[ExI] How Electricity Became a Luxury Good

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 06:06:33PM +0200, Alfio Puglisi wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > The North Dakota story is illustrative of what I think will happen in the
> > future with other sources of energy.
> > 1) It wasn't tapped until improvements in technology (methods of fracking)
> > made it economical.
> >
> 
> Shouldn't that be "until the price of oil rose enough to make it
> economical" ?  The main change in today's world is that oil is 5x-10x more
> expensive than before.

Did someone just say 'Bakken'?

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/9748

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/9954

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/10102


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