more on Oil Independence?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Hawkins, Dave" <dhawkins () nrdc org>
Date: September 12, 2005 8:48:47 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: RE: [IP] Oil Independence?


The other thing this process produces is more CO2 than conventional oil
production (those heaters need energy to run).  This will exacerbate
global warming, which will lead to more intense hurricanes.  There are
solutions; they involve getting serious about efficiency --we can build
fuel-efficient vehicle faster than we can build refineries--; doing more
with wind and solar; and capturing CO2 for geologic storage from the
fossil fuels we continue to use

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From: "Robert C. Atkinson" <rca53 () columbia edu>
Date: September 12, 2005 6:40:44 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Oil Independence?


This is a promising development. Excerpts below, full link:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/
0,1299,DRMN_86_4051709,00.html
What do IP skeptics say?


> Shell's method, which it calls "in situ conversion," is simplicity
> itself in concept but exquisitely ingenious in execution. Terry
> O'Connor, a vice president for external and regulatory affairs at
> Shell Exploration and Production, explained how it's done (and they
> have done it, in several test projects):
>
> Drill shafts into the oil-bearing rock. Drop heaters down the shaft.
> Cook the rock until the hydrocarbons boil off, the lightest and most
> desirable first. Collect them.
>
> Please note, you don't have to go looking for oil fields when you're
> brewing your own.
.



> Upwards of a million barrels an acre, a billion barrels a square mile.


> And the oil shale formation in the Green River Basin, most of which is


> in Colorado, covers more than a thousand square miles - the largest
> fossil fuel deposits in the world.
>
> Wow.
>
> They don't need subsidies; the process should be commercially feasible


> with world oil prices at $30 a barrel. The energy balance is
> favorable; under a conservative life-cycle analysis, it should yield
> 3.5 units of energy for every 1 unit used in production. The process
> recovers about 10 times as much oil as mining the rock and crushing
> and cooking it at the surface, and it's a more desirable grade.
> Reclamation is easier because the only thing that comes to the surface


> is the oil you want.


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