Re: [Paddlewise] [PaddleWise] Oil spills

From: Tord <tord_at_mindless.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:37:54 -0400
Carey wrote:

> Google "oil eating bacteria" there's lots of info. I don't want to 
post
links or the spam grabber may not permit the e-mail thru in a timely
fashion. <

Remember a long time ago when NASA had problems with the kerosene
they use in their rockets to the moon - it just disappeared, tons of 
it! Someone stole
it from their vast tanks, and after having ruled out human thieves, 
they eventually
associated it with the gunk they found in the bottom of the tanks: 
bacteria!

So this bacteria, whose name I've forgotten completely - maybe NASAii?!,
thrived in an environment consisting of just kerosene: no light, no 
air, nothing!

Nowadays they add a biocide to lower the losses of kerosene, and It 
seems it
still works!

Tord
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