Global warming has....
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...Take that, Greenpeas...possibly made it even easier for the Canadians to scrape a few more inches of oil shale off the top of some land in the far north that nobody much cares about and make all their fuel for a year...
Which might be tosh but seems to have been done recently - they worked an area about the size of a big town removed a few inches of ex-permafrosted land, mashed the collected muck up and... voila... lots and lots of useable fuel oil...
waiting for a pounding for accuracy from somebody who has a more refined (geddit?) view of that information...
Which might be tosh but seems to have been done recently - they worked an area about the size of a big town removed a few inches of ex-permafrosted land, mashed the collected muck up and... voila... lots and lots of useable fuel oil...
waiting for a pounding for accuracy from somebody who has a more refined (geddit?) view of that information...
XXVIII said:
...possibly made it even easier for the Canadians to scrape a few more inches of oil shale off the top of some land in the far north that nobody much cares about and make all their fuel for a year...
Which might be tosh but seems to have been done recently - they worked an area about the size of a big town removed a few inches of ex-permafrosted land, mashed the collected muck up and... voila... lots and lots of useable fuel oil...
waiting for a pounding for accuracy from somebody who has a more refined (geddit?) view of that information...
Can't coment on the details (or be arsed to look them up) but I too have heard that Canada have huge amounts of non-liquid reserves, so to speak.Which might be tosh but seems to have been done recently - they worked an area about the size of a big town removed a few inches of ex-permafrosted land, mashed the collected muck up and... voila... lots and lots of useable fuel oil...
waiting for a pounding for accuracy from somebody who has a more refined (geddit?) view of that information...
Ok - so I have just looked it up, albeit good ol' Wiki.
Wiki said:
Canada's proven oil reserves were estimated at 179 billion barrels (28×109 m3) in 2007. This figure includes oil sands reserves which are estimated by government regulators to be economically producible at current prices using current technology.[18] According to this figure, Canada's reserves are second only to Saudi Arabia.
Edited by Asterix on Wednesday 6th August 22:48
dan1981 said:
1how long does 179 billion barrels last? how many barrels do we use a year at the moment?
85.7 million/day in 2007, so the Canadian shale would last roughly 5.7 years assuming no increase in consumption.twister said:
dan1981 said:
1how long does 179 billion barrels last? how many barrels do we use a year at the moment?
85.7 million/day in 2007, so the Canadian shale would last roughly 5.7 years assuming no increase in consumption.plus saudi have more so say what another 8 years?
and then everyone elses.....
doesn't look like i'll have to worry to much.
dan1981 said:
1how long does 179 billion barrels last? how many barrels do we use a year at the moment?
wiki said:
World demand for oil is projected to increase 37% over 2006 levels by 2030 (118 million barrels per day (18.8×106 m3/d) from 86 million barrels (13.7×106 m3)).
Btw - only using Wiki as I can't be arsed to delve any deeper - not now anyway.How long will it last? Around 5.7yrs at 2006's rate and just over 4yrs at 2030's rate!
AudioVideoDisco said:
Oh goody!
More oil! That's fantasic news!
More oil, more GHG, more climate change, more floods, more temperature rise for disaster torn Africa et al AND we can lose some more coastline. Excellent.
I never liked Brighton much anyway.
More oil! That's fantasic news!
More oil, more GHG, more climate change, more floods, more temperature rise for disaster torn Africa et al AND we can lose some more coastline. Excellent.
I never liked Brighton much anyway.
Don't you let Turbobloke catch you spouting such nonsense laddie.
s2art said:
B17NNS said:
So how long till we run out totally?
Well, the USA and Canada have approx 2 trillion barrels of oil from tar sands and oil shales. So a bit longer yet.Gassing Station | The Pie & Piston Archive | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff