Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20111219:17:18:00
A cutting-edge science project, nearly 8,000 mirrors create a giant deem of heat focused on a single solar receiver. >> in a receiver we have water that runs up through tubes, we boil the water and make steam and we push it across the street to the oil reservoir and down the reservoir to heat up the crude oil. >> reporter: across the street is one of california's oldest oil fields. after 100 years all that is left is a super-thick subject born crude, nearly impossible to pump out without steam. >> we are placing steam at high pressure a thousand 500 feet down. through holes and pipe it enters ...