An action thriller by Jock Miller


Fossil fuel has an ageless affinity with dinosaurs. To create oil, dinosaurs died.


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The perfect energy storm is sweeping over the United States: Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown has paralyzed nuclear expansion globally, BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill has stalled deep water drilling, Arab oil countries are in turmoil causing doubt about access to future oil, the intensity of hurricanes hitting the Gulf’s oil rigs and refineries has intensified due to global warming, and the nation’s Strategic Oil Supply is riding on empty.

As the energy storm intensifies, the nation’s access to Arab oil, once supplying over sixty percent of our fossil fuel, is being threatened causing people to panic for lack of gas at the pumps, stranding cars across the country and inciting riots.

The U.S. Military is forced to cut back air, land, and sea operations sucking up 58% of every barrel of oil to protect the nation; U.S. commercial airlines are forced to limit flights for lack of jet fuel; and businesses are challenged to power up their factories, and offices as the U.S. Department of Energy desperately tries to provide a balance of electric power from the network of aged power plants and transmission lines that power up the nation.

The United States must find new sources of domestic fossil fuel urgently or face an energy crisis that will plunge the nation into a deep depression worse than 1929.

The energy storm is very real and happening this very moment. But, at the last moment of desperation, the United States discovers the world’s largest fossil fuel deposit found in a remote inaccessible mountain range within Alaska’s Noatak National Preserve surrounding six and a half million acres.

Preventing access to the oil is a colony of living fossil dinosaurs that will protect its territory to the death.

Nobody gets out alive; nobody can identify the predator--until Dr. Kimberly Fulton, Curator of Paleontology at New York’s Museum of Natural History, is flown into the inaccessible area by Scott Chandler, the Marine veteran helicopter pilot who’s the Park’s Manager of Wildlife. All hell breaks loose when Fulton’s teenage son and his girlfriend vanish into the Park.

Will the nation’s military be paralyzed for lack of mobility fuel, and will people across America run out of gas and be stranded, or will the U.S. Military succeed in penetrating this remote mountain range in northwestern Alaska to restore fossil fuel supplies in time to save the nation from the worst energy driven catastrophe in recorded history?

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4 Feasible Oil-Spill Ideas from the Public

Analysis by David Teeghman

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None of BP's plans to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have worked so far. First, there was the Dome, and then Top Kill failed and most recently the diamond-tipped saw didn’t work either.

Americans have relentlessly criticized BP for its handling of the oil spill, and shortly after the catastrophe, began flooding BP's general number with suggestions on how to the stop the flow. In response, BP set up the Deepwater Horizon Response Center, which has received more than 80,000 suggestions to date, and has been shared on Facebook more than 1,500 times.

BP spokesman Mark Proegler says about 60 percent of the ideas BP has received are ways to plug the well, while the other 40 percent concern how to clean up the oil spill's disastrous aftermath.

Even though the spill has been going for almost two months, Proegler says the public’s interest in helping out has only increased, particularly in the last week.

“We’re now getting about 5,000 suggestions a day through the form on our website and over the suggestion hotline, which is a huge increase from when he began,” he says.

You could say that more ideas are pouring into the response center than oil into the Gulf of Mexico. But you probably shouldn’t.

BP and the U.S. Coast Guard have a 40-member team of technical and operational personnel charged with figuring out if any of the ideas have merit. Initial requests are put into one of three categories:

  • Not feasible
  • Already considered or planned
  • Feasible
Most of the suggestions fall into the first two categories. But if an idea has been deemed feasible, it goes to the next round of analysis. There, it undergoes a much more thorough review by a larger group of team members.

http://news.discovery.com/tech/the-4-feasible-oil-spill-ideas-from-the-public.html
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