Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed a soap-like additive for CO2that turns it into a viable solvent for commercial-scale enhanced oil recovery to increase the amount of crude oil that can be extracted from oil fields. "Carbon dioxide is useful in enhanced oil recovery as it is able to flow through the pores in the rock much more easily than water," said Professor Julian Eastoe from the University of Bristol. This new additive will help thicken the CO2, which is vital to recovering oil, and making this process much more efficient. One of the major benefits to this new additive is that it will increase the life of our oil reserves. Giving us much more time to find other oil fields, and research alternative fuels.
This is a great idea but i feel that we should be focusing all of our efforts on finding sources of green energy that are good alternatives to oil rather than trying to extend the amount of time we can use oil because while like you said it will give us more time to research alternative fuels, in the mean time we are destroying the planet by using it
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