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The Hope Mobile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 12:24 AM Original message |
Has anyone else heard of the oil-eating microbes? |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 12:35 AM Response to Original message |
1. You mean like benzoyl peroxide? |
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The Hope Mobile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 02:29 AM Response to Reply #1 |
12. No, like this |
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Lost-in-FL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
2. In what medium they consume oil? |
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The Hope Mobile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 02:22 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Its been done in the gulf before and it worked beautfiully -here is the link |
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johnaries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 12:43 AM Response to Original message |
3. There are already oil-eating microbes in the ocean that are |
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The Hope Mobile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 02:25 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. These are not toxic - they're natural |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 04:50 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Cyanide is natural. |
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The Hope Mobile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 09:33 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. That's helpful. I'm sure you understood what I meant. |
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mbperrin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
4. When I was at A&M in the summer of 1970, I did an internship with |
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The Hope Mobile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 02:27 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Here is the link to the one I saw- go past the beginning |
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Goldstein1984 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 12:56 AM Response to Original message |
5. Oil-eating microbes (bacteria) |
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The Hope Mobile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 02:26 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. check this out |
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Goldstein1984 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 01:50 AM Response to Reply #9 |
22. I wish bioremediation was that effective |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 01:04 AM Response to Original message |
6. NPR had a story a few weeks back about how microbes basically |
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The Hope Mobile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 02:29 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. In the video they were mass produced and introduced to the gulf by Texas state and it worked |
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Dogmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 04:42 AM Response to Original message |
13. Oil-eating microbes are common |
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uberblonde (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 05:36 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. They also cause an overgrowth of algae. |
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The Hope Mobile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 09:34 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Did you watch the video?? nt |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 09:42 AM Response to Original message |
18. Gulf already has large numbers of oil eating microbes. |
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The Hope Mobile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 03:58 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. They've done studies on it and they applied it successfully in the gulf in the past |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 04:07 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. However never in this scale. |
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MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
20. I heard of them in the 1970's... |
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