To: crusty old prospector
I’d ask why it has to be water at all. Why not more oil of the same kind that is being extracted. Pump in hot oil, pump out more hot oil than you had.
35 posted on
11/13/2012 3:02:38 PM PST by
HiTech RedNeck
(How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
To: HiTech RedNeck
The retort process takes three barrels of water to make a barrel of oil.
http://m.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2005/RAND_MG414.sum.pdf
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