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Firm touts low-water shale recovery
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And yet, alternative energy largely relies upon unproven technology. If you don't try something like this oil shale extraction technology on a reasonable scale, then you can simply never verify how much water may or may not be required to produce energy from this resource.
Most of the water required for these processes us used by the workers who live in the area, and for dust suppression during mining. Although this may not be our "best" energy option, it needs to be allowed to progress to see if it is indeed a viable alternative energy source.
People are complaining about gas prices right now. Wait until they find out the cost of getting oil from this process. Might as well sell the house to pay for a tank of gas made this way.
The article only made brief mention about a "generator" being required if the site isn't on the power grid. What wasn't mentioned was how large the generator would need to be - hundreds of megawatts is not unreasonable for full-scale oil shale recovery.
Can you just plug into the local grid and expect 300 - 600 megawatts as soon as the meter's hooked up? Not a prayer. Even with power lines running through your site you'll be told that you either need to pay for your own power generation or pay the power company to build new generating capacity for you.
And how will all that current be generated? They'll burn coal. It's insane.
If we want to develop alternative fuel sources and, for that matter, sufficient power supplies, coal needs to be a player.
Yeah, the Sierra Clubbers, as "commies under the bed", want us to live like people in the Mideast, where vast amounts of power are used to maintain an arificial ski run inside of a building. Outside the building, it's 120 degrees.
Your post sounds pretty much like a temper tantrum, all right, but is completely nonsensical.
Actually the cost of oil shale production is much cheaper per barrel than the price of oil now. Water is an issue, but processes cannot be developed at large scales unless they are allowed to be developed by the government and the public. Many seem to use lack of large scale information as a barrier for development. Without development, there is no information at these scales, so ... well, maybe in China.
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