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by patrickg-zill
6545 days ago
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You don't need to read the Economist. All you have to do is look at the numbers from DOE themselves, and make up your own mind. Personally I believe we are nowhere near peak oil, due to Bakken, the unexplored resources off USA coastal shorelines, ANWR drilling that should be undertaken, etc. Plus for natural gas we have the undersea hydrates that we haven't quite figured out how to mine cheaply (yet). |
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And I have done a bit of research into the "undersea natural gas hydrates"......
That is a fascinating phenomenon. Deposits are gargantuan but, man, I wouldn't want to be working the rigs that explore for them.
If you drill into a deposit the natural gas will start bubbling to the surface and when this happens your platform loses flotation and sinks. This has already happened to one or two rigs working the North Sea with loss of all hands.
By comparison, nuclear fission is much, much safer.