Hey Bill Nye, "Are You For or Against Fracking?" | Big Think.

I nearly died when he said "Soup Woman".

This is how I answer questions when I'm stoned

"I have a question" *Asks 8 questions* "Thank you for answering my question"

So basically the solution is to tax the crap out of anything that pollutes and then to use it to subsidize renewable energy?

When he gets a bit distracted on the subject and goes off on a small tangent explaining something, i just love it. He's so nerdy and charming. Also, "soup woman" i died laughing.

We have a "Quarry Battery" here in the UK. It pumps water uphill into a high altitude lake at night when the electricity is cheaper and there is less demand - and during periods of high demand (Usually everyone making a cup of tea during the adverts of something popular on TV) it lets the water flow back down though a hydroelectric power station. It can go from 0 to full power output in 15 seconds and can power a large city. A very efficient way of storing a large amount of energy.

so he never actually answered the question "Are You For or Against Fracking?" but he sounded pro if it was regulated

I was a Petroleum engineer and at the start of my career, I worked as a production engineer that designed fracking jobs. Later I was a Reservoir engineer and did computer simulations. This was back in the early 1980's. Back then, we did have directional drilling, but didn't have the very short radius direction drilling, with extremely accurate ability to steer the drill bit. We did frack jobs that were sort of like stabs in the dark, as far as where the fracking was going. In the two shale formations we fracked California, we just did huge, giant, stupidly big frack jobs, millions of lbs of sand(and millions of dollars) and row after row of huge tanks full of gelled fracking water. We didn't know the directions the fracture were growing and the heights they were growing. Hydraulic fracture grow like two "D's" enlarging away from the well bore, the "D" getting both more bulged out but also growing in height. The directions were only guesses, and have to do with the regional tectonic stress conditions in the rock at the reservoir level. Ideally, the fractures would intersect the natural fracture system, but that's not how it works. The natural fractures almost always go the same as the induced fractures. When short radius directional drilling was developed in the late 1980's(by Arco, where I worked), this allowed steering the well bore to go perpendicular to the direction of natural fractures(and what induced fractures will grow with huge hydraulic energy flogged at the well formations). The technology to steer the well drilling got better and better in the 1990s with microprocessor technology. With a directionally short radius well, it is possible to go into an old well, mill out the casing enough to kick off a new horizontal well bore exactly in the perfect direction to intersect natural fractures, and to make one giant, stab in the dark fracture job become a surgically precise directional horizontal well, that can be fractured in many many small frack jobs that all stay right exactly where we want them. That's why fracking is so big now. The technology, the blunt, stab in the dark technology goes back to the 1960's. It didn't work all that well. The new fracking is incredibly precise and mostly, high successful and lucrative, and old dead wells can get incredible new life, plus new wells are rapidly paid out. Hence the US is now almost energy independent, and we now have a 100+ year supply of natural gas from tight shales. And the fracking is so much safer than it used to be. This is part of why many oil people don't understand the hatred. We are doing it so much better now, or rather, it used to be so nasty, dirty and uncontrolled.

Way to go for using metric. -Love from Europe

Every time I hear Bill say "Change the world" my faith in this world is restored.

0:30 I can't be the only American that went "Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!"

I have always dreamed about writing a master thesis about how much energy we could generate from the millions of gym's in the world, who largely use friction or air as resistance, which just create wasted heat. Imagine if every spinning bike in the world used a variable dynamo as resistance instead, and similar for the weight machines. I'm not saying it would change the world, but I think it would at least make every gym on the planet net positive on the grid, basically making every gym a micro power plant. And all this with energy we are already generating, but currently wasting!

Out of context quoting "stir it up, soup woman" - Bill Nye

I like Bill Nye because of his objective approach to issues, he seems more concerned with what works rather then kowtowing to an underlying liberal or conservative agenda.

I love how he says "I mean I did it my whole life, I mean hey man."

Question:Is fracking bad Bill:gets into working at boeing

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The percentage of fracking that is safe is the same as the percentage of oil executives who have their homes and offices right next to a fracking operation. 0%.

Bruh we need that renewable energy shit right quick

"I mean, hey man" lmao that line is officially stoner-approved 5:11