Re: Colorado set to be the new Texas: Oil Shale
On one small test plot about 20 feet by 35 feet, on land Shell owns, they started heating the rock in early 2004. "Product" - about one-third natural gas, two-thirds light crude - began to appear in September 2004. They turned the heaters off about a month ago, after harvesting about 1,500 barrels of oil.
While we were trying to do the math, O'Connor told us the answers. Upwards of a million barrels an acre, a billion barrels a square mile. And the oil shale formation in the Green River Basin, most of which is in Colorado, covers more than a thousand square miles - the largest fossil fuel deposits in the world.
Hmmm... If 33% of the output is natural gas, then maybe a hybrid vehicle that is a CNG/electric combination would be a viable configuration? I suppose that it wouldn't take a lot of engineering to combine a HCH with the HC/GX.
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