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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

But, that would overturn the Illegal Alien’s agenda to take control of yet another industry. They don’t want it cleaned up until BP goes under, or is owned by the Fed’s.


41 posted on 06/15/2010 9:55:50 PM PDT by LiteKeeper ("It's the peoples' seat!")
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To: SunkenCiv; Windflier; SoothingDave; neverdem; Lazamataz; Xenalyte; sionnsar; patton; cogitator
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.

Ah - But my concern is that a “minor” mutation - which we know “never” happens with microbes in the wild - lets the micro start eating petroleum-based products, not just free-standing oil.

Just try to not imagining all the possible foods: Rubber tires, asphalt, petroleum-based clothes, rubber hoses, o-rings, seals, paint, fan bets, tie-downs and nylon hoses, tarps, glue, sealants, gasoline, ......

Might be all sorts of profitable “end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it" novels in that story.

42 posted on 06/15/2010 11:01:28 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Thanks Robert


43 posted on 06/15/2010 11:28:20 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JMOh-cul6M


44 posted on 06/16/2010 5:30:44 AM PDT by walford (http://natural-law-natural-religion.blogspot.com/)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Apologies; I hadn’t looked at that vid for a while and forgot how much cursing was in it.

The point I was making is that not everyone from Jersey is a douchebag and not every douchebag is from Jersey.


45 posted on 06/16/2010 6:45:39 AM PDT by walford (http://natural-law-natural-religion.blogspot.com/)
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To: AGreatPer

Well, that’s the current forecast, I do believe.


46 posted on 06/16/2010 6:47:44 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (Ey, Paolo! uh-Clem just broke the Presideng...)
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To: Scythian
Beware Pseudomonas Putida, you’re going to have to trust me on this one ...

From Wikipedia: Use of P. putida is preferable to some other Pseudomonas species capable of such degradation as it is a safe strain of bacteria, unlike P. aeruginosa for example, which is an opportunistic human pathogen.

Just posting what is printed there. The comment is not authoritatively cited, so I would be very glad for you to cite an authority saying otherwise, if the statement is in fact wrong.

47 posted on 06/16/2010 6:52:36 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (Ey, Paolo! uh-Clem just broke the Presideng...)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

How about the one already written?

The Andromeda Strain.


48 posted on 06/16/2010 6:55:39 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (Ey, Paolo! uh-Clem just broke the Presideng...)
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To: wtd
introducing this microbe into an open supply which can contaminate any tributary sources is a big mistake.

Per the video, this was done twice before. I haven't seen any information that indicates there was any subsequent problems in the ecosystems where the microbes were released.

49 posted on 06/16/2010 10:25:37 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag
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!

Good data. Thanks for that.

I favor an "all of the above" approach to attacking this catastrophe. I'll support any and all technologies that are workable and effective against this thing.

50 posted on 06/16/2010 10:29:51 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Lorenzo would be toast, for one thing.


51 posted on 06/16/2010 7:03:45 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: Robert A. Cook, PE

This is what happened in the original “Andromeda Strain”. The alien microbe evolved from something that caused catastrophic clotting into something that ate state-of-the-art polymers.


52 posted on 06/17/2010 9:41:01 PM PDT by cogitator
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To: cogitator

Rumors on the engineering sites I review are that the entire field could be larger than the Saudi Arabian fields. Combined. More than 15,000 psi at the bottom, pushing up against sea pressure. That’s why the “cheap” idea of not using the heavy sealing “mud” and weighted concrete was so wrong, so short-sighted. Net upward force inside the outer 21 inch pipe is about 850 tons.

Got to relieve the pressure with the relief wells, or they expect no success in lowering the flow rate.


53 posted on 06/18/2010 7:44:35 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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