solution for Mexico Gulf Oil Spill Clean-up

A piece of chemically treated cotton cloth is able to separate crude oil from sea water (both from Mexico Gulf) completely within seconds by using gravity alone. It can be developed into various effective tools for cleaning up the oil spill in Mexico Gulf. The treated cloth allows water to path through but not oil. The novel surface chemical treatment method is developed by University of Pittsburgh. Contact gaod@pitt.edu for details.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Mexico
• Gulf
• Oil
• Spill
• Clean
• Up

[DumbDuck44]

it sucks that Billy Mays has passed on, he'd know what to do.

[moviewacha]

Some one replace BP with this guy.At least someone is thinking about cleaning the gulf of Mexico.

[murphypaul9712]

Great insight here. Thank you for that information! Keep your videos coming...



[DiamondBabyy10]

but how would this be effective? You can't take the whole ocean and drain the oil out of it.

[signupsucksass]

all we need to do is hold up the ocean and pour it through a cloth the size of cuba.

[Metaledge100]

That's cool. Too bad mother nature already cleared up the mess on it's own or they could have tried this out.

Hahahahahaha.

[mangp]

soy sauce

[tHaTaSiAnGuY2010]

you see, where you were wrong is that it didn't completlely seperate the oil and sea water. There were still strands of oil I saw. So, you take of 90 or 95% of the oil in the container. What about the rest?

[lordnaddy]

So ur saying that were gonna use a giant ass filter to clean this shit up? I doubt you thought this through. If this were possible, we would have done it by now.

[ThePeanutbutterz]

and u r going to do that with the whole ocean? thingy???

[moosepupp92]

BILLY MAYS HERE WITH THE CHEMICALLY TREATED COTTON CLOTH. SEE HOW THE WATER GOES RIGHT THROUGH, LEAVING OILY WATER AS A THING OF THE PAST

[tracy55318]

How toxic are the chemicals used to treat the cotton cloth?