Environmentally Correct Oil Spill Cleanup Solution with Hay & Straw
Posted by Oilism.com on January 8th, 2011 at 10:38am
In this video posted by the Walton County (FL) Sheriff’s Department, Darryl Carpenter, Vice President of Florida-based CW Roberts Contracting and sub-contractor Otis Goodson, shows how hay, hay grass and straw can be used as a very effective environmentally correct oil spill cleanup solution. In a scene reminiscent of a primetime cooking show, the Carpenter and Goodson video shows how Coastal Bermuda and Bahia hay could be scattered over the surface of the ocean with hay blowers to absorb the oil. To start, the two men pour oil into two large pans of water, stir in the hay, add a little “wave action,” then skim off the oil-soaked hay. The audience watching the Walton County video included representatives from BP (British Petroleum), the Coast Guard and the Sheriff’s office. CW Roberts then asks BP and the Coast Guard for the chance to do a 10-acre live demonstration in Gulf waters. They were told that approval has to come from higher up, but can they say no to this environmentally correct oil spill cleanup solution, with just Hay and Straw? “We work along the whole Gulf of Mexico coastal area in Florida,” says CW Roberts president, Charles Roberts. “We have everything mobilized. We can have boats and equipment on the water in less than a half-day. We have been getting calls from all over, from people who want to supply the hay. We want to be given the chance to see if it works. If it works on 10-acres, then give us a bigger assignment.” CW Roberts, a 700-employee …
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25 Comments for Environmentally Correct Oil Spill Cleanup Solution with Hay & Straw
1. rapteye | January 8th, 2011 at 11:33 am
“Whey Hay” problem solved.
On a larger scale, this would mean to have Huge fine nets full of Hay/Straw being trailed by Boats on a routine section throughout the Gulf in the worst affected areas. Could it really be possible?
Well Done Chaps, you deserve more then just a noble Prize….
Worldwide Recognition Recommended!
2. FreeThePlantNOW | January 8th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
TOO ALL YOU SLUTS
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sign the petition
SPREAD THE WORD PLEASE?
3. billydumont | January 8th, 2011 at 12:32 pm
@Fobio4004 Cute tactic – And though it just might work….there is no money in the cure
4. marlinmantoo | January 8th, 2011 at 12:55 pm
people wake up the best way to clean up oil on beach is with free oil. gets the oil out of the sand and put the sand back on the beach not in a landfill look up ancon free oil
5. datzfast | January 8th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
i know how to get rid of toxic oil but if you mix it with straw getting rid of that crap is impossible
6. joshjaime254 | January 8th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
if u hav any problems withe the oil spill DONT FUCKIN USE ANYTHIG TO DO W OIL!!!!!!!!!!
7. NiftyProductionz | January 8th, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Human Hair is actually much more effective, since hair has a high absorbency in capturing oil like a seagull’s feathers, it’ll be less ugly and efficient. The hair technique has been done already in the oceans of the Alaskan oil spill and has been cleaned through the gatherings of hair from hair salons and were placed in fiber bags to be cleaned and reused. It’s smart and environmentally clean.
8. PhaedraHafsa | January 8th, 2011 at 3:37 pm
@hkrivell Cause the government wants something “less primitive and southern” and use chemicals that could do more damage later…
9. Imperius41 | January 8th, 2011 at 4:04 pm
they already are doing this….it’s called boons…
10. RuroniKenshin12 | January 8th, 2011 at 4:24 pm
@undertake782 it would make it worse… lol could u imagine how much hay they would have to clean up
11. undertake782 | January 8th, 2011 at 5:06 pm
They said the hay would make it a lot worse.
12. tntrampage1 | January 8th, 2011 at 5:45 pm
BP needs a shitload of hay
13. unoloquito | January 8th, 2011 at 5:49 pm
it takes about three cups of hay to pick up a cup of visible crude. there are by now a few billion gallons of crude contaminating the gulf. have to measure the amount of contamination in the basins of water before the hay and after the hay clean up, then, maybe, a conclusion of how effective the use of hay to clean crude from sea water can be stablished.
14. weylondobranski | January 8th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
um, this vid needs to go viral. put it up on facebook, and share with your friends and families people. if solutions can be this simple, then our governments are either completely inept or lying to us or both. we need to tell each other the truth when we find it!
15. Skunklchuck | January 8th, 2011 at 6:28 pm
@armydoc115 It was a joke Asshole, Glad you have the time to hate on people , So Fuck off!!!!!!!!!!! Your the retard
16. madcapoctopus | January 8th, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Don’t you think BP knows this already? They are prolonging this clean up for their own self-interest! Those gulf states should be allowed to keep this oil for themselves and use the money to help rebuild their shores. In NO WAY is this oil BP’s anymore! @Billy led me here as well! =) The least The Smashing Pumpkins can do is play a show down there, am I right?
17. bulletinman | January 8th, 2011 at 7:41 pm
Wow a real Sheriff’s department.
18. catinhas77 | January 8th, 2011 at 8:15 pm
@corgangerman
me too
BC is a great guy …thats why he lead us here to see that…
19. ariel735 | January 8th, 2011 at 8:16 pm
may not be a solution; but its a start.(or could be if they would try it) oh, and btw, Billy led me here.
20. corgangerman | January 8th, 2011 at 9:03 pm
Billy Corgan lead me here, too!!!
21. LadyPaige143 | January 8th, 2011 at 9:25 pm
I agree that they will need an abnormally large amount of hay to clean up the oil that continyues to pour from the pipe. But at least they’re making an effort. We should all stop being critical towards everyone’s idea’s to clean up the spill! Every little bit helps!
22. OlymPigs2010 | January 8th, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Well at this rate shown you’d need at least 10 Bushels of Hay to Soak Up 1 Barrel of Oil – BP is Leaking an estimated 100.000 Barrels of Oil each day into the Gulf – so you’d need ONE Million Bushels of Hay “DAILY” to try and Sop-Up this OIL – and that 1 Million Bushels of Hay is just for the Oil spilled today – You’d need another 72 Million Bushels of Hay to Sop-Up the Oil already spilled into the Gulf! So Boys….Good Luck with that marvelous “Idea” of yours!!!
23. piepartyzena | January 8th, 2011 at 10:26 pm
Billy Corgan lead me here!!
24. brownsvilleman101 | January 8th, 2011 at 11:09 pm
re post this if billy led you here!!
25. Skone117 | January 8th, 2011 at 11:39 pm
@armydoc115
By natural stirring, you mean a GIANT SPOON stirring the entire body of water?
Im sorry but currents dont stir like how they are stirring here artard!
Oil is scattered on the surface, and much more is scattered 50-100ft below the gulf. The buoyancy of hay doesn’t sink that far in. RETARD!
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