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

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:

> --- Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Umm...you state your opinion, but you don't give any facts to back it
> up.  The article specifically contradicts you on this point, if you
> mean it's dumb because of the economics - and the people actually
> working on this have far more credibility.  Or do you mean something
> else?
> 
> > >
>
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_4051709,00.html

Well, $30/bbl production cost American oil certainly isn't quite the
same as $2/bbl production cost Saudi oil. On the plus side most of that
$30 is going into the bank accounts of Americans and not being
profligately squandered by Saudi sheiks with too much theology and not
enough motivation to get a life.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
Founder, Constitution Park Foundation:
http://constitutionpark.blogspot.com
Personal/political blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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