franking is to release oil trapped in rock formations.
For natural gas the US has one of the largest supplies in the world of natural gas which is extremely clean burning compared to coal. China was bringing online a new coal fired power plant ever week for a few years. Was a extremely cheap source of energy.
A couple of interesting articles I read about the wind turbine blades. They don't have a long lifespan and unable to be recycled. They are disposing of them by burying them in the areas that were strip mining for coal in Wyoming.
Another fallacy are electric vehicles are clean energy. Do some research on the disposing of spent batteries that contains heavy metals. Also research where some of these metals are mined and the contamination they create along with the health issues these people experience.
If you truly want clean energy hydrogen is the way to go. The byproduct of burning hydrogen is water.
In my area we have a number of large wind turbines, been there for many, many years, go past them frequently and never saw them replacing blades. Routine maintence seems to be about every 5 years, even then never saw the blades come off. Each turbine creates enough electricity to supply over 1400 homes each year !!
Some folks complain about noise, but I have parked my car and sat outside for hours and barely can hear anything, I am closer to the turbines than any homes by far. The University has been looking for dead birds for years to create a complaint, but very few have been found !! We have many solar panel companies in our area and solar fields as well. I see more maintence being done on solar panels and they take far more space/ land than the wind turbines. In our area the permit cost is rediculous for a wind turbine, but cheap for solar panels.....how does that make any sense? If they want folks to use clean energy, the politics need to keep there noses out of it. To charge over 5 x the cost for wind permits as they do for solar makes no sense, other than payoff to the mfgrs
