On: UK Releases 130 Terabytes of Oil and Gas Data

[hannob]

> If you were looking to modernize an industry O&G is super fit for disruption.

The only way to "modernize" Oil and Gas that is compatible with a future for the planet is to shut it down.

[hhmc → hannob]

Perhaps for the purposes of energy. There are mydriad petrochem products that have no viable alternative.

[mrob → hhmc]

No commercially viable alternative when the externalities aren't priced correctly. But hydrocarbons are already made from coal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_proces...

The same process can be used with biochar, or potentially carbon from some future carbon capture method.

[solarkraft → hhmc]

This is true and exactly why we shouldn't burn these valuable resources.

[mjburgess → hannob]

Along with all agriculture, medicine, transport, etc.

"Shut it down!" doesn't apply so well to the food supply right?

[Hendrikto → mjburgess]

What‘s you point? If you cannot fix everything, fix nothing instead?

[VBprogrammer → Hendrikto]

I think their point was shutting down oil and gas is de facto shutting down all of those other fields.

[Gpetrium → hannob]

Almost everything you buy has an O&G component to it. With the economic development around the world, at this point it is either O&G or worse alternatives (more costlier and sometimes dirtier)

How do you think goods are transported? How do you think the material is processed?

I agree that humanity needs to find better alternatives, but we all have to be realistic.