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Originally Posted by Lamplighter
particularly if 20 years from now we find that today's best practices are not sufficient.
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For your concern to be justified many more aquifers need to be contaminated then currently realized. From Classicman's link, there have been reported groundwater contamination at 0.10% of total fracking boreholes (as of 2009). That is 1 in a 1,000. Assuming that the number of reported incidents is the actual amount, that is probably not a problem with "best practice". That is likely just mess ups or bad luck. It would the same as blaming a single plane crash on our lack of understanding of aerospace engineering.
Yet, even if the number of reported incidents are only a tenth of the actual amount of contaminated wells, which is still unacceptable, that is most likely a regulation issue. In other words, something that can be avoided.
Although, I fully support additional testing of groundwater around fracking locations. That would give invaluable information of what borehole sealant designs works and the reliability of them.
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Other than "dilution is the solution", what does the industry offer to mitigate such events,
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No idea. Honestly, there probably isn't much that can be done. Not sure though.
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PH45, in an earlier post you mentioned nanotechnology.
Is that something like the "Fabreze" deodorizer in which the offending smell molecule is physically trapped inside the deodorizer chemical... e.g. inside a special "Bucky-ball" ?
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This is all speculation but nanotechnology possibly could get to the point where we can produce machines that can physically rearrange an atom's infrastructure. Therefore, it will be able to destroy (or rearrange) any particle that is considered harmful.
Although, if we ever get to that point, it won't be for centuries.