Oil resource development : hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, to discuss opportunities to advance technology that will facilitate environmentally friendly development of oil shale and oil sands resources, and to address legislative and administrative actions necessary to provide incentives for industry investment, as well as explore concerns and experiences of other governments and organizations and the interests of industry, April 12, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (iii, 73 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Oil-shales - United States
Oil sands - United States Oil-shale industry - Technological innovations - United States Oil sands industry - Technological innovations - United States Fuel switching - Technological innovations - United States Energy development - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
Oil-shales
Oil industries Energy development Nature Technology & engineering |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Oil resource development |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910689818303321 |
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Oil shale development in the United States : prospects and policy issues / / James T. Bartis ... [et al.] |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Santa Monica, Calif., : RAND, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (89 p.) |
Disciplina | 622/.3383/0973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BartisJames T. <1945-> |
Soggetto topico |
Oil-shales - United States
Oil-shale industry - United States |
ISBN |
9786612282881
1-282-28288-3 0-8330-4100-2 1-60129-025-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Preface; Figures and Table; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One - Introduction; About This Study; Contents of This Report; Chapter Two - The U.S. Oil Shale Resource Base; Oil Shale Resources in Place; Recoverable Resources in the Green River Formation; Resource Ownership; Chapter Three - Oil Shale Technologies; Mining and Surface Retorting; In-Situ Retorting; Thermally Conductive In-Situ Conversion; Timeline for Oil Shale Development; Chapter Four - The Strategic Significance of Oil Shale; Direct Benefits of Domestic Oil Shale Production
Reductions in the World Price of OilEnhanced National Security; Confounding or Inconclusive Arguments; Summary; Chapter Five - Critical Policy Issues for Oil Shale Development; Environmental and Social Impacts; Constraints to Strategically Significant Production; Chapter Six - The Development Path for Oil Shale; Business as Usual; Toward Industrial Development; Appendix - Cost Estimation Methodology and Assumptions; Bibliography |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910220134803321 |
Santa Monica, Calif., : RAND, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A primer on alternative transportation fuels / / Timothy Coffey |
Autore | Coffey Timothy <1941-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC : , : Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 71 pages) : color illustrations |
Collana | Defense & technology papers |
Soggetto topico |
Fuel switching - United States
Hydrogen as fuel Liquid fuels Biomass energy - United States Synthetic fuels - United States Oil-shales - United States Armed Forces - Fuel Biomass energy Fuel switching Oil-shales Synthetic fuels |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Mission requirements that drive system considerations -- Review of engine technologies -- Selecting the power plant -- The role of hydrogen -- Liquid transportation fuels from reforming and gasification -- Enzymatic approach to producing fuels from biomass -- Fuels from biomass oils -- Synthetic fuel from atmospheric carbon dioxide -- Exploitation of oil shale -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910703699903321 |
Coffey Timothy <1941-> | ||
Washington, DC : , : Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Supporting American jobs and the economy through expanded energy production : challenges and opportunities of unconventional resources technology : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session, Thursday, May 10, 2012 |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington : , : U.S. Government Printing Office, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (iv, 330 pages) : illustrations |
Soggetto topico |
Oil-shales - United States
Oil-shale industry - Technological innovations - United States Energy development - United States |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Supporting American jobs and the economy through expanded energy production |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910704790003321 |
Washington : , : U.S. Government Printing Office, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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