NJ5 on 06 November 2008
| SamuelRSmith said: @NJ5: Fresh water is easy to produce, though. Just take sea water, boil it, and collect the steam. |
Think about that... If the shale is located inland (as most of it probably is), we're talking about transporting millions of gallons of sea water every day for thousands of kilometers, and then using massive amounts of energy to boil it... This would make extraction even more expensive and decrease the EROEI further (from what already was a pretty low EROEI to begin with).
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