From my talks with HO about this issue, we're looking at a multi-step process to get from here--basically nowhere--to there, not knowing what that last step looks like in terms of production or date vis-a-vis these "oil shales" (kerogen--immature hydrocarbons--in a marl rock geological context).

The point is this: each incremental step potentially (and almost certainly) involves new technical problems to be solved and therefore, this is simply not a good energy solution in any time frame we care about at this point. By the way, when people talk about "Swedes" here, it is my understanding that they should really be talking about the Baltic states (Estonians, Latvians...). Perhaps somebody will clarify this for me but that's what my research shows.