There’s nothing like a big, heavy low tech solution to provide a shot of optimism that a mile deep gusher can actually be brought under control. So here it comes. A 125 ton (250,000 pound) reinforced concrete house that you plant over the gusher, connect a 5 mile pipe to its chimney and route all that crude up to surface ships for processing, storage and shipment ashore.
Continue reading about Stopping The Gulf Oil Spill – This Might Actually Work
Bibliologue by Elizabeth Cline / Seedmagazine.com / July 8, 2009 / The Coming Oil-Free Utopia In $20 a Gallon, Christopher Steiner argues that rising oil prices will not unravel society, but rather change it for the better. The price of oil has stabilized since last summer’s SUV-stalling spike, but our supply of oil—a finite resource [...]
Anyone with money invested in the stock market already knows the bad news. But let’s review. Over 35% drop in the DOW over only a brief few weeks. Up to 1,000 point daily swings that richochet around world markets at the speed of light. Scant assurance that the floor has been found. Lousy earnings reports. [...]
Continue reading about Alternative Energy Economy – A Silver Lining Turns Green!
In my most recent post, I made it clear that I’m 100% in favor of drilling for, and pumping up, every last blessed drop of oil we can afford to get our hands on domestically in lieu of importing that same oil. I won’t repeat my rationale here, but I just want to be crystal [...]
