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There are lots of ways. Let's discount "ignore it until it goes away on its own" and "wait until it washes up on a beach and can be scrubbed off by hand."
Five of the ways left are:
- Suck up the oil after you contain it with floating oil booms
- Absorb free oil with absorbent pillows or fibers then clean them up
- Emulsify it into the water column
- Use an endless belt of absorbent or hydrophobic material to draw the oil up into a scraper
- Burn it off with wicking ceramic balls
Answer:
Invite Kevin Kosner's scientist brother to place all his equipment in areas not already being busily cleaned up by BP. One centrifuge-machine can clean up to 200,000 gallons of sea water per day. As long as he is not hampering on-going operations why not "turn him loose" and let him "show us what his technology can do"?
Answer
- Notify local authorities as necessary.
- Contain the spill using the appropriate equipment (i. e. dams etc. on land, booms on water)
- Use absorbent material to soak up oil.
- Dispose of this material appropriately.
- Absorbent materials include Oil-Dry, SpillFix, spill kits, various pads, etc.
- Consider eco-friendly oil absorbent products you can find online that are much more effective than clay-based absorbents and don't have related health risks.
- Remove contaminated soil for disposal (on land)
- Replace removed soil with clean material (on land)
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What are negative impacts that humans have on oil spills?
The only negative impact that humans have on oil spills is if we refuse to clean it up properly.
What materials clean oil spills?
You can use a lot of things to clean up oil spills but the best thing to clean up an oil spill is to use a sponge.
How do you clean up real oil spill From the ocean?
You can use Human hair to help clean up Oil Spills
Can bacteria be used to clean oil spills and gasoline leaks?
yes because it clean up everything
How can bacteria be used to clean up an oil spills?
they break down the oil into microscopic pieces and eat them
What happens when people do not clean up oil spills?
It pollutes the area and destroys the ecosystem
What is a way that biostimulation can be used?
To clean up oil spills using natural bacteria
True or false bacteria are used to clean up oil spills and gasoline leaks?
true
What do oil spills do to the economy?
they make us spend the money that our economy gained to clean it up.
Humans have spent much time and money developing ways to try to clean up oil spills all over the world how do you think Chief Seattle would respond to this effort?
He would ask "What is oil?"
Humans use bacteria to?
clean up oil spills, mine minerals from the ground and synthisize drugs
What are some consequences of oil spills?
some consequences to oil spills are that some animals die. some animals can also just get really damaged. when there is an oil spill it is really hard to clean up. it takes a long time.
