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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. I give this... by bhmit1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    a snowball's chance in hell of ever working.

  2. Re:not renewable by AgentBif · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is certainly not renewable.

    Do you even know what the hell you are talking about?

    Of course it's renewable. All you gotta do is:

    • grow some dinosaurs
    • kill em
    • let em stew under the ice for another hundred million years
    • ...
    • profit!
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  3. Sweet! by DigitAl56K · · Score: 5, Funny

    So now instead of burning fuel which causes global warming and in turn melts the ice, we'll have cleaner fuel which doesn't melt the ice, and all we have to do is melt the ice to get it!

    I love it when a plan comes together.