http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/03/oil-rigs-are-dead-long-live-the-oil-rigs/ Business, Better. Since 2005 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/03/oil-rigs-are-dead-long-live-the-oil-rigs/comment-page-1/#comment-8909 Nick Aster Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:55:53 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2009/03/oil-rigs-are-dead-long-live-the-oil-rigs/#comment-8909 I love the creativity that goes into ideas like this, but there's no way that all the world's rigs could ever be used to produce a massive boom in luxury tourism to the outer continental shelf. I'll bet one or two could be used in such ways, the rest are going to have to be dismantled or sunk. I'll bet there's a big demand, however, for research facilities for a few dozen - donate them to universities and use them for oceanic research. Finally, and this comes with its own problems, but presumably you could use some as anchor facilities for fish farming - if you could solve the antibiotic and pollution problems then you could probably set up really huge farms in otherwise scantily populated ocean areas and do a fair bit toward feeding the world. I love the creativity that goes into ideas like this, but there’s no way that all the world’s rigs could ever be used to produce a massive boom in luxury tourism to the outer continental shelf. I’ll bet one or two could be used in such ways, the rest are going to have to be dismantled or sunk.
I’ll bet there’s a big demand, however, for research facilities for a few dozen – donate them to universities and use them for oceanic research. Finally, and this comes with its own problems, but presumably you could use some as anchor facilities for fish farming – if you could solve the antibiotic and pollution problems then you could probably set up really huge farms in otherwise scantily populated ocean areas and do a fair bit toward feeding the world.

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