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Mark Capron

Jun 30, 2013
06:34

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My methane sniffing drones would be an incentive to employ your leak-prevention technique.

Johnnie Buttram

Jun 30, 2013
07:19

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Mark, I completely agree these two strategies could work together to reduce atmospheric pollution! I wish gas well engineers would step forward to either confirm or deny whether the "Inertia Dynamics" strategy is a workable theory.

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Jul 1, 2013
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The broad strategy behind this proposal is a promising direction to be heading - figuring out new, more effective ways to prevent methane emissions from natural gas development using hydraulic fracturing is a crucial part of reducing the overall climate impacts of these operations. "Inertia Dynamics" is possibly an interesting contribution to the discussion, although it was a little difficult to assess its potential in this entry, since the theory behind the proposal was mostly left implicit. With a little more explanation of the "inertia dynamics" concept, the causal role it plays in methane emissions from natural gas production, and the theory on which the proposed steps would alter that role, the proposal would have the explanatory basis to evaluate the idea on its merits and determine its potential for reducing the climate impacts of natural gas production that uses hydraulic fracturing.