A simple & great idea to help clean up the Gulf Coast oil mess

[MN TN]

See the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5SxX2EntEo&feature=player_embedded

It uses a very simple idea to help clean up the mess.

[Dappleganger]

1. Watched that yesterday.

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.

[greencharlie]

2. wouldn't hurt...

and make those bastards at BP pay for TONS of hay... it'll help US farmers.

[greencharlie]

4. and put the fishermen back to work spreading the hay (paid by BP) nt

[polichick]

3. Very cool - and so much better than the mystery chemical BP is spraying now. nt

[greencharlie]

9. yup

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.

[PufPuf23]

5. Raw genius.

Interesting to see if this gets any use or media attention.

[malaise]

6. Corporations rarely listen to those with

the most knowledge. This is a great idea.

[Are_grits_groceries]

7. BP has sent an order in for

a giant ShamWow.

[Dr Morbius]

8. It's a great idea!

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.

[Cronus Protagonist]

10. Doesn't follow the entire cycle of waste

Too many toxins to burn the crude. Can't put it in a landfill... what to do with tonnes of oily grass?

[MN TN]

12. I understood them to say you could then use the hay for fuel

[rucky]

19. Pyrolysis may work.

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:

[Scuba]

11. Great, all we need is 800 million bales of hay

[rucky]

20. I think it's doable.

that stuff grows everywhere and often

[Scuba]

21. In qty's geared to feed existing livestock herds....

... how are you going to feed them?

[MN TN]

22. Farmers may have some surpluses

Maybe not enough but could help somewhat

[Scuba]

23. I hope you're right... good for the Gulf, good for farmers

[Dr Morbius]

13. K&R. (nt)

[ashling]

14. targeted beaches could be staked out with blankets of hay (or hair mats)

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.

[Solomon]

15. American Ingenuity at it's finest.

Wonder if we got enough hay?

[northernlights]

16. hay. and also fur and hair

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.

[MN TN]

17. That might work also

Glad to see someone is taking some action

[northernlights]

18. it's been proven to work

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...