alt Hacker NewsMix a spoon of oil in a couple of glasses of water, add salt, put it a few minutes in a blender, and tell me how easy it is to retrieve the oil.
Now scale that to millions of barrels of oil every day.
Mix a spoon of oil in a couple of glasses of water, add salt, put it a few minutes in a blender, and tell me how easy it is to retrieve the oil.
Now scale that to millions of barrels of oil every day.
isn't that how we extract oilsands? by mixing it with hot water.