Show Ene Energy gy expert down on onil oil il shale Energy expert Dr Joseph H H. says the astronomical costs for oil shale recovery and the problem of waste disposal make the alternative energy source unfeasible CONTRACTS I 1 have in the research laboratories of the major oil companies express that economic recovery of oil from oil shale is very far off if ever said in a letter to Colorado Governor Richard Lamm ch chairman irman of the Solar Energy Commission of the National Academy of Sciences said it would cost about 1 billion for an shale oil-shale recovery plant that would extract only to barrels of oil per day Six hundred million tons of shale would have to be processed each year to produce the one million barrels a day of shale oil sought by the government government government govern govern- ment in efforts to become energy self YOUR PRESENT NT stand of partnership with the federal government in oil shale development should continue told Governor Lamm And probably considerable federal money will be spent in oil shale development in spite of the high risk factors and probable low chances of suc suc- cess who also is a Johns Johns- Manville Products Corporation executive said coal and nuclear fuel will have to be relied on in inthe inthe inthe the next ten years to augment oil and natural gas and energy sources lie He said solar energy couldn't be expected to make a abig abig abig big contribution to solving the nations nation's energy problem until the latter latler part of the century |