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Canada sending floating boom, scientists to Gulf


Environmental | 206809 hits | Jun 06 2:26 pm | Posted by: wildrosegirl
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Canada is sending half of its ocean boom to the Gulf of Mexico to help U.S. authorities deal with the massive oil cleanup effort.

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  1. by avatar GreenTiger
    Mon Jun 07, 2010 6:03 am
    Thank you Canada.

  2. by avatar KorbenDeck
    Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:33 pm
    3,000m is half of Canada's stock? WTF thats crap

  3. by avatar Proculation
    Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:39 pm
    I heard an interview with an entrepreneur of Quebec who patented a kind of polymer to absorb hydrocarbons. It's like snow flakes and it can absorb about 100 times its weight.

    The guy tried to contact BP and Homeland Security and others organisms. He had no response.

    It was tried here when a gas truck fell on his side and there was gasoline going into a river. It cleared the water in less then a day.

  4. by avatar wildrosegirl
    Mon Jun 07, 2010 10:59 pm
    "Proculation" said
    I heard an interview with an entrepreneur of Quebec who patented a kind of polymer to absorb hydrocarbons. It's like snow flakes and it can absorb about 100 times its weight.

    The guy tried to contact BP and Homeland Security and others organisms. He had no response.

    It was tried here when a gas truck fell on his side and there was gasoline going into a river. It cleared the water in less then a day.

    Yes, but that would make perfect sense so they'll never go for it.

  5. by avatar Freakinoldguy
    Mon Jun 07, 2010 11:49 pm
    "Proculation" said
    I heard an interview with an entrepreneur of Quebec who patented a kind of polymer to absorb hydrocarbons. It's like snow flakes and it can absorb about 100 times its weight.

    The guy tried to contact BP and Homeland Security and others organisms. He had no response.

    It was tried here when a gas truck fell on his side and there was gasoline going into a river. It cleared the water in less then a day.



    This sounds a little more logical than the hay idea, but the problem with hay was that they couldn't figure out how to get rid of the oil soaked product.

    Since that's been the problem with alot of these other oil absorbent products how is this one different?

  6. by avatar Proculation
    Tue Jun 08, 2010 12:08 am
    "Freakinoldguy" said
    I heard an interview with an entrepreneur of Quebec who patented a kind of polymer to absorb hydrocarbons. It's like snow flakes and it can absorb about 100 times its weight.

    The guy tried to contact BP and Homeland Security and others organisms. He had no response.

    It was tried here when a gas truck fell on his side and there was gasoline going into a river. It cleared the water in less then a day.



    This sounds a little more logical than the hay idea, but the problem with hay was that they couldn't figure out how to get rid of the oil soaked product.

    Since that's been the problem with alot of these other oil absorbent products how is this one different?
    According to the interview, the "snow flakes" stay on the top of the water and they gather together.

    The guy says it's very easy after that to 'get them'. What's good too is that with another process, you can recover the oil.

  7. by avatar Freakinoldguy
    Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:04 am
    "Proculation" said
    I heard an interview with an entrepreneur of Quebec who patented a kind of polymer to absorb hydrocarbons. It's like snow flakes and it can absorb about 100 times its weight.

    The guy tried to contact BP and Homeland Security and others organisms. He had no response.

    It was tried here when a gas truck fell on his side and there was gasoline going into a river. It cleared the water in less then a day.



    This sounds a little more logical than the hay idea, but the problem with hay was that they couldn't figure out how to get rid of the oil soaked product.

    Since that's been the problem with alot of these other oil absorbent products how is this one different?
    According to the interview, the "snow flakes" stay on the top of the water and they gather together.

    The guy says it's very easy after that to 'get them'. What's good too is that with another process, you can recover the oil.

    Thanks.

    Like I said it seemed to make more sense than using hay to soak up the oil. I guess BP would like the part that the oil is recoverable.

  8. by avatar Proculation
    Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:09 am
    BP doesnt want to close that well. They will loose billions. So they are trying to reduce the damages until they have another rig to pumb the oil.

  9. by avatar wildrosegirl
    Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:56 am
    "Freakinoldguy" said
    I heard an interview with an entrepreneur of Quebec who patented a kind of polymer to absorb hydrocarbons. It's like snow flakes and it can absorb about 100 times its weight.

    The guy tried to contact BP and Homeland Security and others organisms. He had no response.

    It was tried here when a gas truck fell on his side and there was gasoline going into a river. It cleared the water in less then a day.



    This sounds a little more logical than the hay idea, but the problem with hay was that they couldn't figure out how to get rid of the oil soaked product.

    Since that's been the problem with alot of these other oil absorbent products how is this one different?

    Gator. It still blows my mind that no one in the industry seems to know of this stuff.



    This is exactly what it's for.

  10. by Khar
    Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:09 am
    "Proculation" said
    BP doesnt want to close that well. They will loose billions. So they are trying to reduce the damages until they have another rig to pumb the oil.


    BP close that well -- there are thousands of pounds per square inch force coming out of that well, and we are working at depths where it is incredibly difficult to even control the depth of something. They are losing billions by having it .

    Trust me, if BP wanted to save money, manpower and save face, they would have capped it loooooong ago if it were up to them, but it's not -- it simply cannot be capped, the pressure is to powerful for any free floating or moveable apparatus to successfully contain the vast amounts of pressure being exerted at the very opening of that head.

    As for the other methods, I believe the problem is that we are beginning to talk about bioremediation. This is actually a very serious problem which occurred during the last oil spill is that the bacteria just don't die when you are done -- they keep going, and going, and going, and when the creator of these materials say that it targets hydrocarbons, my first thought is "okay... so when does it stop? What else does it consume? What if the bacteria migrate as chemoautotrophs will do into the actual oil source? Can we remove them afterwards? Will we create another problem altogether by introducing these bacteria into this region?"



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