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It's not gone it just becomes groundwater. Sure we won't see it back in any of our life times, but it's not as if we're going to run out any time soon. In that
by contravariant 10y ago
It's not gone it just becomes groundwater. Sure we won't see it back in any of our life times, but it's not as if we're going to run out any time soon.
In that respect fusion would be far more permanent.
- DasIch 10y agoIsn't the very reason fracking is claimed to be safe, that the water is pumped significantly below groundwater level? If that's the case how does it turn into groundwater, is it rising upwards?
- opendomain 10y agoNo, I do not think this becomes 'groundwater' Fracking is below the water table and and water used will be effectively lost to the water cycle. If it does leak back up, it will be polluted.
- contravariant 10y agoEffectively lost mean different things on a human and a geological timescale. It could take millennia (or longer) for the water to slowly push through various kinds of bedrock, to finally get above ground again. By that time whatever contaminants were in it will have been filtered away. It's an incredibly slow process, but it's not as if we could somehow drain the oceans by fracking at full speed for several millennia.