| CW Roberts employees demonstrate brilliant defense against the oil spill in the Gulf. 
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Saturday, May 08, 2010
Cheap as Hay!
8 comments:
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Anonymous said...
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That stuff makes up a lot of lawns here in the south. I wonder if grass clippings would also work?
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5/8/10, 11:16 AM
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TomR said...
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These two "good ole' boys" have common more sense than the entire federal govt.(and the MSM)
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5/8/10, 11:17 AM
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Anonymous said...
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I'm gonna call Chicken Phil, and have him fire up the baler.
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5/8/10, 11:56 AM
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Anonymous said...
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There's no way this really works. These two obviously didn't go to Harvard or Yale and aren't diverse enough to have any real wisdom. That'll be the attitude of Odumbo and friends, wait and see.
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5/8/10, 12:39 PM
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AndyJ said...
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And what happened to the "oil eating bacteria" that were the top of the news some time ago?
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5/8/10, 1:04 PM
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JMcD said...
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When I first saw the headline above and the picture of the southern guys with the straw I thought,"Holy Moly...they've found a use for Kudzu".
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5/8/10, 2:10 PM
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Donald Sensing said...
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I hate to be the downer here, but there are many oil absorbents far more efficient, by volume and weight, than hay. And many of them absorb only oil, not the water also. Hay also absorbs water.
You can bet that if spreading absorbents was the answer, it would have been done long ago.
The problem with using an absorbent of any kind on a large-scale, uncontained spill is that it basically doubles (at least) the recovery problem. Because even after the hay has absorbed all the oil, the oil is still in the water. And now you have to get both the hay and the oil out and haul them somewhere.
I think these two well-intentioned gentlemen enormously underestimate the quantity of hay that would be required. And it would have to be hauled out to the sea and then back from the sea.
As I indicated, in smaller-scale, contained oil spills on water, absorbents are used. But on the scale of this spill, on the open ocean, we have no effective countermeasure. Burning was the best option, but wave action made that ineffective. That's why efforts now are concentrated on stopping the spill flow rather than cleaning up the millions of gallons that are already in the water. -
5/8/10, 9:02 PM
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Donald Sensing said...
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What the heck, I went ahead and published detailed reasons why this will not work on my blog.site:
http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2010/05/hay-for-oil-spill-is-no-plan.html -
5/9/10, 11:12 AM
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