WHY THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ABOUT UNCONVENTIONAL OIL IS LIKELY TO BE WRONG

"As I am obliged time and again to remind people, recoverable isn't the same as economically recoverable. It is possible to recover rocks from the Moon. But we would never think of transporting rocks from the Moon to the Earth to make roadway aggregates. So, just how much oil from oil shale is currently available for purchase on world markets? The answer is none ... If we come to rely on an array of low EROI fuels, we may soon find that vast portions of our economy must now be occupied with energy gathering."

Ein Artikel von Kurt Cobb mit einer guten Übersicht über die Unzulänglichkeiten unkonventioneller Ölquellen, unsere heutigen, extrem Öl-abhängigen Gesellschaften nach dem Peak Oil der konventionellen Öllagerstätten ausreichend mit Treibstoff zu versorgen. Erschienen auf Resource Insights (16. September 2012).