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Well this ticks all the boxes. I'm from Alberta, worked in oil and gas there for a while and was the Chief Engineer for a Google Lunar Xprize team (one of the r
by johnwalkr 7y ago
Well this ticks all the boxes. I'm from Alberta, worked in oil and gas there for a while and was the Chief Engineer for a Google Lunar Xprize team (one of the relatively successful ones that is still around). Now still working there in aerospace, and some of our customers are coincidentally working with us as they are diversifying away from oil and gas.
Tar Sands is one of the most expensive and damaging ways to produce oil, yet Alberta is still clinging on and propping up the industry, even a decade after the Middle East players, with much more abundant resources and cheaper production, started to diversify.
A sensible plan is to shift energy production to renewables and save oil to make plastic later. Maybe develop oil sands technology at a slow pace
- lawnchair_larry 7y agoWhat other renewable form of energy could they develop and export? People who suggest that they could just put up solar panels (do they even make sense that far north?) and turbines don’t seem to get that they aren’t extracting the oil for themselves, they are selling it.