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To: mishedlo who wrote (99512)7/8/2009 2:24:53 PM
From: Elroy Jetson  Respond to of 116555
 
Getting natural gas out of shale is easy with lateral drilling and fracturing techniques.

Getting oil out of the 350 year supply of oil shale in the U.S. is very similar to getting oil out of coal. You would have to be very desperate, like Germany was at the end of WW-II.
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To: mishedlo who wrote (99512)7/8/2009 2:35:40 PM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116555
 
Let me elaborate on that.

You can mine and burn oil shale just as you would coal, but you end up with oil shale puffed-up like popcorn to twice it's original size - and it's a toxic waste too! Can't beat that.

Compare that to the ash disposal costs of coal.

About the only advantages of oil shale over coal, is oil shale has a somewhat higher hydrogen to carbon ratio than coal does.
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