CNN: Oil-eating microbes for the Gulf

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CNN's John Zarrella talks to microbiologists about the potency of oil-eating microbes against the oil in the Gulf.

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  • the bacteria can cause low oxygen zones that can also affect the sea life

  • Someone should develop a way to adapt the oil-eating microbes to open waters. In contrast to toxic chemical dispersants used by BP, I believe that these microbes would not be harmful to all kinds of sea-life biodiversity. We humans need to develop natural ways to dissolve or recycle all kinds of environmental pollution, as well as reduce all kinds of polluting emissions, and develop benign/eco-friendly industrial "green" chemicals that are similar to biological chemicals. See Bioneers.org

  • I'd like to know which ones he tested on open water. They work better than COREXIT if they aren't DNA! Ha! You think "they" don't know what I'm talking about? Yea, RIGHT!

  • I thought the microbes were so over-abundant that they were sucking the oxygen out of the water. Hay, straw, and daily cleaning would do wonders.

  • BPwill not pay!

  • It has been talked about the micro in the Valdez disasters. But look at the result, there are still oill found underneath the sand and rocks.

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