[Peakoil] Shale oil in Australia

[Antony Barry]

On 28/06/2006, at 10:36 AM, Nature and Society Forum wrote:

> There is a useful article in the Times 2 section of the Canberra  
> Times today about Australia's shale oil deposits. Apparently they  
> take Australia almost up to Libya in terms of total petroleum  
> reserves.

BUT to turn it into something useful you need hydrogen which at the  
moment comes from natural gas and you need a lots of petrol to run  
the machinery to mine it and electricity to process it. So the EROEI  
is not too good.
A good subject for a letter to the editor methinks.

Tony

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