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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] oil was:Political
  • Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:36:20 -0500



Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

By present methods it takes nearly as much energy to extract gasoline from oil shale and oil sand as you get in the final product. You are only burning up vast amounts of energy to change forms of energy.

True, hence the need for better, more efficient, technology.

>
As to new discoveries, you probably heard of the Jack 2 tauted recently in the Gulf.

This is what I referred to when I talked about ultra deep wells.

Large oil wells are called Kings, smaller ones are Queens, and still
smaller ones are Jacks.

I did not know that...cool. Thanks.


Jack 1 was almost dry. Jack two might, (that's
MIGHT) yield as much as 15 billion barrels of oil ( or as little as 300 million). How much oil is that? The world uses 82 million barrels of oil a day ... even IF that well could be successfully pumped, and IF it yielded the very maximum estimate, and IF you could get it from the deep well site to on shore pipelines ... all those if's ..... that well couldn't supply the world oil but for six months.

Hmmm. The assessments I have read have touted the supply at Jack 2 much higher than what you obviously have read.

Bev
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BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
34.498N 85.076W Bev is Earth, Ron is Sky





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