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Originally Posted by bookworm_020
There was a story on oil sand / oil shale mining here in australia on the 60 minutes program. It is possible to produce oil and do so at a cost less than the current price of oil, but what about the damage to the area they dig up to get at it? Not to mention all the waste that is produced (more CO2 than producing a standard barrell of oil.
As one of the figures that was put up was in all the time of oil sand mining in the U.S. less than 1 km2 has been rehabilitated back to the natural state.
Time to start thinking out side the box for energy production.  |
Actually BP was allowed to test in Utah and found a way to extract it for less money than normal oil at the time, and this was back in 2000.
They did some form of chemical process that made it easy.
-S