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Mon May-10-10 04:25 PM
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A simple & great idea to help clean up the Gulf Coast oil mess |
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See the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5SxX2EntEo&feature=player_embeddedIt uses a very simple idea to help clean up the mess.
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Mon May-10-10 04:27 PM
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1. Watched that yesterday. |
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Good ol' boys makes sense. Listen to the shrimpers and farmers.
The good thing about this is no broken-up oil particles w/unknown substances making their way into the oysters, shrimp, brine, etc.
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Mon May-10-10 04:31 PM
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and make those bastards at BP pay for TONS of hay... it'll help US farmers.
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Mon May-10-10 04:34 PM
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4. and put the fishermen back to work spreading the hay (paid by BP) nt |
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Mon May-10-10 04:32 PM
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3. Very cool - and so much better than the mystery chemical BP is spraying now. nt |
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Mon May-10-10 04:46 PM
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here's the deal... TO BP, they don't want thick crude reaching the beacj because they KNOW that THAT is what will be on the 5PM news and THAT will be their PR nightmare. If their super chemical can dissolve the oil in the open water, less will reach the shore and everyone will say "Wow BP did a good job". But all that oil just gets blended into the open ocean water poisoning everything there.
Fact is... getting the oil to the shore and then picking it up with an absorbent like hay will be better for the environment.
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Mon May-10-10 04:34 PM
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Interesting to see if this gets any use or media attention.
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Mon May-10-10 04:35 PM
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6. Corporations rarely listen to those with |
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the most knowledge. This is a great idea.
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Mon May-10-10 04:39 PM
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7. BP has sent an order in for |
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Mon May-10-10 04:40 PM
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I've always said ask the people who actually work for a living. That's always where your best ideas come from.
Hay. Wouldn't have thunk it. Brilliant.
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Mon May-10-10 04:59 PM
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10. Doesn't follow the entire cycle of waste |
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Edited on Mon May-10-10 04:59 PM by Cronus Protagonist
Too many toxins to burn the crude. Can't put it in a landfill... what to do with tonnes of oily grass?
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MN TN
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Mon May-10-10 06:02 PM
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12. I understood them to say you could then use the hay for fuel |
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Tue May-11-10 05:51 AM
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or it's possible something like a cement plant could accept it as a partial substitute for coal. I don't see how it could be worse than what they're already burning.
:shrug:
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Mon May-10-10 05:36 PM
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11. Great, all we need is 800 million bales of hay |
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Tue May-11-10 05:54 AM
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that stuff grows everywhere and often
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Tue May-11-10 09:08 AM
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21. In qty's geared to feed existing livestock herds.... |
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... how are you going to feed them?
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MN TN
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Tue May-11-10 04:38 PM
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22. Farmers may have some surpluses |
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Maybe not enough but could help somewhat
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Tue May-11-10 04:59 PM
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23. I hope you're right... good for the Gulf, good for farmers |
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Mon May-10-10 06:59 PM
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Mon May-10-10 07:50 PM
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14. targeted beaches could be staked out with blankets of hay (or hair mats) |
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Edited on Mon May-10-10 07:57 PM by ashling
BEFORE landfall to minimize the landfall. I'm not talking loose hay, but flakes from square bales securely staked into the beach.
Of course, this would considerably raise the price of hay at least along the coast.
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Mon May-10-10 07:59 PM
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15. American Ingenuity at it's finest. |
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Wonder if we got enough hay?
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Mon May-10-10 08:14 PM
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16. hay. and also fur and hair |
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As of last Friday, Petco is collecting fur from all its grooming boutiques to be delivered to Alabama and made into fur boons. They hope to provide 2,000 pounds of fur per day.
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Mon May-10-10 09:38 PM
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Glad to see someone is taking some action
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Tue May-11-10 05:40 AM
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18. it's been proven to work |
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apparently in the Philippines, they were able to save their coastline by soaking up a 50,000 gallon spill by cutting off their hair and making booms with it. Of course, 50,000 gallons is miniscule compared to this.
As somebody posted on another thread, we need our entire country to cut off our hair and make booms with it...
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