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Idea to send:	Topic Alternative energy synthetic oil production Content Synthetic oil production has always been more expensive than fossil fuel extraction, because the energy used to drive the synthesis has come from burning the fossil fuel that is also the carbon source for the synthetic fuel. However, if you have a cheap source of energy that can be used to synthesize the fuel, you could create synthetic fuel that costs the sam as, or even less than, traditional fossil fuels. For example, in Oklahoma both windmills and hyrdopower have the problem that they generate large amounts of energy at times when energy demand is low. We also have large amounts of low grade coal and agricultural waste, which are cheap sources of carbon. We could build synthetic oil points that use the electricity from either wind or hydropower off-peak generation, to create oil from carbon and steam. -Brad Jensen, Tulsa