off shore drilling

what are your thoughts on off shore drilling? Is it worth it?

Permalink Reply by Paul Suckow on March 2, 2009 at 2:23pm: Oil is more and more valuable. It will certainly be worthwhile to recover substantial amounts as raw materials for closed-loop chemical processes. But not to be burned in the open atmosphere! Enough readily accessible oil and natural gas exists to place our planet on an irretrievable trajectory toward uninhabitability, if it is all burned, according to James E. Hansen of NASA/Columbia University. We'll need to be far more judicious about combustion of the stuff (really of any carbon-bearing fuel), but man, what incredible raw materials! Some even suggest that the overbloomed masses will feed themselves using reprocessed crude or coal (hydrocarbons to carbohydrates?). I'm most excited about the possibilities of pure carbon fiber materials in construction and buckyballs for lubrication and amazing nanoscale applications, and plentiful hydrogen for motive power and clean water production inside the atmosphere! Let's go forth and burn no more!; ▶ Reply to This