Re: Oil Shale?




Pooh Bear wrote:
dezakin@xxxxxxx wrote:

Alex Terrell wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nimitz_(CVN-68)

The Nimitz, which makes the Titanic look like a dinghy, has 194MW of
nuclear propulsion.

For tar sands, some work has been done in using nulcear power and GWs
are needed for any descent amount.

I wonder if you could use cogeneration of heat and electricity to make
the economics come out rosier.

The 'waste' heat is quite low temperature. That's the problem there.

I think he meant the other way, use the primary heat for tar sand
extraction and the cogeneration to recover the waste heat from that
process.

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