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Some southern boys find a pretty good solution for the oil spill Options
 
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#1 Posted : 5/8/2010 5:41:57 AM

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your not going to believe this

Pretty amazing stuff, using a very simple idea...Hay!

How much you wanna bet the government doesn't even consider it? instead they will pay some company millions to use some toxic chemical to do the job.

sad...

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#2 Posted : 5/8/2010 10:17:31 AM

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I bet certain fungi could even decompose all that contaminated hay.
 
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#3 Posted : 5/8/2010 10:35:45 AM

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Lovely. I like this kind of simple solutions to problems.
Why hasnt science already developed some sort of (synthetic) super super megasurface fiber that adsorbs oil even better?

Whats the reason oil stains are not countered by use of this adsorption principle? Or am i wrong and is it already in use?
Must admit that i havent studied the subject..:/

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#4 Posted : 5/8/2010 2:40:38 PM

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Lovely thread, it really warms my heart that people care out there and are putting forward a simple but affective harmless solution. Sad though as I don't think it will be implemented...


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#5 Posted : 5/8/2010 2:50:14 PM

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Aegle wrote:
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Lovely thread, it really warms my heart that people care out there and are putting forward a simple but affective harmless solution. Sad though as I don't think it will be implemented...


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It is sad, but you would be surprised at the amount of farmers in the midwest that are actually doing things like this all the time!

Bio-diesel (I've tried the soap, works damn good!)
Ethanol (corn farmers)
Crop Cycling(keeping the soil fertile)

these are just 3 other examples of how these kinds of people are taking the resources they have been using for hundreds of years and applying it in new ways to help save their local ecosystems/economies.
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#6 Posted : 5/8/2010 3:04:32 PM

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Farmers are the salt of the earth as they have a strong connection with plants and our planet. Its a beautiful thing to see those two farmers just wanting to provide a solution. I have a great respect for farmers, I hope to grow all my own food some day. Its just sad that farmers are controlled by companies like Monsanto as they have a connection with the environment and most of the time don't want to harm our planet...


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#7 Posted : 5/8/2010 4:08:05 PM
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After that is skimmed off you could grow oyster mushrooms on it and it would decompose the oil into simple sugars... As seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BelfLIJErek
 
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Virola78 wrote:
Lovely. I like this kind of simple solutions to problems.
Why hasnt science already developed some sort of (synthetic) super super megasurface fiber that adsorbs oil even better?

Whats the reason oil stains are not countered by use of this adsorption principle? Or am i wrong and is it already in use?
Must admit that i havent studied the subject..:/




I provided a link in the "Consciousness shift trigger" thread to an article in regards to a new peat moss that is excellent at doing just that.

https://www.dmt-nexus.me...amp;m=141351#post141351


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Here Paul Stamets and Lisa Gautier explain how they used hair mats to suck up the oil and then let oyster mushrooms digest it.
But I can hardly imagine there is enough hair to cover this huge area... but anyhow, these ideas deserve to practiced on a large scale by now!
 
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#10 Posted : 5/8/2010 8:33:37 PM
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That oilleak realy sucks big time. I can't understand why these things are still happening.Confused
Is there anybody who knows or has a rough estimation how long it's gonna take for nature to get back to what it was before the leak?
 
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#11 Posted : 5/8/2010 9:19:17 PM

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That oilleak realy sucks big time. I can't understand why these things are still happening.Confused
Is there anybody who knows or has a rough estimation how long it's gonna take for nature to get back to what it was before the leak?
Its going to take the death of the cancer that is tge human species. Which probably will never happen. We seem pretty resiliant.Im sure the earth will die first and we will have moved on.
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#12 Posted : 5/8/2010 9:36:02 PM
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Really great & very simple solution. Sounds like it'd be very easy to implement though the tricky part would be collecting all the oil soaked hay.
 
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#13 Posted : 5/9/2010 12:38:10 AM

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Great idea - I think you would need more hay than it would be possible to get, but got to be worth a try!
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#14 Posted : 5/12/2010 9:20:45 PM

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There's also an article about this: http://www.newsherald.com/news/...a-83647-beach-santa.html

As far as I can tell, oyster mushrooms will have no problem colonizing hay as well as it does with hair.

Is there any reason this wouldn't work well for protecting the marshes? Obviously you wouldn't want to cover the gulf with hay, but it seems ideal for protecting the shorelines and marshes. It would be quite a bit simpler than hair, as it's likely more abundant and can be used largely as-is, whether in bails or loosely.
 
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#15 Posted : 5/13/2010 3:21:03 PM

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This is a good idea! using this method you could then gather up the oil coverec hay and inoculate it with P. ostreatus mycelium.

Paul Stamets has already done experiments with Oyster mycelium abosorbing oil from soils. hay is easier for the mycelium to breakdown. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7PjqMh96XE

these guess found a great solution to grabbing the oil, now we just have to put other methods together, i think this is fuckin awesome!

<edit> lol others already posted on this. so i will say. Yes i agree oyster mycelium is amazing, eats everything.
 
 
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