--- On Mon, 5/3/10, Lawrence F. London, Jr. <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> From: Lawrence F. London, Jr. <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Oil spill - solutions?
> To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Monday, May 3, 2010, 8:10 PM
> 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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