We need to first explain what happens In Mother Nature when a hazardous material is spilled. There is a myriad of bacteria everywhere on the planet. Where a toxic spill comes in direct contact with bacteria, that bacteria is killed or dies off. Bacteria that is proximal [near] to the spill but not in direct contact, reacts in several ways: First, the bacteria separate themselves far enough away so as to protect themselves from the toxicity of the oil. Second, the bacteria then releases enzymes and biosurfactants to attack the spill. Third, the biosurfactants emulsify and solubilize the oil.
What this means is the biosurfactants will break up and partition the oil into a manageable consistency. In other words, it is breaking down the molecular structure of the oil or detoxifying it, so it can be used as a food source.
The enzymes then form binding sites on the emulsified or solubilize oil and this is where the bacteria will initially attach themselves and start the digestive process.
There have to be large amounts of bacteria for this process to take effect, and, if left solely to nature, it is a long process for bacteria to acclimate themselves to a spill. It then takes further time for the bacteria to release enzymes and surfactants.
One of the limiting factors is the number of bacteria present to produce and release enough enzymes and surfactants to get the process started.
This is why you hear scientists talk about adding nutrients to jumpstart the rapid growth of bacteria so enough enzymes and biosurfactants can be released to affect the mitigation of the spill.
However, nutrients alone have limited uses because of concentration requirements which are compromised in various environments--washed away or diluted by wave motion and that, compounded with the time it takes to grow a large population of bacteria, reduces their effectiveness.
Wouldn't it be nice if there were a means of emulating Mother Nature while at the same time, speeding up the process to mitigate in hours, days or weeks what Mother Nature takes months and/or years to handle on her own?
There is such a solution: OIL SPILL EATER II
OIL SPILL EATER II (OSE II) contains exact proportions of enzymes, bio surfactants, nutrients and other necessary constituents for complete life cycles and biodegradation.
When OSE II is added to oil, it is not necessary to wait on the proximal bacteria to release enough enzymes or bio surfactants since they are already supplied by OSE II. Therefore, the minute you apply OSE II, there is sufficient biosurfactants to start the emulsification and solubilization process. This process generally takes just a minute or two, or possibly several more minutes depending on the consistency of the spill. As the bio surfactants do their job, the enzymes are attaching themselves to broken down hydrocarbon structures, forming digestive binding sites.
Note: Once this process has occurred, several important changes take effect:
1. The fire hazard has diminished. 2. The toxicity of the spill is rapidly diminished. 3. The odor or smell is almost non-existent. 4. The oil or spill will no longer adhere to anything. 5. The spill is caused to float, OSE II will prevent the oil from sinking.
If the spill has not reached a shoreline yet, but does so after application, it will not adhere to wildlife, sand, rock, wood, metal, or any vegetation.
If the spill has already attached itself, once application occurs, the oil will be lifted from sand, rock, wood, metal or vegetation and wildlife. OSE II is the perfect solution for cleaning up oiled wildlife and marine life because it works so swiftly and is non-toxic, causing the oil to just easily slough off once sprayed on. This causes less trauma for the animal being cleaned and a much faster and easier cleanup process.
The oil is detoxified to the point that indigenous bacteria (natural to a given environmental location) can now utilize the oil as a food source. This also diminishes toxicity to marine organisms, birds or wildlife.
OSE II causes the oil to float on the surface of the water, which reduces the impact to the sub-surface preventing secondary contamination of the water column or tertiary contamination on the floor of the body of water associated with the spill area. The spill being held on the surface will make it easy to monitor.
OSE II also has an efficient nutrient system which is activated once you mix the product with natural water, water native to the spill environment.
While the spill is being broken down and detoxified, the indigenous bacteria already living in the natural water used to mix OSE II starts rapidly growing of large numbers of indigenous bacteria.
Once the bacteria run out of the OSE II's nutrients, they convert over to the only food source left: the detoxified oil. The spill is then digested to CO2 and water.
Well, the fact is we allowed big oil corporations to run the government for their own profit. As with other fascist countries like America and organized private corporations like the Mafia it is hard to crack down on them.
Obama let Big Polluter (BP) run their own cleanup on this disaster and they are as usual controlling the information being release a la Orwell's 1984.
