And with a 80% chance of raining on everyone's parade... "Everyone has a brilliant idea that will not work. And this is one of them": http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2010/05/hay-for-oil-spill-is-no-plan.html ------------------- "They tried this before, it soaks up the oil then sinks to the bottom of the ocean, where it kills everything in sight, and is more difficult to clean up than the original oil spill. Animals can get away from a slick on the surface, they can't get away from a poisoned ocean floor. That is why they no longer use this option." DEP's officials said "that Walton County’s testing of the absorbent qualities of hay is 'not real world.'" The DEP said that the oil "would be too weathered to be soaked up by hay." Experts describe weathered oil as oil that has been exposed to the elements for long enough to have become soaked with water and pick up sediments or other debris. “Hay will cause more problems than it will solve,” [State Sen. Don] Gaetz said ... “It will create more cleanup and pickup because the oil is of a different consistency.” http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2010/05/another-reason-hay-wont-work-to-remove.html ------------------------- "It is horribly inefficient. Hay/straw quickly absorbs water and this greatly hampers its ability to absorb oil. The sorbent "flags" on the pom-pons are hydrophobic (repels water) and "oil-o-philic" (attracts/absorbs oil). When you toss sorbent pads, pillows, boom or pom-pons into the water, they sit there until oil hits them (or the sun breaks down their properties... which takes several days or more). Once oil hits them, it sticks and you just have to wait until they are fully engorged - then you take them to a disposal site. Hay hasn't been used since the 1970's... and if a contractor or responsible party (person that spilled the oil) used or suggested to use it, we would step in and refuse to allow it." http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?p=1217795 ----------------- On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Jon Page <jonpage at comcast.net> wrote: > This one gives credit to good old common sense. > > *Oil Slick Problem Solved* > > > The U.S. has all the brain power in the world to solve problems, but it > only takes two good ole boys from the South to come up with a real, workable > solution. This is great! > > http://www.wimp.com/solutionoil/ > > -- > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100527/36fcbd93/attachment.htm>
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