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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Can renewable forms of energy replace fossil fuels? Answered by Discovery Channel


Discovery Channel

Human society has relied on fossil fuels, such as oil and coal, for many generations -- and we will probably rely on them for quite a while to come. As many have observed, this is not necessarily a good thing.

The fossil-fuel economy is the standard gasoline-burning world we're used to. But it has some serious downsides to it. Cars powered by the internal combustion engine produce byproducts that are bad for the air, like carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and unburned hydrocarbons. Along similar pollution lines, the fossil-fuel economy is also responsible for a good portion of global warming. Each gallon of gas your car burns emits 5 pounds (2.3 kilograms) of carbon, which contributes to the rising temperature of the atmosphere. Meanwhile, the transportation of the oil used to produce gasoline is often at fault for major environmental pollution problems: Think oil tanker spills, pipeline explosions and well fires. Finally, on the political end of the spectrum, the fossil-fuel economy forces the United States to be dependent on oil-rich countries, as we can't produce enough of our own oil. That has all kinds of repercussions, including allowing other countries to control how much we pay for gas.

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