Are we running out of oil?
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Aceyducey said:Yup
BTW here's a more recent article about the melting: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725124.500
Note the huge impacts for global warming....call it the domino effect.
Article in The Guardian had the same date 11 August 2005.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1546797,00.html
By now, there should be less 'frost' to contend with (no longer 'perma') and probably fewer Siberian Tigers as well.
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Ah but they're not drilling oil and gas wells - just a hole to a lake.
There's quite a difference in the scale of difficulty - particularly when it comes to extraction and transport.
And notice how much it has cost. You need to have good probabilities of discovering very large reservoirs before it's a commercial proposition.
Or improved drilling techniques.
As I said, it's an engineering problem and it will be solved, but the return needs to be there (or the strategic imperitive due to lack of other secure supply).
The antarctic treaty will last a while longer yet (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665212/posts , http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/all-eyes-on-the-last-wilderness/2006/07/16/1152988415153.html).
Cheers,
Aceyducey
There's quite a difference in the scale of difficulty - particularly when it comes to extraction and transport.
And notice how much it has cost. You need to have good probabilities of discovering very large reservoirs before it's a commercial proposition.
Or improved drilling techniques.
As I said, it's an engineering problem and it will be solved, but the return needs to be there (or the strategic imperitive due to lack of other secure supply).
The antarctic treaty will last a while longer yet (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665212/posts , http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/all-eyes-on-the-last-wilderness/2006/07/16/1152988415153.html).
Cheers,
Aceyducey
