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1. kulahan · 1789604805 · focus · HN ↗

   I’m certain engineers have considered this, but it doesn’t seem answered anywhere: why not just pump the original brine back in to move around the oil? Wouldn’t that at least prevent eroding the storage unit and causing it to fail?

   Unrelated: dang, he wasn’t underselling this being a pretty elegant solution! I never would’ve thought of it, for sure.

   1. samus · 1789628586 · focus · HN ↗

      Yes, that's what they do. The brine is stored in huge pools next to the extraction site.

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