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Brain -> Cousteau Says Technology Can Clean Gulf Oil Now - Video (6/17/2010 11:04:42 PM)
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Finally some good news, time for them to get a move on with this, pronto.
Cousteau Says Technology Can Clean Gulf Oil Now - Video
CNBC.com | June 17, 2010 | 06:52 PM EDT
Machines that separate oil from water—even allowing the oil to be refined later—can be on-site in the Gulf of Mexico within days, Jean-Michel Cousteau, president and founder of the
Ocean Futures Society, told CBNC Thursday.
Cousteau, the son of legendary sea explorer and ecologist, Jacques Cousteau, said there are 24 to 26 units that are ready to go and in the region. (Watch his comments in detail in the video below.)
The units are mobile water treatment plants, which use a nonchemical oxidation process, Michael Vinick, chairman of Ecosphere Technology, told cnbc.com later on Thursday. Vinick said the units can be placed on barges and taken out to sea. Each unit can process one million gallons of water daily, added the chairman.
Vinick said the units are especially useful in the Gulf spill situation because they don't use chemicals, they break up hydrocarbons and they can handle high volume.
Vinick added that the oxygenation process brings much-needed oxygen to plant life in the marshes, which are robbed of it when they are coated with crude oil. The process of adding oxygen also revives sea life.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/37752139
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