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."

Comments

What?

[cybermage]

So burning polar ice is the plan to prevent greenhouse gases from melting polar ice? What kind of Bizarro world is this?

If we melt the ice...

[pseudorand]

If we melt the ice to get the natural gas, isn't it just like circumventing the CO2 part of global warming? All the melted ice will just make more dark, solar-energy absorbing dirt.