Comments on: How would you clean up the Gulf coast?

By: bburch88

bburch88 — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:44:28 +0000

We manufacture Uremel in Texas where it is used for oil absorption and bioremediation processes. It will also work to clean birds and other wildlife that have been contaminated with the oil. It is the most amazing oil absorbent I have ever seen. 432-296-0711.

By: RaymondoT

RaymondoT — Thu, 27 May 2010 03:51:10 +0000

What about magnets? Can’t they fill that metal pipe with magnets, or somehow use them to block the leak?

By: Miss.reisinger

Miss.reisinger — Mon, 24 May 2010 11:22:16 +0000

Use Dry Hay to start soaking the oil up!

By: bburch88

bburch88 — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:27:49 +0000

Use Uremel, it is a biodegradable absorbent that works amazingly while stimulating insitu bioremediation of oil.

By: elvislivz2

elvislivz2 — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:43:23 +0000

Tires – millions of old tires. I was blown away last year building a web site for a company. They said they converted old tires to a material that removes oil from water. I though – yea right! Then I watched the video they sent me to edit… simply amazing. A material that is thrown away all over the US, capable of removing oil from water and wildlife.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaZqP9WAk uY

By: jrfackrell

jrfackrell — Sun, 16 May 2010 06:48:38 +0000

I think have bp or the gov or someone thats got money,hire the people,the fisherman,all the people thats along the golf to get all the boats and clean up all that oil pay the people so much a gallon or bairlle I know oil is like 80.00 dollars barrell so if the boater got the oil and sold it back to the oil co that would make up for what thay lost and it would save the golf

By: tmartin

tmartin — Sun, 16 May 2010 00:17:29 +0000

Here is another proposal using baked peat moss to absorb the oil. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5aAerfcC tg

By: pebr90

pebr90 — Sat, 15 May 2010 03:29:02 +0000

From views being shown on video, the point where the oil comes out is self contained and flows out, potentially to/thru a plastic pipeline that can be collected by tankers at the other end. If a pipeline/bag to pipeline can be attached, does anything make sense? If should have been done a week ago – or more.

For the clean up, allowing the oil to flow with the tide into a barrier collection awning that prevents its reaching shore and allows it to collect upon a barrier covered shoreline makes more sense than diffusing it and allowing it to float downward to reach shellfish, etc., and filling the harbor with toxicities.

Because the oil floats, allowing it flow naturally to a collection device would be simpler than trying to divert the natural inclination of the oil to go wherever it is going.

Talk about it is not solving the problem; and that talk has been going on for nearly two weeks now. This problem doesn’t bode well for offshore oil well drilling, and in fact, it should cause the public to question the wisdom of safe space exploration as well. If mankind cannot control its environment, should it be messing with it at all?

By: lightsailorx

lightsailorx — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:39:45 +0000

IDEA: drill a new hole nearby to relieve the oil pressure, which may reduce the flow and then plug the leak by pumping down something that is liquid under atmospheric pressure but solid at one mile deep of water or something that would set. Any ideas on what that may be?

By: pdonohoe3

pdonohoe3 — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:04:59 +0000

nuke the wellhead – the Russians say that it works!