[extropy-chat] OIL: Albertan tar sands, was Peak Oil?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:35:04PM -0400, Pat Fallon wrote:
> then there's oil shale....
>  Since 1981, Shell researchers at the company's division of "unconventional 
> resources" have been spending their own money trying to figure out how to 
> get usable energy out of oil shale. Judging by the presentation the Rocky 
> Mountain News heard this week, they think they've got it.

It is a really dumb idea to try extracting usable energy from oil shale.
It is a somewhat less dumb idea to extract hydrocarbons from oil shale
using thermal output of specially designed nuclear reactors. If there
weren't any coal, gas, or biomass anywhere else in the world it'd
be an option.

 
> 
> http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_405\
> 1709,00.html<http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_4051709,00.html>

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