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...topsoil is removed, the shovels scoop the oily mix into the trucks, which transport it to hoppers for crushing. Hot water is injected to create a slurry that separates the raw oil from sand, clay and other particles. Then 2,500-h.p. pumps, the world's largest, push the viscous oil sands through pipes to a plant on-site that converts it to crude oil. From there, it goes by pipeline to refineries in the U.S. The output of the Alberta operations is expected soon to reach 1 million bbl. a day, surpassing U.S. crude production on Alaska's North...
...family dinners were held beneath the Eiffel Tower. Knowing how to live apparently means knowing that nothing will last and everything has happened before. But by the end of last week, as the old stone houses lost their ancient stores of cool and the night air grew as viscous as the afternoon's, even the Parisians began to twitch. Retired undertakers were called back to work to help handle the casualties. Like bloodhounds, we all darted about in search of cool...
Other factors affect the ice sheet's stability. One of the most important is the balance between the rate at which the ice sheet is growing (because of snowfall) and the rate at which it is shrinking. An ice sheet is, in essence, a viscous plateau, and under the burden of its own weight it is ever so slowly sliding downhill. Because of variations in underlying terrain, however, its slide is not uniform. In the Ross Sea sector, for example, ice is most efficiently conveyed out of the ice sheet's interior by ice streams, which spill onto the Ross...
...never been salvaged at this depth before. Some experts believe that trying to recover the oil would be more dangerous than just leaving it. Since the frigid water will thicken the already highly viscous fuel oil to the consistency of tar, it is unlikely to move anywhere soon. No plans have thus been announced--at least not yet--to try to recover the tanker's 18 million gallons of oil. If the contents leak to the surface, the spill will be twice the size of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster
...Costa da Morte (Death Coast), sits a time bomb. The Prestige lies in shame, 145 nautical miles off the northwestern state of Galicia, and its remaining cargo - at least 55,000 tons of thick fuel oil - could detonate in days, weeks or months into a great black tide of viscous goo, unleashing one of the worst marine disasters ever. But if King Neptune is kind, the sunken tanker may just sleep, its cargo solidified, having done all the dirty work it will ever do. Its work so far has been dastardly. Some 400 km of ecologically sensitive Galician shoreline, home...