In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:55:28 -0500: Hi, [snip] >lot of it comes out mixed with the natural gas and oil. Nowadays they >force oil out by pumping water into wells, and it takes a lot of >energy to separate the water from the oil. [snip] It shouldn't take any energy. You let the mixture flow into a long narrow reservoir, and gravity separates the two. At the other end, you remove the oil from the surface, and the water from the bottom. Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
