Shell Is Building the World's Largest Man-Made Floating Object

[enzo1]

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-05/harvest-natural-gas-ocean-shell-building-worlds-largest-man-made-floating-object

[rsNINESOOPER]

I hope they get the entire sinking on camera and I can't wait to hear the BS reasons along with why the government should foot the rescue and clean up costs.

disaster waiting to happen-

[BRPORSCHE]

wow, what an awful post rsninpooper. go figure you are from the Bay Area with liberal spew like that.

[MotoSook]

Feel free to turn off the light and start gathering wood in your rustic haven where natural resources are off limits.

And you might. As well stop diving and buy a good pair of shoes. Don't think about using the roads to walk on....them roads are paved with asphalt!

I hope they get the entire sinking on camera and I can't wait to hear the BS reasons along with why the government should foot the rescue and clean up costs.



disaster waiting to happen-

[Porsche-O-Phile]

"Too big to fail"?

"Unsinkable"

Potential hubris, I'll grant that much. Cool project though. Most likely it'll never have any problems. Kudos to Shell for pushing the limits of engineering technology!

[sm70911]

Originally Posted by rsNINESOOPER

I hope they get the entire sinking on camera and I can't wait to hear the BS reasons along with why the government should foot the rescue and clean up costs.

disaster waiting to happen-

Exactly. Typical short sighted energy company. Cue handwringing and hand outs when something bad happens. Its ridiculous to build something like this, and impossible to forsee every potential natural disaster.
Shell, BP, et al should be putting their money into creating extensive renewable energy resources.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by sm70911

Exactly. Typical short sighted energy company. Cue handwringing and hand outs when something bad happens. Its ridiculous to build something like this, and impossible to forsee every potential natural disaster.
Shell, BP, et al should be putting their money into creating extensive renewable energy resources.

Like plant trees?

What are you going to put in your gas tank? Those pesky laws of nature demand that it takes a LOT of energy to move the 4,000 lb climate controlled vehicle down the road at 70 mph. Wishing for an magic alternative is nice but it will leave you with a stationary vehicle. There is no viable alternative.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by rsNINESOOPER

I hope they get the entire sinking on camera and I can't wait to hear the BS reasons along with why the government should foot the rescue and clean up costs.

disaster waiting to happen-

Stoopid post.
I suppose you hypocrites walk or ride bicycles everywhere you go and don't own an internal combustion engine, and everything else you own is made from wood or wool or cotton?

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by sm70911

Exactly. Typical short sighted energy company. Cue handwringing and hand outs when something bad happens. Its ridiculous to build something like this, and impossible to forsee every potential natural disaster.
Shell, BP, et al should be putting their money into creating extensive renewable energy resources.

Another stoopid post made by someone with absolutely no knowledge of the subject.

[red-beard]

Reading comprehension!

This is an Australian project.

If the front falls off, it will simply go out of the environment...

[ckissick]

Originally Posted by sm70911

Typical short sighted energy company. ... impossible to forsee every potential natural disaster.

Wow. Short sighted? This is the opposite of short sighted. It's designed to withstand a category 5 typhoon. What other natural disaster at sea is there? Until they invent a category 6, I'd say they're prepared.

It's this attitude that would see us still living in caves, huddled around a campfire every night. Actually, scrap the camp fire. Something could happen.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by ckissick

Wow. Short sighted? This is the opposite of short sighted. It's designed to withstand a category 5 typhoon. What other natural disaster at sea is there? Until they invent a category 6, I'd say they're prepared.

It's this attitude that would see us still living in caves, huddled around a campfire every night. Actually, scrap the camp fire. Something could happen.

You should not have a campfire, that causes pollution and will destroy the enviroment!

