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

Re:Why ruin Alaska for natural gas?

[timmarhy]

ok, so please disconnect your power and phone, and stop driving your fucking car so you can quit feeling guilty about all the sea otters you are murdering by having hot water,lights and transportation.

This FP 7or GNAA.

[Anonymous Coward]

bulk of the FreeBsD a8other troubled

Re:NOT 'clean-burning' by any mean

[mdsolar]

I was going to tell you to go change a lightbulb, but then I realized you already did.

You're quite right on on topic.

Re:NOT 'clean-burning' by any mean

[vandan]

it's natural gas idiot - it's as clean burning as it gets.

No, idiot. It's as dirty as it gets. It releases CO2. You didn't do well at comprehension at school, did you?

there is litterally billions of tons of ice on this planet. i'm going to just assume you've never even been outside your own little burb on this one

There are 'literally' billions of tons, yes, and they'll largely be gone in 5-10 years. I'm going to assume you've had your head up your arse for the past year or so - climate change is now globally accepted as happening. Catch up.

i think i know whats going on here, your one of these people who needs to feel self rightgeous about something

Dude you have some pretty strange ideas about what motivates people. You're the one who's obsessed with yourself. I'm involved because I see an oncoming catastrophe and I'm going to do something about it. Interpret it as you will, but history ( and the majority of people around the world at this point, I should add ) have already spoken against you. Get off your high horse and come to terms with the effect that you're having on the environment.

ut because the world you live in is really quite good

From where I'm sitting, it's all turning to shit. We have oil wars, growing imperialism, decreasing wages, increasing attacks on civil liberties. I don't see the nice part to it. Nice in your ivory tower up there, is it?

you make up this imaginary enemy to attack

What the fuck dude? You are deluded! There is a very real enemy related to this topic, and it's BP and other Big Polluters who want to profit at any cost - including the entire world we live in. There is the enemy of global capitalism, which drives the destruction of the environment and workers' rights. None of this is a part of my imagination. You are seriously deluded.

your own confusion is eveident in the fact you advertise an anti war demonstation in a thread about drilling for methane trapped in ice

Not at all. The issues are all linked. And this isn't an 'anti-war' demo, it's an anti-Cheney demo, and pulls together grass-roots activists from many different areas, including unions, climate change groups, socialists, peace activists, muslim groups, etc. On the contrary, I think it's highly on-topic. Cheney represents everything we're fighting against collectively, and climate change / oil dependence is one part of the puzzle.

You aren't very good at keeping up with this stuff, are you?