Hows this for a fix? Its two for one.?

Question

WE could extract the oil from the shale in Colorado, and ship the depleted shale to New Orleans to raise the ground level so there would be no more flooding.

Answer 1

Doesn't work. The sea level rise you'd get from the energy used to process the shale and the CO2 emitted when the oil is burned would raise the sea level more than you'd raise the ground in New Orleans. That's not even counting the energy used to get the residue to New Orleans and place it.

The real fix is to reduce use of all fossil fuels to reduce the sea level rise, and to rebuild New Orleans somewhere higher, since step one won't totally eliminate the sea level rise, just make it manageable in places now above sea level.

Answer 2

Bob is correct. Extracting oil from shale takes a significant amount of energy (and thus creates a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions). Then the oil is burned, creating yet more greenhouse gas emissions. Then you're using energy to transport shale from Colorado to New Orleans, creating yet more greenhouse gas emissions. You would temporarily raise the ground level in NO, until sea levels rise above the new level.

Answer 3

Sounds like a good solution until some lib decides that we are moving materials from the Colorado River basin to the Mississippi river basin. they probably think that is a no-no I have about a million yards of eastern Colorado sand I could ship them if it weren"t for the Army Corps of Engineers.