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Why Oil Shale Extraction Is A Very Bad Idea.

Dear EarthTalk: Are the United States’ vast oil shale resources a potential source of energy?
Oil shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock that contains significant amounts of kerogen, a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds that can be converted into synthetic liquid fuel similar to oil, or into shale gas similar to petroleum-derived natural gas. Geologists [...]

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