For comparision, but note this is several years old. Petroleum has risen even more compared to the others.
Source:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/archive/aeo07/overview.html
Posted on 07/24/2008 7:00:09 AM PDT by rface
Good stuff.
A few oil shale refineries would send the OPEC mafia scrambling to reduce prices.
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does the oil have to be extracted or can the rock also be burned like coal?
Bump.
When are some prominent Republicans going to stand up and say WHY the Democrats are blocking oil production? It is not enough just to say they are.
Oh, I forgot, Republicans don’t have the stones to publicly call Democrats socialists. They might be called mean spirited.....instead of just stoopid.
Not that means they are open to agenda driven propaganda but, in fact, they are.
Science is not all that good a reference unless you have some other article of comparable nature available in a different peer reviewed journal.
End of story.
To use it for transportation fuel, we need to extract the liquid petroleum.
Just what Alaska has faced for decades.
what about electric power plants?
One of many great ideas.
Last week at a local political event one speaker asked the audience: How many nuclear power plants had been built in America over the last 30 years? Many answered 0, 1, 2, etc. He stated over two hundred and then talked about how our navel fleet has been built around nuke power and that should tell us it is safe and reliable and that we need to move forward with nuclear generation facilities. I agree
For comparision, but note this is several years old. Petroleum has risen even more compared to the others.
Source:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/archive/aeo07/overview.html
The oil is cooked out of the rock with heat. In one method above ground, in the other below ground, in the first there is a lot of rock to dispose of, while in the second this is, of course, not a issue. So no the rock is not like coal.
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read later
this is from wikipedia (so it may be true)
Oil shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock, containing significant amounts of kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds), from which liquid hydrocarbons can be manufactured. The name oil shale is something of a misnomer as the rock is not necessarily a shale and the hydrocarbon in it is not truly oil. Deposits of oil shale are located around the world, including major deposits in the United States. Global deposits are estimated as equivalent to 2.9–3.3 trillion (2.9–3.3 x 1012) barrels of recoverable oil.
The kerogen in oil shale can be converted to synthetic crude oil through the chemical process of pyrolysis. When heated to a sufficiently high temperature a vapor is driven off which can be distilled (retorted) to yield a petroleum-like shale oil—a form of non-conventional oil—and combustible shale gas (shale gas can also refer to gas occurring naturally in shales). Oil shale can also be burnt directly as a low-grade fuel for power generation and heating purposes, and be used as a raw material in the chemical and construction materials industries.
it also says 90% of elctricity in Estonia is produced by burning oil shale
We really need to get over this silly carbon footprint thing. Let's call it the "Plant Food Quotient".
Nuclear for electricity as the exclusive energy source for electricity . That fees up oil shale, coal to oil , natural gas etc for cars.
Coal for coal to oil liquefaction.
Oil Shale only for petroleum.
Natural gas for cars.
etc.
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