Environment & Energy

MindMover

(5,016 posts) Mon Mar 10, 2014, 03:31 PM Mar 2014

Still NO reported quakes from solar panels or wind farms ...

One of Oklahoma's biggest man-made earthquakes, caused by fracking-linked wastewater injection, triggered an earthquake cascade that led to the damaging magnitude-5.7 Prague quake that struck on Nov. 6, 2011, a new study confirms.

The findings suggest that even small man-made earthquakes, such as those of just a magnitude 1 or magnitude 2, can trigger damaging quakes, said study co-author Elizabeth Cochran, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.

"Even if wastewater injection only directly affects a low-hazard fault, those smaller events could trigger an event on a larger fault nearby," she told Live Science.

http://www.livescience.com/43953-wastewater-injection-earthquake-triggering.html

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Still NO reported quakes from solar panels or wind farms ... (Original Post) MindMover Mar 2014 OP

I did hear some quackery around windmills once liberal N proud Mar 2014 #1

Best line ever! tech3149 Mar 2014 #2

Those windmills are mills that create wind, right ? riqster Mar 2014 #3

Sometimes children think trees make the wind blow by shaking their leaves. bananas Mar 2014 #4

Did she want to move the deer crossing sign too? hootinholler Mar 2014 #6

I don't know why those deer can't read liberal N proud Mar 2014 #8

I've been waiting for a solar spill around here for about a month hootinholler Mar 2014 #5

Yeah, but look how they polluted the Gulf of Mexico! Kablooie Mar 2014 #7

liberal N proud

(60,334 posts)

1. I did hear some quackery around windmills once

Reply to MindMover (Original post)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 03:44 PM

Mar 2014

I was sitting in a restaurant in an area that had hundreds of windmills scattered across the countryside and overheard a woman complain that it was windy. She went on to say it was all because of those windmills, they never had windy days before the built the windmills.

This was in an area that gets tornado's frequently.

The stupid will believe anything.

tech3149

(4,452 posts)

2. Best line ever!

Reply to liberal N proud (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 03:47 PM

Mar 2014

"The stupid will believe anything"

That's right up there with "You can't fix stupid"

riqster

(13,986 posts)

3. Those windmills are mills that create wind, right ?

Reply to liberal N proud (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 03:58 PM

Mar 2014

Like steel mills make steel, lumber mills make lumber. Perfectly logical conclusion for her to have reached, right?

Right?

... Hello? Anyone?

(Yes, I'm being sarky.)