Tar Sands and Oil Shale

I need to make a few corrections on Taylor's video . . . 800 Billion barrels will not last us for 400 years at 20 million barrels a day (7.3 Billion annually). But it will last us for over 100 years though.

Taylor also doesn't make it clear that 90% of the water would be recycled in the production and extraction of the Tar Sands and Shale Oil. She also doesn't mention about the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota, which is mostly shale and contains almost as much oil as the Green River Formation.

Canada is currently developing their Tar Sands on a large scale and getting larger every year, currently about 2 million barrels a day and their goal is to do over 3 million barrels a day with the next several years.

The US has the most Shale in the world, but is still reluctant to develop this abundant resource. There is enough oil from our shale to last us over 150 years even without imports.

This Video was made by Taylor Alexandra. Thanks Taylor :)
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• Vulcan750L

[darthvader5300]

You Americans can increased your oil production of your old and abandoned oil wells by underreaming these wells back to their original production output, at first it's expensive but once it is done the increased production can payoff the costs gradually and after the initial underreaming is done oil revenues must set aside funding periodically for periodic undeereaming indefinitely.

[Vulcan750L]

@darthvader5300

What is underreaming?

She didn't mention thermo-depolymerization because it isn't being used in Tar Sands processing, not yet anyway, as far as I know. Few people know anything about what you're talking about, including Taylor. Lets be fair.

They are doing something similar though, where they use the by-product from the Tar Sands processing, natural gas, I think, to provide the heat necessary for the process, making it much more efficient.

You're a bit paranoid about

[darthvader5300]

@Vulcan750L Not paranoid, just realistic. We Russians has also developed independently our own version of the thermal depolymerization process to clean up our Elga coal deposits and tar sands from remote parts of Siberia. It is a success. Underreaming is when we make the holes deep underground much larger to remove the clogged rock surface sides of the holes thus unclogging the old oil wells making them as productive like new oil wells.

[Vulcan750L]

@darthvader5300

It is not realistic to think that everyone is controlled by the oil companies and that everyone works for the big corporations. That is not realistic, it is paranoia.

Taylor is a college student making a documentary on Shale and Tar Sands.

[darthvader5300]

And she has forgotten that an another successful process called thermo-depolymerization can seperate the components of raw coal such as mercury, arsenic, lead, cadnium, sulphur, etc and sell them separately at a profit, leaving only pure carbon thus cleaning up the coal and recycling any water used in this process. The same process can be used on tar sands and shale oil rocks deposits. Is it any wonder why she left this proven process out? Corporate suppression of competition is the answer!

[TheChristianRight09]

;) Awesome,the oil industry pays its workers well.........................T­he process will only get more efficient....

[Vulcan750L]

@Tadgh78

You seem to have a talent for misinterpreting, misreading, and missing the point. Your reading comprehension skills are atrocious.

You are confusing energy consumption with energy production numbers. There is a difference.

Energy PRODUCED from oil burning power plants is 1% of the total electricity produced in the US.

The amount of energy we CONSUME in the US in the form of oil every year is about 37% of the energy mix. This is almost entirely for transportation, not electricity.

[Tadgh78]

@Vulcan750L You think only 1% of energy comes from oil!? Guess again!. FYI 37% of total U.S energy comes from oil.You can look it up. That is a pretty darn big tank of juice to replace with a few windmills and slime farms. If you know so little about the part oil plays in energy supply, what else or you way off the mark on? You obviously lack a basic understanding of these subjects and I'm afraid don't have any more time to educate you. I'm done here. Good day! :-D