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Gulf Oil Spill - Gutsy Solution Restores Environment in Just Six Weeks
VodPod.com ^ | May 31, 2010 | Texas Land Office and Texas Water Commission

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...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cleanup; oilspill
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To: Windflier

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.


21 posted on 06/15/2010 12:51:41 PM PDT by wtd
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To: ArrogantBustard

http://antiduckface.com/


22 posted on 06/15/2010 1:00:23 PM PDT by walford (http://natural-law-natural-religion.blogspot.com/)
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To: wtd
It's estimated that 5000 barrels of oil leak out of the gulf daily. How do you think this oil disappears without a trace?

I'll give you a hint, these microbes were not manufactured in a lab.

23 posted on 06/15/2010 1:01:09 PM PDT by zek157
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To: Windflier

Beware Pseudomonas Putida, you’re going to have to trust me on this one ...


24 posted on 06/15/2010 1:03:03 PM PDT by Scythian
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To: Sacajaweau
We've used it up here but it is in more or less contained areas....

Kind of like the costal and inland marshes that are now threatened?

25 posted on 06/15/2010 1:04:19 PM PDT by norton
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To: walford
OK, so I just googled "duckface" ...

It's not just queer looking, it's stupid.

26 posted on 06/15/2010 1:05:57 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Windflier

They should have done this from day one. But NOW the millions of gallons of Corexit will kill the microbes.


27 posted on 06/15/2010 1:09:08 PM PDT by mojitojoe (banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Windflier

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!


28 posted on 06/15/2010 1:11:34 PM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: Windflier
This was done 20 years ago when Bill Clements was gov. Twice.

The problem is/was, no one could say whether it helped or not.

Here is a 1990 article about the spraying.

29 posted on 06/15/2010 1:11:35 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: dalebert
doesnt matter...no one will listen.

I must admit that I'm very surprised that people aren't responding more positively to this information. I expected quite a different reaction.

30 posted on 06/15/2010 1:14:06 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Ben Ficklin
This was done 20 years ago when Bill Clements was gov. Twice. The problem is/was, no one could say whether it helped or not.

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.

31 posted on 06/15/2010 1:16:03 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: wtd
Do we really want to introduce this microbe directly into an environment which has an as yet uncontrollable open tap?

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.

32 posted on 06/15/2010 1:19:30 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: mojitojoe
They should have done this from day one. But NOW the millions of gallons of Corexit will kill the microbes.

You beat me to it.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

33 posted on 06/15/2010 1:34:46 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: The Comedian
Prolly part of the criminal plan.
34 posted on 06/15/2010 1:41:00 PM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: Windflier

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.


35 posted on 06/15/2010 1:55:24 PM PDT by wtd
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To: Windflier
Dispersants are toxic to the environment, and don't actually eliminate the oil. Bio-remediation is a technology which has been long proven to completely eliminate the damage of oil spills, and needs to be deployed in the Gulf immediately.

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.

36 posted on 06/15/2010 2:09:19 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (http://www.thepatriotsflag.com - The Patriot's Flag)
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To: Windflier

But then how will Barry demagogue this?


37 posted on 06/15/2010 2:32:16 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ( Two-state solution: A bad idea whose time has gone.)
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To: texasredhead8712; TexKat; ValerieTexas; AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; ...

38 posted on 06/15/2010 3:22:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Windflier

NO trust


39 posted on 06/15/2010 5:04:51 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: walford

“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


40 posted on 06/15/2010 9:51:34 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (You know it's bad when "Miss me yet" billboards with Carter's picture are displayed,)
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