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paleotn

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9. They think it's some kind of resource panacea....
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 07:37 PM
Jan 5

Well, maybe in about a 100 years once much of that ice melts. 80% of Greenland is covered in an ice sheet that averages a mile in thickness. Oil? Perhaps offshore, but the Labrador Sea, Baffin Bay, and the North Atlantic that far north would provide the most technically challenging, and expensive, oil ever recovered. The Canadian offshore oil patch southwest of Newfie is challenging enough and it's waaaaaaay further south than offshore Greenland.

It's the ramblings of tech bro morons and grifters. If marketable resources could be extracted there at scale, that would have started long ago. It didn't because it can't be done and make any semblance of a profit. The whole idea is nuts.

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