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Originally Posted by Moneyguy1
It is being mined but not in large quantities. The up-front cost is high and the lead time to make it large scale is long. I do not think four years is enough.
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I think most current plans call for heating the shale up in place with geo-thermal or steam from nuclear power and pumping out the oil.
Strip mining and shipping or transporting to an on-site processing plant is far to expensive.
The link describes a 20 year patent on the process they want to use.