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To: Graybeard58

Did they count oil shale deposits?


31 posted on 12/02/2007 9:18:51 AM PST by miliantnutcase
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To: miliantnutcase
At least some of the Alberta tar sands were counted.

Oil shale is at present a “resource” not a “reserve” since it is not known how or if the stuff can be processed to produce oil on an economically viable basis. [One of the Baltic States has produced oil shales for energy from a particularly rich deposit. It is my understanding that in that instance the kerogen was not processed to make oil, the rock itself was in essence thrown in a furnace. If that is the case, the result would something like burning the worst grade of coal imaginable.]

33 posted on 12/02/2007 9:28:45 AM PST by R W Reactionairy ("Everyone is entitled to their own opinion ... but not to their own facts" Daniel Patrick Moynihan)
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