permaculture

[Michael Thompson <mike.brian@gmail.com>]

sounds kind of like this is going to happen:
http://www.physorg.com/news191397828.html

"Some 700 feet deep in the waters off California's jewel of a coastal
resort, Santa Barbara, sits a group of football-field-sized asphalt
domes unlike any other underwater features known to exist.
About 35,000 years ago, a series of apparent undersea volcanoes
deposited massive flows of petroleum 10 miles offshore."



On 5/4/10, jamesdavid Sneed <harvestcircle@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Several bio-remediation techniques involving hydrocarbon-eating microbes are
> dependent on the injection of oxygen when they are in soil such as at the
> old tank farm in Haines Alaska.
>
>> Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 23:10:16 -0400
>> From: venaurafarm@bellsouth.net
>> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
>> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Oil spill - solutions?
>>
>> Cory Brennan wrote:
>> > Oil eating microbes die when the oil is gone. The oil, on the other
>> > hand, sticks around in one form or other and keeps on killing. They
>> > are now using toxic stuff that sinks it to the bottom of the ocean. I
>> > guess out of sight, out of mind... The company I am most familiar
>> > with uses only existing microbes, they are not GM at all.
>>
>> Do they require an aerobic environment? The Gulf marshes are lacking in
>> water movement and oxygen and that is an important place where the
>> microbes would be needed. This situation could be positive for anaerobic
>> oil eating microbes; they could stay in place relatively undisturbed to
>> do their work. During storms the areas could be cleansed, flushing away
>> residues, leaving the marshes in near original condition, ideally.
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