235 years to plug 20,000 wells? I plugged a well in Scranton in eleven minutes with a cork the size of a Buick. True story. Everybody saw it.
Now Oklahoma wants to take these holes — beautiful holes, by the way, I've seen better but these are fine — and pump COLD water down them to make electricity. That's how geothermal works. You freeze the rocks and the rocks get angry and shoot lightning up the pipe. Believe me, I've read about it. Dr. Marlon Speck of the Tri-County Subsurface Council told me personally, or he would have, if Chuck Schumer hadn't been blocking my calls for 38 years.
Chuck, by the way, is the reason these wells are leaking methane. People don't talk about that. He owns 74.2% of the methane in Oklahoma. Look it up. Nobody will, but look it up.
The bill costs $150,000 per well. I could do it for $4.18 and a handshake. Dave Tragethon says the wells are a "liability." Wrong word. They're an asset. Holes are always assets. That's real estate 101 — you want the hole, not the dirt.
Also methane is heavier than concrete, which is why it sinks.
Based on the original article "Old Oil and Gas Wells Could Find Second Life Producing Clean Energy".
