#3 2010-05-14 14:35:22
Taint wrote:
Even if it worked, it wouldn't address the entire problem, it would appear.
I remember from earlier spills off the California coast that some of the oil sinks and rolls up like logs on the bottom. If it then washes up on a beach, at least it is more like thick tar and can be picked up. I like the hay or straw option for surface oil. Hell, nothing that BP has done is working.
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#4 2010-05-28 06:48:02
According to Rachel, every proposed solution is just recycled from a past oil platform blowout that dragged on for nine months.
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#5 2010-05-28 07:04:50
phreddy wrote:
Taint wrote:
Even if it worked, it wouldn't address the entire problem, it would appear.
I remember from earlier spills off the California coast that some of the oil sinks and rolls up like logs on the bottom. If it then washes up on a beach, at least it is more like thick tar and can be picked up. I like the hay or straw option for surface oil. Hell, nothing that BP has done is working.
I was out at Dana Point (south of LA) a couple of years ago, and the beach had millions of tar balls, often shaped like flat stones, lying on top of and mixed in with the sand. I walked on the beach for an hour or so, and then had to go back to my hotel to try to wash the stench of petroleum off my feet. It was a creepy.
Surely the hay method should be tried. It would be an elegantly simple solution. It could also be the start of another agricultural subsidy that likely would never die! Of course, if the government, big bad government, could make BP pay for it, better still.
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