Energy – Not A Number Cards & Gifts http://notanumbergifts.com Things to make you think. Things to make you smile. Tue, 25 Nov 2014 18:15:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Fracking + Golf Courses vs Lawn Watering http://notanumbergifts.com/2014/10/fracking-golf-courses-vs-lawn-watering/ http://notanumbergifts.com/2014/10/fracking-golf-courses-vs-lawn-watering/#comments Sun, 19 Oct 2014 05:44:31 +0000 http://notanumbergifts.com/?p=1015 Since the answer for yesterday’s question, leads to today’s question, here’s the answer to yesterday. In the US which uses more water fracking for oil or watering of golf courses?

This one turns out to be kind of a tie, depending on what estimates you use.

From the US Golf Assoc, the US uses 408 billion gallons of water a day, of which .05% is estimated to be used for watering of golf courses. This is 204,000,000 gallons per day, or 74,460,000,000 (74 billion) gallons/year.

Sourcewatch estimates that fracking uses 70 to 140 billion gallons of water per year, so fracking uses from slightly less than golf course watering to a little less than double depending on your estimate.

Bring us to tomorrow’s question, which uses more residential water lawn watering or fracking and golf course watering combined?

]]> http://notanumbergifts.com/2014/10/fracking-golf-courses-vs-lawn-watering/feed/ 1 Fracking vs Golf http://notanumbergifts.com/2014/10/fracking-vs-golf/ Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:08:21 +0000 http://notanumbergifts.com/?p=1012 Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Today’s question – which uses more water in the US – watering of golf courses or fracking for oil/gas?

From yesterday – 16 countries have 100% legal same sex marriage: (Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark,[nb 1] France, Iceland, Netherlands,[nb 2] New Zealand,[nb 3] Norway, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, United Kingdom,[nb 4] Uruguay)

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