“The roughly one-millimeter-thick sheets will ...”
That’s from the linked article.
I am new to Zero Hedge but I used to be employed as a marine biologist so I don’t buy the ‘nothing to see here, move along’ attitude re gulf. I saw disaster threads I disagreed with and drew the air of them with cross posts or identifying invalid conspiracy sites - but I don’t think everything is ok fine and I know the gov doesn’t want us to think, talk about it - just move along.
“Roughly” 1mm isn’t “1 mil.” Again, they’re idiots. 1mm is about 39 mils. The TEPCO outline doesn’t call out the thickness they’re proposing, and the news outlets covering this have shown themselves to be worse than useless. I seriously doubt that the media has the proposed thickness of the polyester sheet correct.
re: the Gulf.
It isn’t fine, OK, move along. Using the dispersants was probably a really bad idea, brought about by the desire to not see crude wash up on beaches. Making crude miscible with water probably resulted in crude that sank into deep, colder water, and that will retard the microbial action for years. Someone should be doing research into this so we don’t repeat mistakes. One of the bigger mistakes was allowing an administration staffed with academics to get their nose into this.
But it still isn’t the end of the world. Oil comes from the earth, not Alpha Centauri. It isn’t some alien substance, new and unknown to the earth.
Will there be a mess there for a time to come? Yes. Will it eventually return to something appearing normal? Yes. We used to have quite the amount of oil simply wash up on shorelines near Santa Barbara from oil seeps off-shore - these seeps finally dried up (mostly) when man started extracting oil from that oilfield and reducing the underground pressure.