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Olle on July 18, 2008 - 10:30am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

R&D is not needed. Estonia get 75% of their electricity from burning shale:
http://www.estoniaenergy.com/

For now I guess coal is cheaper (in the US) and the environmental effects of burning shale is of course enormous, but it is easily done on an industrial scale.

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Datamunger on July 18, 2008 - 10:48am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Thanks for the info ( WT also).

That led to checking the EIA's country profile for Estonia. They are a net exporter of electricity (most from oil shale) and that business is quite profitable and a substantial source of government revenues.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/Baltic/Electricity.html

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