[dlockhart]

The Objective Standard: Exploit the Earth or Die™

Exploit the Earth or die. It’s not a threat. It’s a fact. Either man takes the Earth’s raw materials—such as trees, petroleum, aluminum, and atoms—and transforms them into the requirements of his life, or he dies. To live, man must produce the goods on which his life depends; he must produce homes, automobiles, computers, electricity, and the like; he must seize nature and use it to his advantage. There is no escaping this fact. Even the allegedly “noble” savage must pick or perish. Indeed, even if a person produces nothing, insofar as he remains alive he indirectly exploits the Earth by parasitically surviving off the exploitative efforts of others.

The fact annoys some people

[MotoSook]

The fact that they are putting all the facilities at the source should make the greenies happy as hell...no pipeline and facilities on shore.

The Asian countries need the LNG...or they can substitute with fission...now a taboo thought.

Or I guess they can go back to the 1700's and burn wood and get around on feet or horses.

[island911]

Originally Posted by rsNINESOOPER

I hope they get the entire sinking on camera and I can't wait to hear the BS reasons ....

disaster waiting to happen-

Maybe you also hope an A380 falls out of the sky too...and they get the entire downing on camera.



What a great 'reality' you must live in.

[island911]

Originally Posted by Soukus

The fact that they are putting all the facilities at the source should make the greenies happy as hell.......

Yeah, but the GreenPeacers are now gunna need a bigger rubber raft...

[sammyg2]

Since the tree-huggers have killed nukes again, that's out.
Solar costs waaaaay too much, so does the wind power scam.





Natural gas is extremely cheap compared to the "alternative energy" scams and it's much cleaner than most energy sources.
But believe it or not there are plenty of people out there who like the idea of our electricity bills quadrupling.
They like that idea, because they know the bleeding heart liberal gubmint will make SOMEONE ELSE pay their bills for them.
They have no idea how incredibly expensive and inneficient and unreliable their "alternative energy" sources are, and they don't care. They've been told to like them no matter what and that's exactly what they will do.

They must also like the idea of only having electricity available when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing. Wonder how they's think about that if they or one of their loved ones were hooked up to a life support system?

Bah, it's simply a liberal knee-jerk reaction to a name associated with an oil company.
They've been PROGRAMMED to react negatively to the mere mention of an oil comany's name without any thought whatsoever.

[Zeke]

I thought the world's biggest floating object was the trash island out in the Pacific.

[rsNINESOOPER]

Originally Posted by BRPORSCHE

wow, what an awful post rsninpooper. go figure you are from the Bay Area with liberal spew like that.

Interesting way to donate your thoughts. Your a big man on the keyboard.

First of all I am not a "liberal" as you have titled me and secondly being from the bay area has nothing to do with what kind of person I am. There are a few people like you on this site that seem to drag politics into everything no matter what the subject. Do you speak like this when you are in the personal presence of people?.

I could argue with you on the internet but that would be idiotic. You may continue your plight alone.

My comment is coming from an engineering viewpoint and and not one of the need to develop energy. I happen to understand energy in much greater detail than you might think. So ignoring what the "purpose" is of the largest floating structure being built is I think it's a ridiculous idea. Engineering wise it begs disaster weather created by nature or man which has been proven to plague Oil and gas projects due to the materials handled and remote locations they are built in.

[slakjaw]

But... ur the one who brought politics into this thread.

oh well, it was fun guys my guess is that this will be off to PARF soon.

Originally Posted by rsNINESOOPER

Interesting way to donate your thoughts. Your a big man on the keyboard.

First of all I am not a "liberal" as you have titled me and secondly being from the bay area has nothing to do with what kind of person I am. There are a few people like you on this site that seem to drag politics into everything no matter what the subject. Do you speak like this when you are in the personal presence of people?.

I could argue with you on the internet but that would be idiotic. You may continue your plight alone.

My comment is coming from an engineering viewpoint and and not one of the need to develop energy. I happen to understand energy in much greater detail than you might think. So ignoring what the "purpose" is of the largest floating structure being built is I think it's a ridiculous idea. Engineering wise it begs disaster weather created by nature or man which has been proven to plague Oil and gas projects due to the materials handled and remote locations they are built in.