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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.
With cloth that we don't have, because it isn't being mass produced. That's why it's too late.
Write your representatives! Repeal the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics!
Obviously (if tests prove successful) BP will be buying this stuff by the boat-load. By successfully separating the oil to a (most likely) usable state they can recoup all that oil they lost into that darned ocean.
That damned water is contaminating our profits!
There are plenty of methods out there that work in open water. There are practically zero methods that work in marshland.
Just sayin'.
If you're not satisfied with the work of others maybe you should get out there and make it happen. I'm just sayin'
Maybe the ones that caused the spill should be the ones "making it happen."
Slashdot is supposed to be a refuge for the intelligent geek in the vast wasteland of the web (supposed to be, I say!). Of course, geeks like to play with language in new and innovative ways, but mispelling lose or repeating memes doesn't cut it.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
You're absolutely correct. So, who is really responsible for this spill? The environmentalists. If not for their lack of common sense we would not be drilling 5000' below the surface.
Yes, BP screwed up. But, if not for lawsuits tying up all wells in much more accessible locations Deepwater Horizon would not even have been drilled, tapped, and put into production.
"while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." de Tocqueville
It figures a guy from Pittsburgh would create a way to separate oil. I bet he figured this out while eating fries from "The O" or perhaps one of the dozens of fine greasy eating establishments throughout the city.
Mmmm.. I'm craving Primanti Brothers right now.
lxtoc_1 was simply a matter of the mexican national oil company ignoring something that almost exclusively effected the Texas coast.
And how does that differ from how BP acted? Do the world a favor, find a loaded gun, put in in your mouth, turn off the safety, and pull the trigger.
lxtoc_1 was simply a matter of the mexican national oil company ignoring something that almost exclusively effected the Texas coast.
And how does that differ from how BP acted? Do the world a favor, find a loaded gun, put in in your mouth, turn off the safety, and pull the trigger.
Great! Then you must be in favor of drilling in places like ANWR then, since not drilling at all would mean economic collapse and many deaths unless there's a practical & economical substitute *right now*, along with all it's necessary infrastructure in place.
By the way, very classy of you with the gun bit. I stand in awe of your intellect and ability to debate a topic civilly and persuade with the brilliance of your logic.
Bravo, Sir, Bra-vo!
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.