** Private ** wrote: > Um, I don't think you're looking at real statistics. According to this > report we have a LOT more than you think: > > http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2005/RAND_MG414.pdf > > The largest known oil shale deposits in the world are in the Green > River Formation, > which covers portions of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. Estimates of the > oil > resource in place within the Green River Formation range from 1.5 to 1. > 8 trillion > barrels.
You seem to be confusing proven reserves with production. To put that huge number in perspective, Canada has about 1.2 trillion barrels locked away in tar sands, but they only produce about 800000 barrels a day. According to http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/reserves/npr/publications/npr_strategic_significancev2.pdf 2 million barrels a day is a realistic upper limit, but I will grant you the 5 million that is mentioned by the (obviously influenced by Shell) article at http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/30/magazines/fortune/Oil_from_stone.fortune/ And that technology is far more realistic then the Israeli stuff that requires 2 million tonnes on refinery waste to produce 3 million tonnes of oil: where are you going to get refinery waste when everything operates on shale in the first place? Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:249192 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
