An environmental disaster of mammoth proportions struck when an undersea oil well broke following an explosion. The challenge to contain the up-pour is the location, being more than a kilometer beneath ocean surface! That place is distant, cold and dark. With gooey oil spewing out in a roar, approach to cap the orifice shall require a custom engineering solution. Several attempts have been tried, with more or less success. Soon, however, some solution is going to work. But by then much of the stuff would have wormed its way along with waves in all compass directions, leaving disaster to fauna and flora in the water and shores it washes up on. fine thing to hear efforts by the likes of Kelvin Costner deploying machines that separates oil from water to salvage the oil while cleaning the seas. I bet someone, too, may come up with a beach-comber sort of machine that eats up oily sand, cleanses it, then spits it out on the beaches, white as satin sheet. Or licks clean the rocky shores without furthering ocean water pollution.
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Friday, June 25, 2010
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