Peat is organic, and its better than the chemicals they are spraying all over the place to break up the oil....what is breaking up the oil going to do? NOTHING.
organic does not equal safe, after all the oil IS organic, and as bzterp pointed out, this does NOT REMOVE OIL it concentrates it and probably sinks it.... feel free to correct me if im wrong.... id rather have the oil on the surface where it can be removed, out of sight out of mind does NOT mean out of trouble
@peteyank Even fully sorbed with oil, the peat based absorbent becomes non-toxic. Toxicity tests were performed on *used* A+ Absorbent and the TCLP results are online on APlusAbsorbent website. Check out the "Is it Safe?" page and the TCLP results linked on the bottom of the "Resources" page.
@peteyank No, it doesn't sink the oil. It floats on top of the water, ready to be collected, and in the meantime, animals can swim through it without getting coated with oil.
@bzterp The oil is absorbed into the sorbent which converts it into an organic fertilizer. The used absorbent can be left behind as it is biodegradable, or collected for use as fertilizer or for burning as fuel.
@APlusAbsorbent you say the used absorbent is biodegradable and can be used as fertilizer.... how is this possible, if IT biodegrades how like bzterp first asked where does the OIL go? thats like soaking up a puddle of AIDS infected blood with a sponge then saying the blood soaked sponge is not harmfull. ok the product alone is probably safe, but it doesnt make the oil vanish into this air it binds to it, making assumably a toxic sludge of hydrocarbons and peat
@peteyank The used absorbent, that soaked up oil,can be used as fertilizer. There's grass growing in a jar of used A+ Absorbent in the WCCO video. The oil breaks down after it is absorbed.
This isn't just a physical mesh that soaks up liquids and leaks them back out indiscriminately, like a sponge; it is an organic mix with a peat base.
Aplusabsorbent was being tested in the Gulf of Mexico by some of the Jacque Cousteau's crew May 20, 2010, probablely on tidewaters.near New Orleans LA.
See the "aplusabsorbent Huckabee" You Tube White feather in oiled water test that Gov. Huckabee calls "Amazing" ...link to your friends
TheOileater 1 year ago
Does this stuff help fertilize the grass on golf courses? If so, maybe Obama would be interested in using it.
jamezbond78 1 year ago
You guys are awsome. i really hope BP wakes up and sees this is the real sulution. But can you produce ENOUGH absorbant to clean the spill?
scmini 1 year ago
@bozogillum612 If it is deployed in booms or pillows, then it would be easy to pull out of the water.
MNbenMN 1 year ago
@bozogillum612
Peat is organic, and its better than the chemicals they are spraying all over the place to break up the oil....what is breaking up the oil going to do? NOTHING.
SuperSPatrick 1 year ago
organic does not equal safe, after all the oil IS organic, and as bzterp pointed out, this does NOT REMOVE OIL it concentrates it and probably sinks it.... feel free to correct me if im wrong.... id rather have the oil on the surface where it can be removed, out of sight out of mind does NOT mean out of trouble
peteyank 1 year ago
@peteyank
The oil BELONGS at the bottom not the top. HELLO!!!! and if the greedy people who did this want it back, then the can drag the bottom for it.
SuperSPatrick 1 year ago
@peteyank Even fully sorbed with oil, the peat based absorbent becomes non-toxic. Toxicity tests were performed on *used* A+ Absorbent and the TCLP results are online on APlusAbsorbent website. Check out the "Is it Safe?" page and the TCLP results linked on the bottom of the "Resources" page.
MNbenMN 1 year ago
@peteyank No, it doesn't sink the oil. It floats on top of the water, ready to be collected, and in the meantime, animals can swim through it without getting coated with oil.
MNbenMN 1 year ago
What does it do to the oil? Where does the oil go???
bzterp 1 year ago
@bzterp The oil is absorbed into the sorbent which converts it into an organic fertilizer. The used absorbent can be left behind as it is biodegradable, or collected for use as fertilizer or for burning as fuel.
APlusAbsorbent 1 year ago 4
@APlusAbsorbent you say the used absorbent is biodegradable and can be used as fertilizer.... how is this possible, if IT biodegrades how like bzterp first asked where does the OIL go? thats like soaking up a puddle of AIDS infected blood with a sponge then saying the blood soaked sponge is not harmfull. ok the product alone is probably safe, but it doesnt make the oil vanish into this air it binds to it, making assumably a toxic sludge of hydrocarbons and peat
peteyank 1 year ago
@peteyank The used absorbent, that soaked up oil,can be used as fertilizer. There's grass growing in a jar of used A+ Absorbent in the WCCO video. The oil breaks down after it is absorbed.
This isn't just a physical mesh that soaks up liquids and leaks them back out indiscriminately, like a sponge; it is an organic mix with a peat base.
There are microbes that break oil down naturally.
MNbenMN 1 year ago
Aplusabsorbent was being tested in the Gulf of Mexico by some of the Jacque Cousteau's crew May 20, 2010, probablely on tidewaters.near New Orleans LA.
TheOileater 1 year ago
Being tested by Jacque Cousteau's crew in the Gulf of Mexico tidewaters Thursday 5/20/2010
TheOileater 1 year ago
whatever is is, it clearly works...
MickMan211 1 year ago 2
@MickMan211
Tihis is a Carex Reed Sedge peat based product that has been developed over the past 25 years.
TheOileater 1 year ago
Is that cowshit?
MickMan211 1 year ago