BP in 'giant' new oil discovery
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Waaaheeey!! Cheaper petrol for all! Now I can afford to run my 635 again...
youngsyr said:
BP said:
{the discovery would} "support the continuing growth of our deepwater Gulf of Mexico business into the second half of the next decade".
Aren't fossil fuels supposed to have run out by then? 
Edited by youngsyr on Wednesday 2nd September 12:23
youngsyr said:
BP said:
{the discovery would} "support the continuing growth of our deepwater Gulf of Mexico business into the second half of the next decade".
Aren't fossil fuels supposed to have run out by then? We also have to ponder the outpourings of milibandism at the DECC where fanciful erections abound. By erections I refer to 3 windymills per day to 2020, of course, which is in any case a totally risible notion in keeping with the 2000 fossil fuel myth.
What will have run out before 2020 is an adequate supply of electicity in this country, one capable of meeting commercial and domestic demand - which is why what passes for a UK government is keen to put interactive power consumption devices into our homes and businesses. On the surface this is supposedly to allow us to monitor consumption in real time, running off in all directions to take our PCs and TVs off standby with one hand while fitting expensive mercury-laden 'green' bulbs with the other. In reality these are devices to be put in place to allow electricity suppliers to ration electricity when our creaking energy security finally crumbles and the sum total of all the windymills and assorted green rhubarb is shown to be worth zilch.
Supposedly the spin beforehand and damage limitation after the fact is supposed to work better if our cuts are 'managed' in this way. We'll still be in the dark, which is where politicians are over energy security and where their true belief in the utter tosh and drivel of environ mentalism has placed them.
FourWheelDrift said:
Mexico they say?
There's an idea
BBC said:
The company said it drilled the well, dubbed Tiber, to a total depth of about 35,055ft (10,685m), making it one of the deepest wells ever drilled.
Anyone else think they are trying to drill directly through the earth to steal the Arabs oil?There's an idea
I always thought oil was made from squashed trees and stuff - that's a lot of mud on top of the trees-of-old!!!
turbobloke said:
I was told at school, by the traditional elbow patched geography teacher, that fossil fuels would have run out before 2000. It's all very confusing.
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I rather doubt that to be fair. I certainly remember being told that North Sea Oil would run out in the early part of this centuary, but certainly not 'fossil fuels' in general. Perhaps you are remembering what you 'want' to remember?.
however, I still want to know where the hell my flying car is.....
Edited by Tony*T3 on Wednesday 2nd September 12:54
Edited by Tony*T3 on Wednesday 2nd September 13:02
Tony*T3 said:
turbobloke said:
I was told at school, by the traditional elbow patched geography teacher, that fossil fuels would have run out before 2000. It's all very confusing.
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I rather doubt that to be fair. I certainly remember being told that North Sea Oil would run out in the early part of this centuary, but certainly not 'fossil fuels' in general. Perhaps you are remembering what you 'want' to remember?.
however, I still want to know where the help my flying car is.....
Edited by Tony*T3 on Wednesday 2nd September 12:54
Tony*T3 said:
turbobloke said:
I was told at school, by the traditional elbow patched geography teacher, that fossil fuels would have run out before 2000. It's all very confusing.
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I rather doubt that to be fair. I certainly remember being told that North Sea Oil would run out in the early part of this centuary, but certainly not 'fossil fuels' in general. Perhaps you are remembering what you 'want' to remember?.
turbobloke said:
Tony*T3 said:
turbobloke said:
I was told at school, by the traditional elbow patched geography teacher, that fossil fuels would have run out before 2000. It's all very confusing.
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I rather doubt that to be fair. I certainly remember being told that North Sea Oil would run out in the early part of this centuary, but certainly not 'fossil fuels' in general. Perhaps you are remembering what you 'want' to remember?.
I'm guessing from your previous posts that your probably late 40's? If so, your geography teacher should have known a lot better than to spout that rubbish. Most of Asia floats on a base of fossil fuels. Huge areas even now still relativly unexplored in terms of oil fields.
tonyvid said:
FourWheelDrift said:
Mexico they say?
There's an idea
BBC said:
The company said it drilled the well, dubbed Tiber, to a total depth of about 35,055ft (10,685m), making it one of the deepest wells ever drilled.
Anyone else think they are trying to drill directly through the earth to steal the Arabs oil?There's an idea
I always thought oil was made from squashed trees and stuff - that's a lot of mud on top of the trees-of-old!!!
If one thing is clear over the last few years the less oil/gas dependency we have the better. The wombles who have the oil/gas seem to be somewhat unstable (not all of em but enough) and hold ourselves to ransom. So we need to generate electricity from anything but fossil fuels. So wind, wave and Nuclear are required. Of course we have been held back in the fission stakes by the same t
ts who are now telling us we are all doomed from global warming.All I want is a Mr Fusion (1.21 gigawatts should be enough for all my crap left on standby) to run off rain water and rubbish to run my house - not much to ask surely.
SLacKer said:
That is one pile of mud...... I think they invented subduction to explain this.
If one thing is clear over the last few years the less oil/gas dependency we have the better. The wombles who have the oil/gas seem to be somewhat unstable (not all of em but enough) and hold ourselves to ransom. So we need to generate electricity from anything but fossil fuels. So wind, wave and Nuclear are required. Of course we have been held back in the fission stakes by the same tts who are now telling us we are all doomed from global warming.
All I want is a Mr Fusion (1.21 gigawatts should be enough for all my crap left on standby) to run off rain water and rubbish to run my house - not much to ask surely.
I forgot about plate tectonics(sp?).... it must have taken such biblical timescales for all this to happen, it makes you feel about >< that big.If one thing is clear over the last few years the less oil/gas dependency we have the better. The wombles who have the oil/gas seem to be somewhat unstable (not all of em but enough) and hold ourselves to ransom. So we need to generate electricity from anything but fossil fuels. So wind, wave and Nuclear are required. Of course we have been held back in the fission stakes by the same t
ts who are now telling us we are all doomed from global warming.All I want is a Mr Fusion (1.21 gigawatts should be enough for all my crap left on standby) to run off rain water and rubbish to run my house - not much to ask surely.
SLacKer said:
tonyvid said:
FourWheelDrift said:
Mexico they say?
There's an idea
BBC said:
The company said it drilled the well, dubbed Tiber, to a total depth of about 35,055ft (10,685m), making it one of the deepest wells ever drilled.
Anyone else think they are trying to drill directly through the earth to steal the Arabs oil?There's an idea
I always thought oil was made from squashed trees and stuff - that's a lot of mud on top of the trees-of-old!!!
If one thing is clear over the last few years the less oil/gas dependency we have the better. The wombles who have the oil/gas seem to be somewhat unstable (not all of em but enough) and hold ourselves to ransom. So we need to generate electricity from anything but fossil fuels. So wind, wave and Nuclear are required. Of course we have been held back in the fission stakes by the same t
ts who are now telling us we are all doomed from global warming.All I want is a Mr Fusion (1.21 gigawatts should be enough for all my crap left on standby) to run off rain water and rubbish to run my house - not much to ask surely.
http://www.gizmag.com/general-fusion-nuclear-proto...
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