Maybe the giant tanker turned skimmer is the future oil cleanup machine
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Maybe we finally developed a better oil cleanup process .......

Here is a photo of the giant tanker that was turned into a skimmer: (photo here). It also states that this can filter 500,000 BARRELS a day (not gallons, but barrels of oil which is roughly 40 gallons each or more). By filtering, this means it separates the oil from the ocean water, and spits the ocean water back into the sea. I hate to say it, but maybe the gulf oil spill is what finally woke people up to try new cleanup techniques. The technology for cleanup is obviously way behind, but this seems to be the first great invention on how to handle a situation like this. Remember also that it can only get the oil near the surface, and some is also very deep, but at least its better then nothing! One thing is for sure, when a future deep water oil spill occurs, which it most surely will again sometime in the future .... the lessons learned from the gulf oil spill will be very valueable. The techniques that worked and failed, and why they failed, will save time, effort, and money, for those that need to stop and cleanup all future spills.

Anonymous Says:
It says that ship is 3.5 football fields long? wow. If that works at cleaning the ocean then maybe after the oil spill is cleaned up they should use it to filter out all the nitrogen and other chemicals pouring out of the mississippi river and into the gulf. That is creating dead zones from all the fertilizer, rain water, and other chemicals flowing down the mississippi. Those dead zones are getting larger and larger, and would be cool to see if they could skim that and clean the ocean water where pollution is heaviest.

Anonymous Says:
Looks like the ship was a giant bust. It was a tanker company that owned it, at least they are trying I guess. Unfortunately it just doesn't work.

Anonymous Says:
Well it looks like the oil spill is officially over which is great. I'm amazed at the oil being gone already, I think what people failed to realize is that the gulf eats oil alot faster in the warm waters, unlike alaska. Now if they can just find a way to clean the mississippi river water that is draining into the gulf with all the fertilizer and creating the dead zones. Thats growing yearly and is a far bigger issue then the oil ever will be.

Danice Says:
None can doubt the varceity of this article.

Allayna Says:
Shoot, who would have thoguht that it was that easy?


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