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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (4309)	6/18/2006 11:25:20 AM
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"Oil Shale Development Imminent" Posted by Robert Rapier on Sunday June 18, 2006 at 9:12 AM EST The article went on to describe the Shell process in greater detail: Imagine a football field, Udall said. Now, imagine that they freeze the perimeter of the field to about 2,000 feet deep. Then, they take the water out of the middle of the field. Once the water is removed, they will drill wells 30 to 40 feet apart, and insert long electric heaters. Shell then plans to heat the rock to about 700 degrees Fahrenheit, and keep it that hot for three years - completing the work that nature would have done if the oil shale had been buried deeper, Udall said. theoildrum.com Somewhere, Rube Goldberg must be LHAO.