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Practical Method for Getting Oil from Oil Shale?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the save-my-pocket-book dept.

ConfigurationManager writes "An article in the Rocky Mountain News describes how Shell has demonstrated a practical way to extract oil from the shale deposits in Colorado. Since it describes those deposits as "the largest fossil fuel deposits in the world," that could be a very good thing for those of us who are currently paying anywhere from $3 on up for a gallon of regular unleaded."

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  1. ITER by evilbessie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://www.iter.org/site.htm/ They have finally chosen France over Japan, and hopefully this technology will prive to be useful comercially.

  2. Re:Screw Iraq, let's invade Colorado. by abrods01 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sir,I belive we already screwed them up pretty badly. Oops,I think it did it again. As for Colorado,we don't have enough troops to invade, we still have to find WMD's in Iraq, unless you Sir know where they are. (Do you?, 'Cause we are REALLY lost).