Burning Ice Drilled from Alaska's Slope

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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Re:NOT 'clean-burning' by any mean

[vandan]

By the way, good job at shamelessly plugging your political views in a scientific discussion. :/

Forgot to comment on this one.
Cheney is a big oil trader, in the same vain as Bush. I hardly think it's off-topic to communicate to other link-minded people that he's coming to Australia, and that there's a demo on today, considering we're talking about fossil fuels, renewable resources, and all. Just because you don't personally agree that burning fossil fuels is wrong, doesn't mean that I shouldn't let others on the left know about what's going to be a great day of activity against one of the most oiled-up neo-cons around :)