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Logistically.......since oil is lighter than water and it mostly floats one could suck up the surface and maybe the 2 feet below the surface and then pass it through the sponge. As the demonstration shows, the oil is held in the sponge and the water passed through. The oil which is now a solid can be taken away and processed or disposed of.
This would take a large amount of vessels equipped to vacuum skim the surface and as well cargo ships or barges set up to remove the oil soaked sponges.
If nothing else, as many as can be deployed and set to work would surely aid the cleanup effort.
In related news, the tar balls which have washed up in the Florida Keys have been found NOT to be from the leaking rig pipe.
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This would take a large amount of vessels equipped to vacuum skim the surface and as well cargo ships or barges set up to remove the oil soaked sponges.
If nothing else, as many as can be deployed and set to work would surely aid the cleanup effort.
In related news, the tar balls which have washed up in the Florida Keys have been found NOT to be from the leaking rig pipe.
Click for the story
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