[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5SxX2EntEo[/media]
Hay is a very common crop/waste, and it does seem to do a good job of removing the oil. I know it wouldn't stop the leaking but it would atleast clean the water so far.
Plus any hay not collected would either go to shore and decompose or decompose at sea, so no permanent damage.
But would it work and would it be practical, that is the question.
Sounds better than clogging the damn drain with garbage.
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and polluting the ocean
I don't know how stable the hay would remain at the depth or pressure of the source of the spill, where we need to clog. Even just the sheer magnitude of the spill might make this plan a bit unfeasible.
Very clever but you would need a lot of hay.
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;21887063]I don't know how stable the hay would remain at the depth or pressure of the source of the spill, where we need to clog. Even just the sheer magnitude of the spill might make this plan a bit unfeasible.[/QUOTE]
I said in the OP, this wouldn't be to stop the leak, but to clean the ocean surface.
They've been using hair... id say hay is probably good enough. Hell, lets throw all kinds of shit in there, bow-ties, otters, you name it. Then we can float it all out to sea over where the leak is and use it as new oil platform. We are SOO onto a win here.
America: Fuck yea
That's also a pretty good idea. There would just be the issue of procuring all the hay that you'd need.
Nuke the drilling site to stop the leak then do what the video says.
[QUOTE=RedBlade2021;21887668]That's also a pretty good idea. There would just be the issue of procuring all the hay that you'd need.[/QUOTE]
I think I drive by enough hay every single day on the way to class to deal a good amount of damage. Call up all the farms in the Midwest US they've got you covered.
this is amazing, hope it works.
Hey guys, what do BP and the Soviet Union have in common?
They both try to hide their ecological disasters in a giant steel box.
well if the oil just rests on it then if it decomps then all the oil goes back into the ocean and no matter what they still need to plug the drain oils still leaking out
The hay they didn't collect would still decompose and release the oil back into the ocean. It doesn't suck it out of existence, it just collects it up.
I think it could possibly work. But would the clean up crews consider it? Probably not, because it would take A LOT of hay.
It's not a bad idea though.
You'd get the same effect from laying down sheets of paper towel then taking them up. A better thing to do would be to make a sort of giant shamwow, lay it out in strips behind a long line fishing boat, then real it in and squeeze it out over a tank.
[QUOTE=cheesedelux;21888585]The hay they didn't collect would still decompose and release the oil back into the ocean. It doesn't suck it out of existence, it just collects it up.[/QUOTE]
Harvest the hay back
[QUOTE=OvB;21889597]You'd get the same effect from laying down sheets of paper towel then taking them up. A better thing to do would be to make a sort of giant shamwow, lay it out in strips behind a long line fishing boat, then real it in and squeeze it out over a tank.[/QUOTE]
We already have a load of hay. Have fun making that giant shamwow.
They should just nuke the whore.
[QUOTE=Performual;21889873]We already have a load of hay. Have fun making that giant shamwow.[/QUOTE]
Hay is also an expensive valuable agricultural necessity. Farmers need hay for many things. Hay is also commonly in short supply. It's an unpredictable resource. Not to mention the fertilizers and pesticides that may be in it from coming from an agricultural community. If you don't know, Agricultural runoff is a leading killer of sea life, and putting tons of it into the ocean would remove one ecological disaster and replace it with another. In the amounts needed to clean the oil spill were talking about, hay would just not be a doable thing.
A giant shammy on the other hand, would not harm the ocean, would not take a valuable resource from farmers, but it would also be reusable, easier to collect, and cheaper in the long run of things.
They could always just nuke the oil spill area - that should remove the oil.
[QUOTE=Sobek-;21891343]They could always just nuke the oil spill area - that should remove the oil.[/QUOTE]
Lets stop forest fires by nuking them while were at it.
How can nuking the ocean be a GOOD thing?
They have been using hay. I live in Panama City, we've been hearing about all these ideas. Trust me, it's on the radio. They're using everything they can think of.
[QUOTE=Funcoot;21891501]They have been using hay. I live in Panama City, we've been hearing about all these ideas. Trust me, it's on the radio. They're using everything they can think of.[/QUOTE]
I live in Houston and all we hear is how incompetent BP is. It's important to note that a few years ago a BP plant exploded here killing a few people.
How can people even contemplate nuking the site?
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