# Oil Shale: Rock That Burns

Produced by the University of Colorado for the Energy Sources

Discusses the utilization of oil shale as an energy source. Although there are an estimated 1.8 trillion barrels of fuel to be had from oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West, no retorting process has as yet demonstrated commercial viability, and the ecological damage resulting from mining the shale is still undetermined. A New Beginning series

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1975
- By: University of Colorado
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/oilshalerockthatburns)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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