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Solar heat for oil wells 用于油井的太阳热 Mirrors in glasshouses can be used to heat stones 玻璃房里的镜子.....可以用来加热石头 THERE is a lot of energy from ancient sunshine stored in the oil that sits below the deserts ofOman. 在Oman的沙漠下面埋藏着石油, 这些石油中储存着来自远古太阳光的丰富能量。 There is also a lot of sunshine hitting those deserts today. 在今天, 也还是有大量的太阳光照射在这篇沙漠上。 A new wrinkle to an established technology should allow some of that current sunshine tobe employed to get at more of the ancient stuff. 一项已经成熟的科技的新应用能够使用现在的太阳光来得到更多的古老东西。 Using heat-in the form of steam-to liberate disobligingly thick and gunky oil which wouldotherwise stay in the ground is nothing new. 利用热--以蒸汽的形式--来释放埋在地下的油腻的稠油已经被人们熟知。 Such enhanced-recovery techniques date back to the 1950s and 40% of California s oilproduction now depends on steaming subterranean rocks in this way. 这种强化开采技术可以追溯到20世纪50年代, 现在加利福尼亚40%的石油产出都是依靠这种方式来蒸馏地下岩石。 | 
