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36 comments on Queensland Shale Oil Billions in The Balance ?
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If we were able to use cheap solar thermal for the underground heating process, what effect does that have on the economic and environmental costs? It might well be that the intermittency of supply might not be a problem for such applications. Perhaps some strange combination of green and brown technologies will be used?
Shale oil is a false hope. EROI figures continue to prove that shale oil is so difficult, wasteful and polluting to extract that it cannot be seen as a viable alternative to oil. Coal to petrol is similar. Never will oil flow from shale oil deposits like the oil does in places like say Iraq, or for that matter like it used to do in places like Texas USA. If Australia was the "clever country' we would have been working to secure our own liquid fuel independance as soon as the figures showing Australian oil had peaked well over a decade ago. But no-one said anything and all the while China has been honing in to take OUR gas from us, with the help of the corrupted, pork barrelling governments of Australia. Now the gas is signed over and the Chinese WILL ensure they get our LNG. To be honest I find it disturbing that on a site such as this we are still debating rubbish like Shale - to - oil to feed our manic obsession with an "easy driving" lifestyle.
If we were to develop cheap solar thermal then would it not be better to use it at 80% efficiency in battery electric cars rather than extract oil (lose about 80%) and then burn it at 15% efficiency in an IC car????
Yes.