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To: Buckey who wrote (49)	5/4/2006 7:38:32 PM
From: rrm_bcnu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110

You really think that? Some visionaries can only see their feet. Others see the future. "This fuel cell system represents a breakthrough approach for unconventional oil recovery. The system utilizes high temperature solid oxide fuel cells to slowly heat the oil shale formation in an "in-situ" manner. The heat travels through the rock, pressurizing the underground formation, lowering the viscosity of the oil in the shale, while creating "off-gases" of high quality. Both the oil and gases are moved into collector wells, where they are extracted by conventional means." "The compelling innovation of the system is that it is designed to run off the gases that are derived from the heated oil shale formation itself. By using a portion of the gases generated during the process as its fuel, the fuel cell system thus becomes self-fueling. It also produces electricity as a by-product. As a result, this technology simply offers a better net energy balance than other unconventional oil recovery methods. In addition, this is all accomplished without the major environmental impacts associated with oil shale mining or surface retorting alternatives." biz.yahoo.com

To: Buckey who wrote (49)	5/7/2006 1:49:09 AM
From: jmhollen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110

"..Jus' so's ya know................ My old buddy Ron Platt was a civil engineer/surveyor on some of the big Shale Oil projects in Colorado in the late '70s and early 80's. As I understand it from phone discussion on the subject, they would bore down through the overbearing rock strata and then start a fire going in the underground zones containing the oil shale. This created a "..retort.." effect. The resulting hot gas and oil-bearing vapors would come back up the pipe and be condensed into liquids that could then be sent to refineries for further processing/distillation. p2pays.org Prior to being injected into the hot gas condensors, the high-temperature gas stream could have been run through a "..recovery boiler.." ( heat exchanger ), so that excess energy headed towards the condensors could be tapped to make steam for generating electricity. Industrial recovery boilers with associated steam-driven turbine-generators are readily availble from both new and used sources worldwide. Whether DIGG is doing that or not is not the issue of my post. However, it is quite clear that they could be doing that with proven and available technology if they have the opportunity or desire to do so. Per Lee Iacocca, "..do's - do, learners follow, and dumbarses hopefully get the hail out of the way..". Concurrently, witless, bickering Board-Bashers with no practical experience or engineering education - much like Hillary - blow stanky brown smoke out both their upper and lower exhaust ports. John :-) .