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Another "who cares?" story.
The earth has oil in it. Sometimes it gets into the water. BFD. The earth will take care of it regardless of whatever we do.
What a dumb post.
Another "who cares?" story.
The earth has oil in it. Sometimes it gets into the water. BFD. The earth will take care of it regardless of whatever we do.
Have they set the spill on fire yet?
Wait till it hits the shores. Oy vey.
Not good, not good at all.
With a vast oil slick now within only 20 miles of the ecologically fragile Louisiana coastline, Coast Guard officials said they were considering a “controlled burn” of the petroleum on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.
Rear Adm. Mary E. Landry, the federal on-scene coordinator for the spill, said such a burn might be conducted as soon as Wednesday.
A joint government and industry task force has been unable to stop crude oil from streaming out of a broken pipe attached to a well 5,000 feet below sea level. The leaks were found Saturday, days after an oil rig to which the pipe was attached exploded and sank in the gulf about 50 miles southeast of Venice, La. An estimated 42,000 gallons a day are now spilling into the Gulf of Mexico.
Officials said Tuesday that wind projections indicated that the oil would not reach land in the next three days, and it was unclear exactly where along the Gulf Coast it might arrive first.
Concern Grows About Impact of Gulf Oil Spill - NYTimes.com
Very good. And Geo-thermal is looking better every day;
Geothermal. Cheap. Abundant. Cheap. | SolveClimate.com
With reporting by Molika Ashford
(Part 1 of 3 on Geothermal Energy)
As Americas love affair with coal cools off, geothermal energy is getting hot, hot, hot.
Why? Because the secret is out of the bag: geothermal is cheap and abundant.
For $800 million to $1 billion in R&D funding spread out over 15 years -- geothermal could be deployed on a scale that would produce more than 100,000 MW of additional new (low-emissions) capacity in the US by 2050.
Thats less than the price of one 275 MW clean-coal plant and more than 360 times more energy.
The best part?
The availability of the geothermal resource base is ginormous: 130,000 times America's current yearly consumption of energy. The technology has also developed rapidly. The latest and most promising are Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). And most of the key technical requirements to make EGS economical over wide swathes of the country are already in place.
Wonder why they didn't do the controlled burn earlier.
Another "who cares?" story.
The earth has oil in it. Sometimes it gets into the water. BFD. The earth will take care of it regardless of whatever we do.
It is no big deal, there are oil spills all the time.
The people whose livehood is dependent on the seafoods from the Gulf are quite worried about what this is going to do to those resources.
Why do you say that? Has he been having secret meetings with big oil?Why isn't the left accusing the President of being in bed with 'big oil'?