After giving this issue much serious thought, it occurs that these bacteria are simply too small. What is needed are bacteria on steroids, ie, beefy guys the size of VW beetles. Then you would see the oil disappear faster than it can emerge from the well-head. What say we expose some of these bacteria to some good old-fashioned radioactivity, just like in those sci-fi movies, and then watch them go to work. There could be a problem though if they can't discern between a yummy glob of oil and say, a tasty seakayak, or heaven forbid, a jet-ski. Brad > You guys seem to be missing the obvious. Simply gather up all the oil and > place it in old NASA fuel storage tanks. In the proper anaerobic > environment, the bacteria will do their work and all your problems will be > solved. > > It would save a *lot* of time and effort if they ran a pipe from the > wellhead to the storage tanks, thus bypassing all that mucking about in > boats (as Toad of Toad Hall would say). > > Doesn't BP have anybody with some common sense on their staff? Why do I > have to do all the heavy lifting? > Darryl *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jun 21 2010 - 15:38:49 PDT
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