Peak oil... Again...!!!
 

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U.S. oil industry set to break record, upend global trade

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN1F50HV

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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Surging shale production is poised to push U.S. oil output to more than 10 million barrels per day - toppling a record set in 1970 and crossing a threshold few could have imagined even a decade ago.

It looks like there is going to be plenty of oil for the foreseeable future. :thumbup:

Lets just not waste it...


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It sounds like supply isn't the problem; it's the economics. Shale can't be replenished from deep, hot abiotic sources like those pockets of sweet crude oil.

Meanwhile it's up against the falling price of 24-hour solar:

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/1...t-dunes-nevada

NM just because the #3 oil producing state because of new technology.

They dig it out the ground, and us muppets burn it.

Honestly, I am more concerned with contaminated drinking water, earthquakes, and sinkholes.

That's also my concern when it comes to shale oil. IIRC extraction of shale gas had been banned in Costa Rica for the very same reason.

I'm concerned about growing hills of Spent Shale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale_coke

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...SpentShale.jpg

Runoff must be a pretty with all of the colors of the rainbow.

I thought the shale was left in the ground, with water/frack fluid forcing the petrolium up and out of the earth.

That's fracking. I didn't know until I looked that there is an in situ method using heat instead of water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale_oil_extraction

That's sure a matter of concern. Couldn't it be used to make cement like it's done with coal ashes? BTW nowadays some ethanol breweries that burn the sugarcane bagass for heating and co-generation are also reusing the ashes to make cement.

Cement or concrete aggregate? I saw that's it's used for aggregate, but I can't find the reference. It's probably uneconomic to move it (as a bulk material) to the point of use.

Ahh, I didn't know what the shale I was talking about. I've got no fracking idea what I was thinking. I'm prepared to have strong opinions on the subjects though! :p

If it's an environmental hazard and the waste is sufficiently regulated, then using it as an aggregate would be an economical way to deal with it.

Then again, where does old aggregate go to die?

I was told it was used to make cement, but it was some 18 years ago when I went on a school trip to a coal-fed powerplant. Since there is at least one cement factory nearby, it might be true.