"Outlining what he called the "Obama oil spill timeline," Mica said the administration failed to heed warnings about the need for more regulation . . . "
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With all due respect, Rep. Mica has said he doesn't place a great deal of blame on BP, but rather on the government. But I thought the Republicans were for smaller government with less regulation, and more so called self policing by the industry. Which way do we want it: more regulation or less? You can't have it both ways.
That being said, I do think the government dropped the ball on this one. I know how far back the relationships between oil and government go, but I am not a Bush basher, and this has happened under Obama's watch. So there is blame there. But as a native Floridian who has loved the Gulf my whole life, I continue to find BP's - and the government's - response astonishing. This is an unabated nightmare and BP is on the hook right now.
"On Monday BP's CEO said he expects the environmental impact to be minimal." -----------------
We've got a gusher a mile down BP can't fix. It's spewing out, by some estimates, 3.4 million gallons per day. There is oil on the beaches, slicks as long as ten miles, and three miles wide. We've already had fouled sea birds. The fishing and shrimping industries in much of Louisiana are shut down. CEO Hayward has called the spill "tiny" and now "minimal." There is no end to this man's arrogance. This could be one of the most significant ecological disasters in history. I hope Mr. Hayward can choose to fly to the Gulf, commercial coach and not the corporate jet, and clean off sea birds. Might humble him a little.
The NOAA core and the coast guard are not working for the american people. Corporate interests have gotten big government off their backs and have become the government. The media is largely manipulated by these interests. No checks and balances for these private interests are rapidly proving toxic to the greater interests of humanity.
by ddal10 May 19, 2010 10:54 PM EDT This is Cheneys Back room deal with the oil industry and the removal of regulations. Heck, we can't even afford the Gas they're selling us right now and now they're putting the final nails in the coffin of our Earth. The one and only Planet we have that keeps all of us alive. We can move to less destructive alternatives, but there are too many making money off of oil to let it go quietly and you are probably one of them. All at the expense of all of our lives, including you and yours. Brilliant!
seriously, you might want to check out who obama's second largest corporate donor was next to goldman sachs. And then you might want to check out under who's administration that same exact oil rig received a "safety award". And then you might want to check out under who's administration the number of inspections of BP's oil rigs were reduced.
actually we should drill baby drill. The world runs on oil. Oil is used in everything from make up to Q-tips. There is plenty of oil in the US for us not to be dependant on other countries but the environmentalists shut any and all exploration down. That's why BP, an English company, has to drill 50 miles out at sea and 5,000 feet down. You don't want oil, you don't want nuclear power what do you want? There is no viable energy alternative, and please don't say "solar" "wind" "electric cars" and "fuel cells" because they are simply inadequate. Instead of pointing fingers, our annointed one should be helping to solve the problem which he has not done. He has exacerbated the problem while trying to deflect blame from himself.
It's funny how the administration gave this rig a "safety award" last year and reduced the number of inspections. We never hear about that, do we. We also don't hear that after Goldman Sachs, BP was the second largest corporate donor to the obama campaign. So you keep on blaming bush. It makes you look like a complete idiot.
here's what I don't understand: remember the exxon valdez incident?
They were championing "oil wrangling" whereby they corraled the oil on the surface and pumped it back into tankers. It was supposed to be this incredible solution that helped stave off the impending disaster. In this spill the oil ran amuck and then was set on fire. If oil is so precious, why did they set it on fire instead of trying to save it?
Seriously, and with all due respect, golf carts are not the answer.
There's a reason why they are called golf carts.
it would serve you well to do a little research. the total estimated oil reserves in our waters and land would last our country for maybe 15 years, give or take a few, at its current demand. drill, baby, drill is not the solution. as long as we use as much oil as we do, we will always be dependent on foreign oil.
it would serve you to do a little research. There's plenty of oil in the US and there is no oil shortage. The problem is being able to drill for it. The current land leases that are "allowed to be drilled" have no oil and enough environmental restrictions to choke a horse. You don't want to drill, you don't want nuclear energy, what do you freaken want?
