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In a message dated 11/14/2006 5:58:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
Clansgian AT wmconnect.com writes:

Your father is being 
ripped off big time because Dutch Royal  Shell claims to hold rights to the 
proces.  They inject a very great  amount of heat into and hydrogen into the 
ground 
to crack the kerogen in  the oil shale 'in situ'.  It is heavily polluting 
the 
water in  several areas and it requires a very tremendous amount of energy to 
 
operate.


Well, it  wouldn't be my father being ripped off, he was head of R&D for Dow  
Chemical and he developed the process, turned over and Dow sold it. It  was 
his plan and the patents are still in his name. You may find though, that  
this 
is not the end all, beat all system for processing, Dow is still  testing in 
Texas and has made vast improvements on what is being used now.  


Americans are utterly brainwashed with the idea of "where  there's a will, 
there's  a way", after all, we put a man on the moon  so we can make oil gush 
out 
of rocks if we put our mind to  it.




Plenty of Americans said that very thing about our chances of going to the  
moon, and there are still doubters out there that we ever did.
 
Drew