Gulf Oil Spill-Gutsy Solution Restores Environment in Just Six Weeks --Video

[Skidmore]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VfypUzx1tI


Help get the word out.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. Please, sir. Help videographically-challenged

Synopsis, please.</olivertwist>

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[Skidmore]

2. The video documents the successful and economical use of oil-eating microbes

to remove oil from the sea surface. The request is to disseminate this and to call for its use in the BP fiasco. The microbes consume the oil, produce a nontoxic byproduct which can be consumed by sealife, and disappear when their food source is cleaned from the sea.

[eleny]

4. Here's some info on this bioremediation process at Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioremediation

[Nuclear Unicorn]

5. K&R

Can they do anything about my hair?

[obxhead]

3. I heard a long segment on NPR about this with

several 'experts' on oil eating microbes.

the basic story they told was that we have never successfully introduced new microbes into an environment successfully to combat oil. They have however successfully fertilized microbes natural to the area to speed their reproduction and therefore the speed with which they eat the oil. They had success with small controlled experiments, but on large scale spills the foreign microbes always die off.

I'll go see if I can hunt down a transcript of the segment for you.

Edit to add:

I believe this was the segment. No time to listen atm to verify though.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127240657