Interesting if accurate:
http://www.upi.com/Energy/view.php?StoryID=20061107-070924-5161r
And the CO2phobes begin to scream in 5...4...3...2....
If indeed workable, we can begin 2 things almost immediately, if played
right:
1. Rapidly shut down U.S. reliance on foreign oil imports, ideally ending
them altogether.
2. If it is so cheap, use the excess profits (well, some anyways, got to
give the companies some incentive) to begin constructing solar facilities in
the desert. This will take some pretty serious regulation, but should be
done.
The oil shale, if this works as well as it seems, may be our last chance to
get off our collective rear ends and set up permanently renewable energy
sources, while having a nice buffer of cheap, profit-making energy during
the time of transition. I can see the oil companies (if not involved in the
oil shale conversion process) and the envirofascists (this does not include
all those who are environmentalists, just the whackjobs) being the two
greatest threats to doing this.
--Kyle
