I said they'd make a huge issue out of it reguardless... They are enviromentalism wackos (not enviromental scientists). Their doesn't actually need to be a real threat enviromentally, only lots of loud people who think there is... Granted they may be more concerned with the whole enviroment impact random falling colonies. Or was that 080?
Its not so much the local governmental Kudzu I was taking about as the attempts at world government kudzu that would try to strangle the seas. I'd have to have a global political map of the 00 gundam world to explain this specific to that world.
Also ordance11, I've watched the world oil market for longer than you have apparently.... and its a matter of price manipulation rather than supply shortages. There are literally people that buy up huge amounts of oil and then stick it in supertankers and the supertankers do donuts and figure 8s in international waters until the price is high enough to sell it off at major profits... its rather a matter of the oil markets having the same issues as the diamond markets. Its called the oil futures market.
You also have things like Iran purposely screwing with the price. Part of the reason Iran does so many threats and such is that they literally need the price of oil above (I think its) 64 dollars a barrel... or they implode economically. Iran has decades old equipment and has managed to tick off all 3 of the worlds makers of oil drilling and well eqipment and it can't get replacement parts, let alone new stuff. This means they are economically dead men walking, if things procede naturally. If they don't keep the price per barrel artifically high the country of Iran goes away in a few months.
The same kind of minimum price and economic colapse thing hits Chavez (Venezuela) at around the same price per barrel. I'm not trying to be that political here, but they make great examples of why they are making threats to the world.
In general the cost to extract a barrel is something like 40 a barrel... And if Iran is shut up (by being removed militarily or economially) the price will drop like a stone. Currently Iran's only major ally is Russia and that is mainly because its keeping itself a float by selling old military tech to Iran. Remove the Iranian lynch pin and its purposeful price inflationary activities and the price drops.
Anyway, now some of the range effects could be mitigated by using the power on some kind of floating/submerged facility. I can see a megacorp building such a thing in international waters to avoid taxes. Basically make your own Island nation kind of thing.
Its not so much the local governmental Kudzu I was taking about as the attempts at world government kudzu that would try to strangle the seas. I'd have to have a global political map of the 00 gundam world to explain this specific to that world.
Also ordance11, I've watched the world oil market for longer than you have apparently.... and its a matter of price manipulation rather than supply shortages. There are literally people that buy up huge amounts of oil and then stick it in supertankers and the supertankers do donuts and figure 8s in international waters until the price is high enough to sell it off at major profits... its rather a matter of the oil markets having the same issues as the diamond markets. Its called the oil futures market.
You also have things like Iran purposely screwing with the price. Part of the reason Iran does so many threats and such is that they literally need the price of oil above (I think its) 64 dollars a barrel... or they implode economically. Iran has decades old equipment and has managed to tick off all 3 of the worlds makers of oil drilling and well eqipment and it can't get replacement parts, let alone new stuff. This means they are economically dead men walking, if things procede naturally. If they don't keep the price per barrel artifically high the country of Iran goes away in a few months.
The same kind of minimum price and economic colapse thing hits Chavez (Venezuela) at around the same price per barrel. I'm not trying to be that political here, but they make great examples of why they are making threats to the world.
In general the cost to extract a barrel is something like 40 a barrel... And if Iran is shut up (by being removed militarily or economially) the price will drop like a stone. Currently Iran's only major ally is Russia and that is mainly because its keeping itself a float by selling old military tech to Iran. Remove the Iranian lynch pin and its purposeful price inflationary activities and the price drops.
Anyway, now some of the range effects could be mitigated by using the power on some kind of floating/submerged facility. I can see a megacorp building such a thing in international waters to avoid taxes. Basically make your own Island nation kind of thing.