I know I seem like a one note wonder as of late. Admittedly I'm obsessed with the Oil in the Gulf. The corexit their using is in some ways worse than the crude itself. The only real purpose is for PR. The oil is still there but much of it settles on the sea floor. It just breaks up the oil into droplets. Same technology for over 30 years. I knew there were other answers.. Here one...
Do you think we could at least try it..........
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This would be great at the beginning of an oil spill, but here's the thing I've found from on the job experience of doing spill and hazmat clean up. After a certain time, about a week or two after the spill the oil or hydraulic fluid no longer floats. It becomes aged and forms a plume. Then you have to suck out all the liquid (sea water and oil) and run it through a press or centrifuge.
As I have said several times it would be better to use a supertanker with vacuum and suck up all the plumes then treat it on shore later.
The thing is they have there shills out there saying the tankers are so big that they wouldn't be able to move.I can't imagine that. BPs main concern is their stock holders. If you get a chance see what Reich had to say on Olbermans show last night.
Makes sense to me. If these machines can't be used now, I have to wonder why we don't have some around in case shit happens. Ahhh Planning..answered my own question.
I'm going to call that company is Sweden and get the dirt on these things.
Tim, I like the idea of using them in the areas where oil is concentrated on the surface, but that's only the tip of the iceberg.
TC
It's just another tool in the arsenal.
Beats the hell out of corexit which just breaks crude up and it settles on the Ocean floor.
I had no idea we already had that kind of technology. Our government and the oil industry (same thing) probably doesn't want to use it because it was invented in one of them commie European countries.
Tom
The thing is this was developed in the Netherlands. What A time I'm having trying to call these people.
I want more info. Demeur has doubts about it. I say what the hell try it. Like it would be a bad thing...We should have a bunch of these things as you said just in case. You not speak swedish do you;)
Tom
I was able to send them an email with my request. Hope they don't think all Americans write like me..;)
Thanx for the video clip, havent seen it .... and I know there are other solution's to make this ride smoother, I just dont have them, but am alway's open to idea's ... and so should t5hese folk's be, which is difficult when your thinking is strickly driven by "profit" and "expense".
Have a good un .....
RC
I wrote this company in the Netherlands and hope they write me back with more info. Talking with them didn't work out so good. Sometimes I forget not everybody speaks English.
later
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