[Ditto]

Uses intense heat", where do we get that?

Well you also use "intense heat" to crack and refine crude oil. You burn some oil to heat the rest is how you get it.

If they can produce it at $10 a barrel like the article says, that's a damn good deal.

[dufekin]

Now this WILL strong-arm OPEC, especially if put into wide use. Monopolies and cartels despise nothing more than they abhor competition. So we should expedite this research--and open ANWR to oil drilling. Good news on the oil-drilling front also comes from Tennessee and Oklahoma.