Oil Shale

[DRCAL]

I've been looking for that article for months. Thanks.
I'm not exactly sure that the technology has arrived, but my stepfather who was a petrologist, excellent scientist, and corporate executive thought some twenty yrars ago that pressurized steam injection at 1000 degrees F in one hole combined with liquid hydrogen pumped down a parallel hole would crack the oil shale.
Incidentally, USCI has the portable steam injection system and HYVR has a portable hydrogen producing unit. Drilling of the holes would be the major expense.
Check into this and make us the richest men on earth.

[Dennis P Roth]

Shale Oil - The Elusive Energy
by Walter L. Youngquist
http://hubbert.mines.edu/news/Youngquist_98-4.pdf
Why Oil Shale hasn't worked in the past and isn't likely to be economic any time soon.

[jmhollen]

Actually, I have two..................!!

They were on SALE at Sears back in the summer of '77.



I also have several very valuable Beanie Babies, a
Marvin the Martian, a Taz and a Bugs Bunny my girls gave me....





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[Booster]

I don't believe you have a buddy.

[jmhollen]

I had a buddy working on shale projects in Colorado, until the gas prices fell and they shut down.

There are substantial shale reseves in the US, and today's gas prices may relight that candle here.

John