You beat me to it.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 06/15/2010 12:22:51 PM PDT by Windflier
The Texas Land Office and Texas Water Commission successfully used ‘oil eating’ microbes to clean up large oil spills in just weeks.
Microbes hunt down and eat the toxic oil and leave only a biodegradable waste that is non-toxic to humans and marine life. Marshland and beaches were pristine again in just weeks — not years...
Do we really want to introduce this microbe directly into an environment which has an as yet uncontrollable open tap? Once the leak is sealed off, then I can see this microbe’s usefullness. Not before.
I'll give you a hint, these microbes were not manufactured in a lab.
Beware Pseudomonas Putida, you’re going to have to trust me on this one ...
Kind of like the costal and inland marshes that are now threatened?
It's not just queer looking, it's stupid.
They should have done this from day one. But NOW the millions of gallons of Corexit will kill the microbes.
I saw this same solution offered a couple of weeks ago but in a political atmosphere where Bobby Jindal can’t even get the jerk in the white house to autorize funds to construct sand dikes there’s no chance in hell something that could really help solve the problem will ever be approved.
Fore!
The problem is/was, no one could say whether it helped or not.
I must admit that I'm very surprised that people aren't responding more positively to this information. I expected quite a different reaction.
Well, the testimony and footage in the video claims that it worked, and that it restored the oil damaged wetlands where it was applied in six weeks.
I say yes, absolutely. It's a natural solution that won't do further harm to the ecosystem, and will also tend to multiply itself through wholly natural processes. It dies off when all the oil is consumed.
It's as close to a perfect solution as anything I've seen.
You beat me to it.
It dies off when all the oil is consumed. . . introducing this microbe into an open supply which can contaminate any tributary sources is a big mistake. Seal the source first.
1. Dispersants are not toxic, especially at the dosages being fed. The ones they are using have a health rating of 1/1 (you can check the MSDS).
2. No dispersants don't eliminate the oil, them make the oil "available" to the oleophilic bacteria that NATURALLY live in the Gulf. You don't have to "add" them. So there is no need to "suggest" bioremediation, that what the dispersants, (those toxic chemicals! /s) are already doing ... NATURALLY!
May I suggest you take about 20 minutes and learn more about dispersants, I've laid it all out for folks who "would like to know." For a quick (20 minute) lesson on this go to
The Patriot's Flag - Dipsersants and the Piper
You are dancing to the "left-handed Piper's" tune when you start making these kinds of statements that are (1) Not true and (2) misleading. Every aspect of this whole spill catastrophe has two sides, emotion and logic, action and reaction, Facts and Tales. Knowing the difference is what will get us through this.
But then how will Barry demagogue this?
NO trust
“Jersey douchebags are particularly at risk.”
Why are they douchebags? Have they committed any crimes? Are they taking drugs? They are actors on a reality show.
You want to call someone a douchebag, call the person who conceived this POS program one.
Palin/Snookie 2012
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