And we move things from being dirt to ore by developing the technology to extract.
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But in 2007, their partner wanted to speculate on Southern Tier land as news of a vast natural gas reserve grew and new technology to extract it was developed.
This does not mean that big firms will run out of oil, but rather that they will have to look for it in more obscure and daunting places, and use innovative technology to extract it probably from smaller fields.
The technology use to extract the gas from shale is advancing daily.
Despite the early financial support from wealthy investors and the backing of well-known space-exploration researchers, Planetary Resources faces many technical questions and uncertainties about costs and the technology required to extract materials from asteroids.
They had been looking for oil and lacked the technology back then to extract gas from waters more than 3000 feet deep, or pipe it ashore for conversion to LNG.
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Google also said that it has new 3-D imaging and rendering technology, which will extract more dat from the higher-resolution aerial photographs captured by a fleet of planes working exclusively on behalf of Google.
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The quantity of oil you can find in the first place, and then extract, is entirely a function of technology.
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It means the amount that we have examined, drilled, tested, weighed, can extract at current prices and with current technology and still make a profit doing so.
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For the first time in several generations, it has become clear that abundant domestic energy resources are within our reach, and that we have the technology to responsibly and safely extract it.
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So, what we're trying to do is come up with new technology that will allow us to extract more oil from the same area that we're extracting it now.
The fossil industry revolves around applying technology to tapping resources that are much harder to extract.
He notes that demand for their services and technology will rise as oil becomes harder to find and extract.
The school's technology department may also design and build an apple press to extract the juice.
They work, they invest, they put their heads to the task, they apply technology, and pretty soon they'll discover how to extract oil profitably from oil sand.
Terahertz light - which lies between infrared light like that used by remote controls and the microwaves in the appliance of the same name - has become popular in scanning technology at airports and museums' back rooms because it can extract information without risk of damage.
We get Amit's point, our devices have come nowhere near to maxing out the intelligence or utility that we can extract from them, but this just seems like another step toward over-reliance on technology.
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