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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by casey2 on Friday January 16, 2026 @12:04AM (#46643160)
Fracking has nothing to do with energy. When you look at EROI oil from a gusher is around ~100:1. For solar 10-25:1, wind 20-50:1, Fracking is 10:1 and most of that doesn't end up as diesel

It's useful for the plastics and petrochemical industry, but it's not going to make the country energy independent, even including battery costs wind still trounces.

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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by jtbaker on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:10AM (#46643510)
Isn't LNG a byproduct of the fracking process - and natural gas has taken over a good chunk of coal's role in our electricity generation?
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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by defrost on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:47AM (#46643704)
Extracting LNG may or may not be via fracking, and may come from conventional or unconvential fields.

The largest LNG gas fields currently producing are not being "fracked", eg:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pars/North_Dome_Gas-Cond...

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