Using Nuclear Power to Get Gas

Bill Reinert, who helped design Toyota's Prius hybrid, hovers in a helicopter 1,000 feet over Fort McMurray, Alberta.

On this clear November morning, he's craning for a look at one of the world's largest petroleum reserves where there's not an oil well in sight.

Instead, in a two-mile-wide pit below, trucks head to refineries with loads of sand weighing more than Boeing 747s. Yellow flames shoot skyward as 900-degree heat liquefies any embedded petroleum.

Via Cryptogon:

As bad as this seems, this is just a preview.

I could be wrong, but my guess is that asymmetric operations against the energy companies will begin if the insane decision is made to go with nuclear power to provide the heat necessary to recover the oil from these deposits.

There are a lot of people who are one notch away from throwing their bodies onto the gears of the machine. It’s only a fraction of fraction of one percent, but that’s all you need to cause billions of dollars worth of damage in an asymmetric battle space.

It’s tough to imagine a more insane use of technology than using nuclear power to eat the earth in order to keep spewing carbon into the air, but here we are.