Re:America's Biggest Asphalt Plant Is Shutting
by vonmoltke on Sunday February 05, 2017 @10:44PM
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> That isn't really all that much: compare to the 280-350kWh it takes to produce a single barrel of crude from the Alberta tar sands[2].
The "tar sands" are a naturally-occurring asphalt deposit. To make asphalt cement out of it basically just requires digging it up and separating the sand from the bitumen. That's a very small part of the energy required to make synthetic crude.
The "tar sands" are a naturally-occurring asphalt deposit. To make asphalt cement out of it basically just requires digging it up and separating the sand from the bitumen. That's a very small part of the energy required to make synthetic crude.