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Burning Ice Drilled from Alaska's Slope

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the snowballs-that-pack-a-punch dept.

bagboy writes to tell us that as sources of renewable energy are being sought, BP has announced a new method of extracting natural gas from ice underneath Alaska's North Slope drilling fields. "Scientists with the federal Energy Department paid $4.6 million to drill for the hot ice just below the surface of the Milne Point well, which is situated northwest of Prudhoe Bay. [...] Now, scientists from around the world are waiting for pieces of this strange ice to conduct their own tests and determine whether Alaska's frozen grounds contain untapped, clean-burning energy."

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  1. "Clean Burning?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Soot, maybe not, but this would still be adding CO2. Hydrogen is what I would call clean burning -- it produces water. Though hydrogen isn't a fuel, but rather a fuel storage mechanism.

  2. so many dumb shits by timmarhy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    all you dimwits making posts about melting ice before global warming does it, i'd hate for you to think your orginal or funny, it's already been posted about 50 times.

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  3. Ahh, one step closer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    to the day when we tell the Arabs to take their oil and shove it.