No blaming Bush and Cheney are a correct assessment. Obama received money as did other candidates...none more than Bush. Toyota had plenty of safety awards and look what happened. THE PROBLEM: No oil company planned for an accident at sea. We will have problems but we are sophisticated enough to plan for the risks.
actually, palin was absolutely correct. And she, bush and cheney have forgotten more about the oil business than obama and his entire administration know.
ddai, this didn't happen under bush. Bush didn't give the BP rig a safety award and reduce the number of inspections. If the people want to be angry at somebody tell them to be angry at the guy who went whitewater rafting and the guy who went campaigning and didn't even respond until 11 days after the leak started.
all the cons are crying for the govt to do more about the spill now, when they cried for years to leave the oil companies alone. the bush years saw such a large disregard and elimination of needed regulations, it is scary! now they are crying for the govt to come swooping in and have the immediate solution. the govt is not in the industry of stopping deepwater oil spills in the ocean. bp for its part downplayed any possibility of a spill, as did the entire oil industry. we've been hearing how technology is so advanced that spills are virtually impossible. it's just the latest example of the blatantly hypocritic and greedy croons that run the gop, screwing the average american while looking out for their corporate financiers.
I'd say that when tom strickland went whitewater rafting 3 days after the spill and obama went campaigning and didn't utter a word for 11 days it exhibited a sense of benign neglect regarding the urgency of the situation. Unfortunately he can't say he was preoccupied with the floods in Tennessee because he didn't do squat about them.
we need much tighter safety and environmental regulations before expanding drilling. the cap needs on liability for spills needs to be raised much more (currently at $75 million) or eliminated to prevent companies from conducting operations with ridiculously lax or nonexistent safety considerations. unfortunately the party of no is at it again, blocking the increase of the cap to $10 billion, which could leave it up to taxpayers.
at least hopefully this event will ensure much tighter regulation of the oil industry in the future, as obama is already trying.
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HOW BIOREMEDIATION OCCURS IN MOTHER NATURE
We need to first explain what happens In Mother Nature when a hazardous
material is spilled.
There is a myriad of bacteria everywhere on the planet. Where a toxic spill comes in direct
contact with bacteria, that bacteria is killed or dies off. Bacteria that is proximal [near] to the spill but not in direct contact, reacts in several ways:
First, the bacteria separate themselves far enough away so as to protect themselves from the toxicity of the oil.
Second, the bacteria then releases enzymes and biosurfactants to attack the
spill.
Third, the biosurfactants emulsify and solubilize the oil.
What this means is the biosurfactants will break up and partition the oil into a manageable consistency. In other words, it is breaking down the molecular structure of the oil or detoxifying it, so it can be used as a food source.
The enzymes then form binding sites on the emulsified or solubilize oil and
this is where the bacteria will initially attach themselves and start the digestive process.
There have to be large amounts of bacteria for this process to take effect, and, if left solely to nature, it is a long process for bacteria to acclimate themselves to a spill. It then takes further time for the bacteria to release enzymes and surfactants.
One of the limiting factors is the number of bacteria present to produce and release enough enzymes and surfactants to get the process started.
This is why you hear scientists talk about adding nutrients to jumpstart the rapid growth of bacteria so enough enzymes and biosurfactants can be released to affect the mitigation of the spill.
However, nutrients alone have limited uses because of concentration requirements which are compromised in various environments--washed away or diluted by wave motion and that, compounded with the time it takes to grow a large population of bacteria, reduces their effectiveness.
Wouldn't it be nice if there were a means of emulating Mother Nature while at
the same time, speeding up the process to mitigate in hours, days or weeks what Mother
Nature takes months and/or years to handle on her own?
There is such a solution: OIL SPILL EATER II
OIL SPILL EATER II (OSE II) contains exact proportions of enzymes, bio surfactants, nutrients and other necessary constituents for complete life cycles and biodegradation.
When OSE II is added to oil, it is not necessary to wait on the proximal bacteria to release enough enzymes or bio surfactants since they are already supplied by OSE II. Therefore, the minute you apply OSE II, there is sufficient biosurfactants to start the emulsification and solubilization process. This process generally takes just a minute or two, or possibly several more minutes depending on the consistency of the spill. As the bio surfactants do their job, the enzymes are attaching themselves to broken down hydrocarbon structures, forming digestive binding sites.
