the cause of all these relatively new reoccurring earthquakes. Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” is pumping millions of gallons of wastewater deep into the earth’s crust in order to release and extract oil or gas. Oil corporations throughout Oklahoma and Texas use this method of extricating oil. Fifty years ago people believed that by the year
and horizontally requiring more land needed for this process. There is a risk that with shooting these chemicals, water and sand at high pressures to fracture these hard rocks could cause a geological disturbance either from the shifting of rocks or oil and natural gases being released. This can cause a shift in the land above and create dangerous sinkholes potentially injuring or killing a person. As well as sinkholes fracking also can cause more earthquake proneness. In one case an earthquake in Oklahoma caused by drilling was responsible for the destruction of 14 homes and also a much higher frequency of earth quakes in this region (9 Good Reasons to Ban Fracking Immediately). Fracking is only increasing destruction of property and roads and increase the chances for injury to
Throughout the whole drilling process, many chemicals, and wastes release to the air. Among these chemicals, the process emits a huge amount of methane which is a very big contributor to global warming. The possibility of water contamination in fracking areas is also very immense because of the high tendency of wastes to seep back in to water supply. Rachel Richardson, a co-author of the paper from Environment America, told ThinkProgress, “For the past decade, fracking has been a nightmare for our drinking water, our open spaces, and our climate”. Researches have also revealed, as a result of the application of huge pressure in to the rocks, fracking triggers earthquake. As per MSNBC report “new study links Oklahoma earthquakes to fracking”
Techniques of the way normal drilling is done it does not produce the same results as fracking does when getting oil and gas out of the Earth. Fracking is important in the states because we are looking for more unconventional oil and natural gas resources and by drilling at those type of sites is less helpful than fracking due to fracking maximizes the return on the investment. While fracking has very good production in gathering the resources need not all things are good about fracking.
hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is widely used by the oil and gas companies in Texas and Oklahoma to produce oil and natural gas. Although hydraulic fracturing technology successfully reduces the price of energy, the scientific evidences show that it relates to frequent earthquake and water pollutions. According to a report from Newsweek Global, the Oklahoma Geological Survey states that Oklahoma only has one and a half earthquakes over 3 magnitudes per year before 2008, the year of the oil and gas companies begin to use hydraulic fracturing technology, compare to two and a half per day in 2015(MCGRATH). The United States Geological Survey (USGS) also indicates that hydraulic fracturing induce earthquakes on March 28, 2015 (MCGRATH). In addition, United States Environmental Protection Agency confirmed that the hydraulic fracturing relates to the water pollution (Banerjee).
How many times have we heard about the Shakespeare's influence? Because of the particular and flawless works of William Shakespeare, it is not surprising that why he is one of the most influential person in the literary society for more than century. Undoubtedly, there are many people willing to let their heart be broken and cry for his work over and over again. Although his body was consumed by the time, his name and spirit are still breathing in our world through the poetry, literature, book or even movie. It can be found Shakespeare's influence in every entertainment industry, especially his shortest and bloodiest tragedy like 'Macbeth', which is the most famous one. Even 'The Lion King' (1994), the Disney animated movie by Roger Allers,
The process of hydraulic fracturing has been known to cause earthquakes in the surrounding areas. "Between 1990 and 2008, Oklahoma had only three earthquakes per year that registered at 3.0 or more on the Richter scale. In 2013, Oklahoma had 109 earthquakes. That number has increased to 238 as of June 2014” (9 Good Reasons to Ban Fracking Immediately). The rate of earthquakes in Oklahoma has drastically increased since fracking begun in the state. Large quantities of highly toxic chemicals are used in hydraulic fracturing and many of the chemicals leak out into the surrounding ecosystem. Many of these chemicals are known carcinogens, and many of these chemicals are unknown and considered trade secrets of the fracking companies. The chemicals in the fracking fluid are as closely guarded as the recipe to the pink slime that we slather on Big Macs or the secret ingredient in the Coca-Cola recipe. These chemicals spread through the air, water and soil and wreak havoc on the nearby environment. Between the earthquakes and the spreading of chemicals, hydraulic fracturing is much worse for the environment than other fossil fuel extraction
Andrew Turgeon states in his last paragraph and I believe this to be the key into helping reduce the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, “Organizations such as the Plastic Pollution Coalition and the Plastic Oceans Foundation are using social media and direct action campaigns to support individuals, manufacturers, and businesses in their transition from toxic, disposable plastics to biodegradable or reusable materials” (Turgeon). I also believe with the technology we have nowadays and all of the wonderful minds in this world that we can come up with a cleanup plan to help clean up the debris without hurting our
Over the years there has been a multitude of earthquakes, which has been felt across the Great Plains Region in the United States and many other surrounding states. These states that do not normally have seismic activities are experiencing an increase of quakes near oil and natural gas sites. Many of the states that have not felt the seismic activities are now experiencing earthquakes. As a result there has been new research that has been devoted to the effects of hydraulic fracking. Hydraulic fracking is a technique that uses pressurized water to to break apart the shale and extract oil and gas. The fossil fuels that
In today’s society, you see an outstanding amount of homelessness in the streets with no sign of stopping anytime in the near future. These numbers continue to climb with the majority of people blaming it on the homeless individual either being too lazy to get a college (sometimes even high school) degree, too lazy to go and at least try to get a job or a combination of both. With this thought process in mind, you could say people are oblivious to the deinstitutionalization of thousands of mentally ill patients put out into the streets due to America’s corrupted economic system. But the truth is, people are usually just more drawn to either make fun of them or just walk right by them without batting an eye purely based off the different types of media that are being put out for anybody to see at anytime. The media has played a key role in the public’s perception of homeless people, as well as the increase in the number of homeless people present. Though there are some organizations in the US trying to help combat the rising homeless numbers, the current stereotype of homeless individuals has led the majority of the country to make comedic meme’s, videos and other variations of media to bring down the homeless community and not raise awareness, but bring up their own perception of the homeless to the rest of the country. This only causes one big snowball effect for the perception of
ON the other hand if it is properly recycled we are able to reuse the same plastic over and over again for long periods of time while at the same time keeping a low production cost This is why plastic is cheap even though it contains oil a very high priced item, for as long as people do their best to not waste plastic and recycle it there really is not a need to waste our precious oil and manufacture more of it.