Drilling for Crude Goes Solar (solar thermal used to cook out crude oil)

[NickB79]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203405504576602891728012656.html

"COALINGA, Calif.—Chevron Corp. is enlisting the sun to help drain the sludge-like dregs of crude from an aging oil field.

Chevron is keen to extract this thick crude by heating it with steam. Historically, oil companies have used natural gas to create the energy for the steam. Here in Coalinga, the energy comes from a vast stretch of solar panels.

This marriage of clean energy technology with one of the dirtiest forms of oil extraction says a lot about the state of the global energy industry."


Well, isn't that innovative and disgusting!

[canoeist52]

1. Some serious irony going on there.

[Javaman]

2. It's as if they are purposely using irony to put a thumb in the eye of the

environmentalists.

this reminds me of the Simpson's episode where mr. burns builds the "little lisa" recycling plant, but in his always bizarre sense of reality, mr. burns uses the plastic ring things from beer six packs to create a giant net to hall in disgusting amounts of every variety of sea life to create a "paste" that can be used in all sorts of things.

Mr. Burns: But Lisa, I thought recycling was good?

[Nihil]

3. I had to hover over your link there ...

... just to prove to myself that you hadn't been creative with
HTML and actually linked to the Onion (or suchlike) whilst
pretending to be quoting from the WSJ ...

That is just so f-d up that I don't know where to begin with it ...

:wtf: