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Heard the figure of 233 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Is this true or not? If true, how would this oil be extracted? Shale needs fracking and fracking needs water. Coober Pedy is one if the driest places on earth.
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Pipe water in, pipe oil out. Probably should use different pipes for each though.Comment
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So it's still years away from extraction.Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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The infographic at the end suggests to me it's not true. Look at the shape of all the other countries. Australia is clearly the odd one out
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As an aside, have you any idea what Berz was talking about?Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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GOD! What a reach. My hat's off to you for interpreting that one.
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you just need to pipe water up this road for thousands of miles...
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I haven't read anything but this: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/s...-1226560401043Originally posted by pchang View Post
The 233 billion barrels is probably total reservoir size instead of recoverable amounts and in really tight formation, the type fracking is used on, getting even 10%-15% out is hard. Still, that would still amount to 20-30 billion barrels. Oh, and as Horse has pointed out they'd need millions and millions of acre feet of water in the middle of the desert.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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that wouldn't deter Discovery channel. I can see it now - Desert water truckersAny views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
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Coober Pedy has between 3.5 billion and 233 billion barrels of oil
That's a hell of a range.John Brown did nothing wrong.Comment
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It just means they haven't even begun to delineate the reservoir.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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The Australian desert is much more suitable for solarthermic, photoelectric or eolic energy production. I wonder what's more likely: the water pipeline or some investment in the future of the country
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It's only 540km up the Stuart Highway from Port Augusta to Coober Pedy.Originally posted by Alexander's Horse View Postyou just need to pipe water up this road for thousands of miles...
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