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Old 10-24-2008, 09:46 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by grolsch View Post
In Canada we have the Alberta oilsands. We've known for 30+ years that as soon as technology costs and oil
prices met on a graph somewhere we'd be in the money.
What's interesting though, is that a majority of our electricity comes from hydro. (It's something ike 60% hydro vs. 20% coal.) Compared to the U.S., that's an astounding difference. We have a lot of running water up here. Maybe the U.S. could make better use of theirs?
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