Note: Once this process has occurred, several important changes take effect:
1. The fire hazard has diminished.
2. The toxicity of the spill is rapidly diminished.
3. The odor or smell is almost non-existent.
4. The oil or spill will no longer adhere to anything.
5. The spill is caused to float, OSE II will prevent the oil from sinking.
If the spill has not reached a shoreline yet, but does so after application, it will not adhere to wildlife, sand, rock, wood, metal, or any vegetation.
If the spill has already attached itself, once application occurs, the oil will be
lifted from sand, rock, wood, metal or vegetation and wildlife. OSE II is the perfect solution for cleaning up oiled wildlife and marine life because it works so swiftly and is non-toxic, causing the oil to just easily slough off once sprayed on. This causes less trauma for the animal being cleaned and a much faster and easier cleanup process.
The oil is detoxified to the point that indigenous bacteria (natural to a given environmental location) can now utilize the oil as a food source. This also diminishes toxicity to marine organisms, birds or wildlife.
OSE II causes the oil to float on the surface of the water, which reduces the impact to the sub-surface preventing secondary contamination of the water column or tertiary contamination on the floor of the body of water associated with the spill area. The spill being held on the surface will make it easy to monitor.
OSE II also has an efficient nutrient system which is activated once you mix
the product with natural water, water native to the spill environment.
While the spill is being broken down and detoxified, the indigenous bacteria already living in the natural water used to mix OSE II starts rapidly growing of large numbers of indigenous bacteria.
Once the bacteria run out of the OSE II's nutrients, they convert over to the only food source left: the detoxified oil. The spill is then digested to CO2 and water.
Obama let Big Polluter (BP) run their own cleanup on this disaster and they are as usual controlling the information being release a la Orwell's 1984.
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With all due respect, Rep. Mica has said he doesn't place a great deal of blame on BP, but rather on the government. But I thought the Republicans were for smaller government with less regulation, and more so called self policing by the industry. Which way do we want it: more regulation or less? You can't have it both ways.
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We've got a gusher a mile down BP can't fix. It's spewing out, by some estimates, 3.4 million gallons per day. There is oil on the beaches, slicks as long as ten miles, and three miles wide. We've already had fouled sea birds. The fishing and shrimping industries in much of Louisiana are shut down. CEO Hayward has called the spill "tiny" and now "minimal." There is no end to this man's arrogance. This could be one of the most significant ecological disasters in history. I hope Mr. Hayward can choose to fly to the Gulf, commercial coach and not the corporate jet, and clean off sea birds. Might humble him a little.
This is Cheneys Back room deal with the oil industry and the removal of regulations. Heck, we can't even afford the Gas they're selling us right now and now they're putting the final nails in the coffin of our Earth. The one and only Planet we have that keeps all of us alive. We can move to less destructive alternatives, but there are too many making money off of oil to let it go quietly and you are probably one of them. All at the expense of all of our lives, including you and yours. Brilliant!
seriously, you might want to check out who obama's second largest corporate donor was next to goldman sachs. And then you might want to check out under who's administration that same exact oil rig received a "safety award". And then you might want to check out under who's administration the number of inspections of BP's oil rigs were reduced.
It's funny how the administration gave this rig a "safety award" last year and reduced the number of inspections. We never hear about that, do we. We also don't hear that after Goldman Sachs, BP was the second largest corporate donor to the obama campaign. So you keep on blaming bush. It makes you look like a complete idiot.
They were championing "oil wrangling" whereby they corraled the oil on the surface and pumped it back into tankers. It was supposed to be this incredible solution that helped stave off the impending disaster. In this spill the oil ran amuck and then was set on fire. If oil is so precious, why did they set it on fire instead of trying to save it?
Seriously, and with all due respect, golf carts are not the answer.
There's a reason why they are called golf carts.
Drill baby drill.
I still can here the sound of that moron Sarah saying it on national TV during the debates remember that idiot.
Had enough of the party of deregulation?
funny how all those voices are now quite silent.
we need much tighter safety and environmental regulations before expanding drilling. the cap needs on liability for spills needs to be raised much more (currently at $75 million) or eliminated to prevent companies from conducting operations with ridiculously lax or nonexistent safety considerations. unfortunately the party of no is at it again, blocking the increase of the cap to $10 billion, which could leave it up to taxpayers.
at least hopefully this event will ensure much tighter regulation of the oil industry in the future, as obama is already trying.