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Oil recovery

| March 16, 2012 6:00 AM

You pump carbon dioxide into a played-out oil field, the CO2 will stay underground while a lot more oil will flow to the surface. This technology has been boosting oil production for decades - long before anyone was concerned with global warming.

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