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What's the next stage? Sticking giant electrodes into tar sands that are powered by nuclear reactors?

Well... Big oil getting desperate: Making oil with nuclear energy by Jerome a Paris on September 24th, 2005

Total May Use Atomic Power At Oil-Sand Project (WSJ, behind subscription wall)
PARIS -- French oil giant Total SA, amid rising oil and natural-gas prices, is considering building a nuclear power plant to extract ultraheavy oil from the vast oil-sand fields of western Canada.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jul 9th, 2014 at 08:24:54 AM EST
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Re: Durable $100 oil (none / 0)

We're doomed.

I won't even bother adding the ™

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Jul 9th, 2014 at 09:02:32 AM EST
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Re: Durable $100 oil (4.00 / 2)

Doom is in the public domain now.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jul 9th, 2014 at 09:20:46 AM EST
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