[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Read of a company in Vernal UT all excited with what it claims is the best and most economical process to date. Supposedly it has passed all EPA requirements.

The enviro Nazis have always thrown a fit over what to do with the huge amount of waste residue oil shale processing produces, which is a contaminate. The new process leaves the waste in an inert form which can be used for road paving with just small additions of asphalt. It can also be used in construction for making cinder blocks, in concrete, fire proof building siding, or even for land fill purposes.

Hoping this method proves feasible beyond the laboratory phase. I would rather pay for American energy and the jobs which would come from it, than just continue giving more and more petrol dollars to a bunch of rag heads and other jerk offs abroad.

[neverhome]

[I would rather pay for American energy and the jobs which would come from it, than just continue giving more and more petrol dollars to a bunch of rag heads...]

I was working in the oilpatch in the 80's when they started plugging producing wells in favor of importing Arab oil. A heckuva lot of Americans ended up jobless because of all the goings-on back then. There's a busy oilfield where I live now but I don't trust it. Feast one day, famine the next.

[RightWhale]

It leaves a mountain of broken pottery. No reason not to use this, too, even though it is not particularly high grade gravel. It might do for footpaths and zen gardens.