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FBaggins

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2. Or just the recognition that the oil is worth too much to burn for electricity

Reply to GliderGuider (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 9, 2014, 01:36 PM

Sep 2014

...certainly worth too much to burn it to desalinate water

Not when solar and nuclear make so much more sense

All of which is true whether the inevitable depletion of Ghawar occured seven years ago when TOD guys were insisting it had already happened... or is occuring now... or is still a couple decades off.

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An indirect admission that Ghawar is watering out???? nt GliderGuider Sep 2014 #1

Or just the recognition that the oil is worth too much to burn for electricity FBaggins Sep 2014 #2

I was around for the Ghawar-sleuthing on TOD GliderGuider Sep 2014 #3

It probably doesn't make sense in a world teetering on the brink of collapse. FBaggins Sep 2014 #4

Meh. Lots of fascinating stuff is dead wrong. GliderGuider Sep 2014 #5