How can a president who pledges to address "the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate" single-handedly add two untapped oceans of burned oil to our planet's atmosphere that's already in crisis?
Scientists have known about the untapped potential at the ocean bottom for decades.
And like other endangered habitats, such as tropical rainforests, the deep ocean likely harbors untapped biological resources that might one day be used to develop new drugs and other products that benefit humankind.
Today, the microorganisms residing in deep ocean sediments remain an untapped resource for natural compound discovery.
The Anglo-Dutch group said the BG takeover would expand its presence in controversial deep-water activities – many of the planet's untapped fossil fuel resources are now in ocean regions that are difficult to access – but said it would also increase its presence in liquefied natural gas, a cleaner fossil fuel than oil.
Energy from ocean waves remains largely an untapped resource.
Massive deposits of driftwood lining Arctic shores may be an untapped trove of clues about past climate and ocean currents.
Nigeria is endowed with substantial conventional energy resources (tar sands, natural, crude oil, and coal) as well as huge sources of renewable energy which largely includes solar energy, wind energy, small hydroelectric energy potentials, biomass, untapped hydrogen exploitation and development of geothermal and ocean energy technologies [20, 21, 22].
Among common renewable energy sources, the waves generated in gulfs and oceans reflect a huge body of untapped renewable energy source, which owns a large amount of energy potential that can be transformed into electricity.
That such a trust would be empowered to manage, with particular environmental sensitivity, the enormous and still untapped energy reserves located on our public lands and underneath the oceans off our continental shelf.
