Proven Israeli Technology for Cleaning Oil Spills

ArutzSheva IsraelNationalNews.com ^ | August 5, 2010 | Baruch Gordon

[hamboy]

It’s taken millions of dollars to cap it, and it could take billions more to clean it up. BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is perhaps the environmental catastrophe of the century. But Tel Aviv University has a solution that may help remedy the remaining oil residue through a natural, biological process.

Prof. Eugene Rosenberg and Prof. Eliora Ron of Tel Aviv University’s (TAU) Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology are using naturally occurring oil-munching bacteria, grown at the TAU lab, to clean the hard-to-reach oil pockets that occur when oil mixes with sand and organic matter on beaches and forms a thin layer on the Gulf’s precious waterways.

“It’s worked to clean up an oil spill on the coast of Haifa, Israel, so we’ve already got good evidence it could work in Florida too,” says Prof. Ron. Details of their decades of research appear in The Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology, published this year by Springer Verlag.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I envision a nice elderly lady licking her thumb and saying, “You gotta little schmutz there. Let me clean it up.”

Now THAT is a time-proven method!

[marron]

BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is perhaps the environmental catastrophe of the century

Of course, its early yet.

[ArrogantBustard]

BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is perhaps the environmental catastrophe of the century.

ROFL!

Considering that the Century is all of 10 years old, that's not saying much. If he means "of the past 100 years" ... he's FOS.

[hamboy]

BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is perhaps the environmental catastrophe of the century?

ArutzSheva was just quoting the our left-wing media!

[thackney]

They better hurry if they want to use it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2565351/posts

[ExpatCanuck]

Can you see this government using anything from Israel, without first jumping through hoops to find something from any third world, preferably Musilm, country?

[barb-tex]

Might be NASA can find a Muzzie solution. We already knew about Bacteria, that where the oil went to. The One fixed it.
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