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Cloth Successfully Separates Oil From Gulf Water
Chinobi writes "Di Gao, an assistant professor at the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, has developed a method of separating oil from water within just seconds using a cotton cloth coated in a chemical polymer that makes it both hydrophilic (it bonds with the hydrogen atoms in water) and oleophobic (oil-repelling), making it absolutely perfect for blocking oil and letting water pass through. Gao tested his filter successfully on Gulf Oil water and oil and has an impressive video to demonstrate the results." This is a laboratory demonstration; the technology hasn't been tested at scale.
I rememebr when Florida banned (or re-banned) easy offshore drilling to protect the local environment. How's that working for you, Florida?
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
What a load of crap. The last great gusher disaster was in in the gulf in Mexican waters and was in much shallower water. Biggest problem, in shallow water even minor oil spills will immediately end up on shore.
The biggest load is that environmentalist forced the oil companies, put guns to their heads, enslaved the drilling crews and forced them to drill. The only thing driving the drilling companies was greed. The failures were also driven by greed driven shortcuts not by depth of water, purely by depth of B$.
Mining of resources can be summed up in one statement "robbing the next generation to feed the greed of this generation". There should be a clamp down on non renewable resource exploitation, of rationing out resources to last over the long term and of ensuring not only that we don't leave future generations with no non-renewable resources but that we also don't leave them with excessive pollution resulting of disgusting work practices motivated by unadulterated greed.
Truth is if environmentalists had their way, most of the exploitative corporate executives would spend the rest of their lives in mental asylums, and based upon what is happening in the world today they would be right.
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Sheesh, next you'll deny the economic crisis was actually caused by the government forcing poor old mortgage companies to extend loans to money-grubbing poor people!