No wait!
“and appease environmentalists while they’re at it.”
Never going to happen. For most greenies it is the downfall of the USA that they are after.
I hope we can drive these mid-east bastards to the poorhouse.
“... zap previously unextractable oil resources with microwaves...”
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But will that not fry rare earth worms?
God Forbid!, the envirofascist will scream. You’ll mutate some deep-earth 1-cell bacterium newly hypothesized to exist at those depths. No genetically-modified oil!
This technology can double as a deterrent to the Muzzie tunnel rats digging into Israel. Cook the jihadis rodents underground in their burrows!
I love the smell of microwaves in the morning.
They are going to complain about microwave contamination of the water table
I love this. It up-ends all assumptions.<p
I don’t think Paul (”Population Bomb”) Ehrlich is even enjoying hell anymore. All the hydrocarbons are being pumped out.
Over the summer the USGS updated their report to reflect the higher figure of four trillion bbl. equivalent of kerogen in the formation, perhaps one-half recoverable.
The in situ heating of the kerogen within shale allows conversion to a light crude like material. Tight oil is a more apt description of the Bakken formation, which only needs cracks to allow flow.
The Qmast process is applicable to work-over of non-producing fracked wells with the formation plugged with paraffin, etc. This has been stated by Peter Kearl as a likely first target application of the technology.
Peak Oil gets pushed back another hundred years.
I can’t wait to hear the fits the enviro-luddites will have over this.
If it makes money they hate it. Unless it’s phones or computers.
No. That will rather, infuriate the enviros exponentially. Any energy production is anathema. If they were rational about desiring safety and minimizing pollution they would be pushing thorium nuclear reactors but they are even more hysterical about them than about the reactors we have because they are safe and non polluting.
Generating the power for microwaves seems like a net negative, unless they have really cheap power.
” and appease environmentalists while they’re at it.”
LOL. That will never happen. They are against any and all forms of energy that are cost-effective and practical. They will make up reasons to oppose any new way to extract fossil fuels.
Don’t like it. It would kill the offshore drilling industry, and take a large part of our Merchant Marine with it.
Shades of Atlas Shrugged.
“..energy revolution than fracking — and appease environmentalists while they’re at it....”
Since the goal of Environmentalism is control over your life, this energy revolution will not appease the environmentalists.