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Old 04-03-2008, 13:17 PM   #19 (permalink)
citanon
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Yeah, the new thing about the oil shale is that the technology for extracting them has finally arrived thanks to Shell's research. The concept - heating an enormous underground area to 650 F while constructing a solid barrier around it by freezing the groundwater - is one of those series of consecutive miracles type approaches that one would never expect to work, but sometimes does, in technology.
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