Synthstuff - music, photography and more...

Big Oil meet Big Picture

The Boston Globe's wonderful Big Picture section looks at the effects of the BP spill on the Louisiana coastline. Some gorgeous (and tragic) photography. As bad as the Exxon Valdez was, that was rocky coastline -- this is marshland and is teeming with life. Many of the fish we find in the oceans started their life in a marshland nursery. Here are three to whet your appetite:



Considering that big accidents like this have only happened about every twenty years, I would say that the industry is doing pretty well for its safety record. The technology keeps advancing too. For all that the greens promote alternative forms of energy, these are all falsely priced -- high government subsidies mask the true costs and the energy density is a lot less -- by at least one order of magnitude if not more. Posted by DaveH at May 24, 2010 8:25 PM