Gulf Oil Spill: Solution Restores Environment in Just Six Weeks: known as Bioremediation
MORE BIOREMEDIATION INFO CLICK HERE reuploaded from Federaljacktube www.youtube.com Quote from Sciencemag.org They (oil workers) have a potential ally: microbes that have evolved an ability to break down oil that seeps from the ocean bottom. It gets devoured by a variety of bacteria, which eat it by chemically transforming its compounds into useful cellular constituents. “If it wasn’t for the natural ability of bacteria to eat oil we would all be knee-deep in the stuff,” says bioremediation expert Ken Lee of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Nova Scotia, Canada. So could bugs help cleanse the gulf? A number of companies have tried to create bacteria that could break down oil on demand, but Lee and colleague Albert Venosa of the Environmental Protection Agency say that experiments have shown that novel bacteria, even if they show promise in the lab, cannot compete with bacteria already living on beaches and marshes. Experiments have shown that adding nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium to the beaches can speed up the ability of natural bacteria to break down oil. “What would’ve taken 5 or 6 years to accomplish can occur in a single summer,” says Lee. While adding such fertilizers has worked in small scale coastal experiments in which oil was purposefully spread on wetlands, experts don’t know of examples from an actual spill. The challenge with wetland marshes is that the toxicity of the oil can kill plants before the microbes have a chance to get to …
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You know, I’m pretty sure BP admitted it was a catastrophe, and not really trying to hide it.
Side note, this miracle solution of microbes, I assure you it has already been thought of, and there is a logical explanation for why they aren’t using it. After all, why wouldn’t they? This is a PR nightmare for them.
hahahaha nothing eats oil.
Cause it takes time and it wastes the oil and they lose money. What they wanna do is wait and wait and wait and pay only when they are forced to.
Microbes… you’re right… I’ve heard of this before – some documentary. Good Idea!
Send this to the spill clean up idea department that Obama has set up. Document that you did and then start calling news agancies. Try and stay away from fox news as they are paid off by the oil companys to minimize negative effects off oil on the gulf. If what you say is true, hopefully a news agency can help….
It just started coming in, It will increase Daily, and come for 40 to 50 days after leak is stoped. Everything in the Gulf, and every Bird on the beach is DEAD
Seems odd they wouldn’t already be using it! If this stuff really works that is.
Could it be that swine flu and vaccines have not killed off enough of our overpopulated planet and this is just another chance ?
Nature provides antidotes; for every nettle there is a dock leaf.
Straw DOES work to clean up oil. so why the reluctance to use the solutions ?
Am I being cynical in my old age ? (kindly replies only please.)
why don’t you contact the celebrities that are activists, they would most certainly get the word out. Woody Harrelson is a start, Leonardo DiCaprio is another. There are tons of them and they have power of the people and money behind them.