Last year, as efforts to clean up the 4.9 million barrels of oil that spewed from BP’s damaged well floundered, it became painfully obvious how little CLEANUP technology had improved since the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska some 21 years before. Two decades had passed and the world was using the same oil spill recovery technology — boom and skimmers — with little success.
Enter the Oil Cleanup X-Prize Foundation with a new challenge with over 300 entries from around the world short listed to 10 finalists given a year to optimize their controlled closed test-tank solution and technology results in awards of $1,400,000 in prizes....
http://greygooseadventures.blogspot.com/2011/10/illinois-team-elastec-wins-oil-spill.html
M/V RENA runs aground 12 miles offshore on a New Zealand reef with 1800 tons of fuel oils and starts to spill oil into the sea... officials delay response... oil reaches pristine beaches and cause even more environmental damage...
http://greygooseadventures.blogspot.com/2011/10/mv-rena-aground-leaking-tons-of-oil-off.html
WITH ALL THE TECHNOLOGY AND HYPERBOLA OF OIL SPILL CLEANUP...
THERE IS NO DEMONSTRATED OIL SPILL CLEANUP TECHNOLOGY THAT WORKS IN REAL WORLD CONDITIONS.
NO ONE CAME FORWARD TO HELP THE M/V RENA ? TO ROUGH SEA CONDITIONS ?
BE PREPARED FOR THE NEXT OIL SPILL ?
DRILL AND SPILL IN THE ICY ARCTIC ?
SHOW ME THAT YOU CAN CLEANUP OIL SPILLS - NOT SPRAY DANGEROUS CHEMICALS TO SINK IT AND HIDE IT !
UNTIL YOU CAN SHOW ACCEPTABLE PROOF OF CONCEPT YOU (all petroleum producers) SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO POST SUBSTANTIAL BONDS AND PAY 20% OF THEIR PROFITS FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW OIL SPILL CLEANUP AND PREVENTION TECHNOLOGIES...
OTHER IDEAS ARE WELCOME - PLEASE POST COMMENTS HERE !
Why doesn't CLEANUP standards (rate/minute etc) be imposed on all issued permits requiring anyone who produces or handles petroleum products to demonstrate (Ohmsett tank - http://www.ohmsett.com/) that they can actually cleanup a certain volume of petroleum product. This would be a positive step forward to responsible CLEANUP performance and training.
ReplyDeleteMuch to obvious of a needed requirement - without real world cleanup technology - how could anyone cleanup a spill? Couldn't do it. Hence, they would all fail to demonstrate actual cleanup capability and not be permitted to produce and handle petro products. I think the public is accepting oil spills as a necessary evil of their thurst for petro energy. It is a sad day for the environment and our children who inherit this mess and challenge.
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