The link below appeared recently in Naked Capitalism on
2nd July. It suggests that all the
cheery information we have been getting on all that fuel for the future may not
be as soundly based as many would like to think. As ever there are some technical problems which
the optimists feel are not major issues.
It is a longish piece but worth reading if you are
interested in these matters.
The proposition is that to move these tar sands requires
them to be turned into a chemical slurry, heated to a high level and then
pumped long distances under high pressure.
If this type of movement is proposed for the UK it will
be only days before either the government or Boris Johnson come up with the
idea to put such pipelines along the HST2 to beef up the economic case for the
project.
Perhaps the main storage areas, if the stuff makes it
through the pipelines, might be included in the proposed new hub airport to be
used as aviation fuel for updated versions of the Airbus and the
Dreamliner.
It should all go with a bang.
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