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On Apr 6, 5:01*pm, "Private" wrote:
Just a small nitpick, the Canadian non-conventional oil is in the form of oil-sand / tar-sand. *IIRC oil shale is located under Colorado and is reported to contain more oil than the mid east or Canada. *IIRC the Colorado oil shale is deeper underground than the Canadian tar-sand but Canada is now developing & using SAGD (Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage) to recover deposits that are too deep for economical open pit extraction. *I suspect that this technology could be applied in Colorado if there was the will to develop these deposits. *IIRC tar-sand production cost is ~$60 and suspect that Colorado oil shale woild be similar but YMMV. *We can only speculate as to the motives that prefer war to domestic development. Interesting! I hadn't heard about the Colorado oil shale before. I just did a little surfing and it sounds like it would require a lot of water to extract this oil. There is concern that it would use all the capacity of the Colorado river that is not currently allocated. Personally I wish we had taken the money we have wasted on the war and put it to work here at home for research into alternative energy sources. Then it would have funded more American jobs, and maybe contributed to a long-term sustainable energy plan. I would like to see a serious, well-funded attempt to develop a working fusion reactor, for example. Phil |
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