Oil Shale, Enough Oil for Over 150 Years!

A little known resource. Few know that the US has more oil than all the oil in the middle east, many times over! In this video they don't mention the Bakken Oil Fields, but it is almost as big as the Green River Formation as talked about here.

When people talk about oil, they ONLY talk about light crude as if other sources or forms of oil do not exist.

Heavy oil, tar sands, and oil shale account for more oil than conventional oil, much more than the world's supply of light crude.

If you take into account these unconventional oils, the US has more oil than all the oil in the Middle East many times over, enough to last us over 150 years without having to import a single drop.

If we take advantage of this abundant resource, the United States could triple our domestic oil production and become an oil exporting country once again.

We could sell to the Chinese and reverse the trade imbalance with them, and we won't have to buy hundreds of billions of dollars worth of oil every year from the Arabs countries.

And in the meantime, we can continue on our path to renewable energies and electric cars and eliminate our dependency on oil completely.

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@adrianwillis360 So, to entirely replace today's oil energy -- something which probably wouldn't be needed for thousands of years -- would only take about 7.2 times as much stationary nuclear production capacity as currently exists.

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Meanwhile, China alone is planning on doubling the world stationary nuclear generating capacity over the next 40 years: world-nuclear. org/info/inf63. html

"Additional reactors are planned [...] to [...] increase [...] nuclear capacity to [...] 400 GWe by 2050."

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@adrianwillis360 "it takes 23,000 neclear powere plants working for 30 years, just to produce one years supply of oil."

Simple math show us that isn't true. Today's 435 stationary nuclear-electric reactor units produce 7.735 trillion kWht per year. 32.85 bb/y = 55.84 trillion kWht per year. 55.84 / 7.735 = 7.219 years.

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"if you could replace oil neclear power to dig it up, you would not need oil in the first place."

Oil would still be valuable, just as it is today, because of its packaging.

[adrianwillis360]

@hitssquad you realy don't understand EROEI. it takes 2 oil to get 3 shale oil. if you use nuclear power, it takes 23,000 neclear powere plants working for 30 years, just to produce one years supply of oil. if you could replace oil neclear power to dig it up, you would not need oil in the first place. The only chance is solar or neclear fussion. Germany is making 3 GW solar panles, they will do the job, intill some one booms the solar panles and there's no oil to make more.

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@4aSteadyStateEconomy "They are deliberately not talking about the critical net-energy/EROEI factor."

That's because EROEI is *not* critical, owing to the fact that the energy invested can be in the form of cheap uranium or thorium which costs only 7 cents for the energy equivalent of a far-more-valuable barrel of oil. In other words, the value of uranium is in its energy, whereas the value of a barrel of oil is *not* in its energy -- it's in its *packaging*.

[4aSteadyStateEconomy]

Kerogen shale is like a guy with a shovel, digging in a damp riverbed, expending tremendous amounts of energy to wring water out of the sand, sweating pints of of his own water just to gain a few pints from the sand, then claiming he's found a vast water supply. It's called "failure to do the math."

Obviously, engineers working on shale know its limitations, but armchair conspiracy theorists need to stop calling U.S. shale a "locked up Saudi Arabia" by ignoring its low EROEI.

[4aSteadyStateEconomy]

They are deliberately not talking about the critical net-energy/EROEI factor. Technical reserves are all hype if the oil can't be affordably extracted. The "wet" Bakken shale can be fracked with limited net-energy gains, but dry kerogen shale has been null in terms of EROEI since you have to cook the oil out of it (which only works if it doesn't use more energy than the shale delivers). Scars on the landscape and water usage in desert areas aren't trivial, either.

[darthvader5300]

The Karrick Retort Process is now an open patent and is now open to the public for it can process all kinds of coal and ALL KINDS OF SHALE ( except one type of shale w/c is problematical) into oil, co-generate electricity, produce coal gas, produce coal tar for the petrochemical industry. It cleans up the coal into a smokeless semi-coke char that produces more heat than raw coal. The process is mechanically automated, cheaper, self-cleaning, dependable and reliable, and open for free public use.

[52111centrumcz]

@acavideo

MARS are melting, and the weather storms inside Jupiters atmosphere have been some of the most violent in the past 80 years of observation; note how other planets in the solar system are warming with no anthropogenic input? Well...to put down what I believe; the planet is warming SLIGHTLY and most of this warming is NOT caused by human behaviour; and the effect that humans have of lowering albedo has as much if not greater effect than that of CO2 emission.

[52111centrumcz]

@acavideo

The majority of climatologists DO NOT AGREE WITH EACH OTHER. "It comes down to CO2 acting like a thicker blanket". Maybe you are a little thick yourself; but read what I wrote again; we are very near a point WHERE FURTHER CO2 INCREASES WILL NOT INCREASE HEAT RETENTION. Not to mention NASA satelites sent up to search for atmospheric warming predicted as necessary for warming of the globe has...found the atmosphere has not warmed. Let alone noone has explained why the CO2 glaciers on

[52111centrumcz]

@Pikaaoil

CO2 is a non issue for people with some understanding of chemistry/spectral absorbtion. Because we already have passed a point where the increase in CO2 will no longer increase temperatures because maximum retention in the spectra where CO2 absorbs has been reached some time ago.