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To: Mount Athos
Interesting article. Thanks for posting it.
I've heard that there are substantial deposits of shale oil here in the US - but economicaly, it's been unfeasable to drill for it.
Hopefully, this one will work.
2 posted on
09/03/2005 2:04:11 PM PDT by
MplsSteve
To: Mount Athos
3 posted on
09/03/2005 2:04:53 PM PDT by
RippleFire
("It's a joke, son!")
To: Mount Athos
The US should do this on a massive scale, even if we just break even, for national security purposes and to SCREW OPEC.
To: Mount Athos
Believe me the Watermelons and RAT Congresscritters will fight this to the death.
If they will not allow the small footprint operation near ANWR
6 posted on
09/03/2005 2:09:39 PM PDT by
Mike Darancette
(Mesocons for Rice '08)
To: Dark Wing; Dog Gone; Ernest_at_the_Beach
7 posted on
09/03/2005 2:11:34 PM PDT by
Thud
To: Mount Athos
OMG, can you imagine? We would be totally free of dependence on other countries for oil! That would be incredible.
9 posted on
09/03/2005 2:13:53 PM PDT by
McGavin999
(Global Dumbing far more serious threat than Global Warming)
To: Mount Athos
Good post. Look at the Northern Rocky Mountains States and High Great Plains region USA/Canada, they have abundant domestic natural gas, coal bed natural gas, and coal and oil-shale and nuclear resources, so vast as to supply America's energy needs for at least 300-500 year to around $100 TRILLION. The Northern regions are the FUTURE for the USA and our energy companies, we don't need to go Hat-in-Hand overseas for our energy needs.
10 posted on
09/03/2005 2:14:04 PM PDT by
FreeRep
To: Mount Athos
12 posted on
09/03/2005 2:15:34 PM PDT by
TEXOKIE
(Wear Red on Fridays to support the troops!!)
To: Mount Athos
Alright, but it took them ten months to get 1,500 barrels of oil. That is not enough.
To: Mount Athos
The Rats will protest....."We must protect the prairie dogs!"
To: Mount Athos
18 posted on
09/03/2005 2:24:21 PM PDT by
tomkat
To: Mount Athos
Now that Bush is a lame duck, maybe it's time for some executive orders to get this moving.... like Clinton did in the opposite direction.
To: Mount Athos
Nooooo! We must SAVE the land for the spotted snot fly and the narrow leaf shitweed!
24 posted on
09/03/2005 2:28:10 PM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: Mount Athos
Great news! Until the environuts do everything in their power to stop the spoiling of the "unspoiled Colorado wilderness."
To: Mount Athos
Forget it. Go with corn. It's the new oil.
28 posted on
09/03/2005 2:30:29 PM PDT by
Tanniker Smith
(By definition, we cannot have Consensus until you agree with me.)
To: Mount Athos
bookmarked for later reading/research
To: Mount Athos
"Upwards of a million barrels an acre, a billion barrels a square mile. And the oil shale formation in the Green River Basin, most of which is in Colorado, covers more than a thousand square miles - the largest fossil fuel deposits in the world."
That's roughly an area 32 miles x 32 miles, (of course it's certainly not in any perfect square!!) in one of the most desolate parts of the continent (I have been on all sides of that corner of Colorado/Wyoming/Utah.... only right along the Green River itself is there anything to write home about). Can't you just wait to see how environmentalists will suddenly wax poetic about how these scrubby, barren wastelands are suddenly the most precious wilderness in North America????
33 posted on
09/03/2005 2:38:12 PM PDT by
Enchante
To: Mount Athos
The Energy Returned on Energy Invested ("ERoEI") of shale oil is reported to be quite low, say 3:2 to 2:1, similar to that of tar sands. That means that a producer would get 3 barrels of oil out and processed by using 2. When the price of energy goes up, so does the price of producing and refining the shale oil. There is a saying: "Shale oil. Fuel of the future and always will be."
"Shale oil" isn't even real oil. It's a substance called kerogen, which is an oil precursor. It requires considerable, energy-intensive processing to turn it into usable products, like gasoline, diesel and heating oil. It also has required considerable amounts of water to process, which is in very short supply in the intermountain west, unlike northern Alberta.
I'll be thrilled if shale oil can be made to work, but I'm not betting the farm on it.
To: Mount Athos
Fight for an Energy-Independant USA...NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
37 posted on
09/03/2005 2:41:42 PM PDT by
msf92497
(My brain is "twitchy")
To: freepatriot32
something you might want to ping?
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