Natural oil-eating bacteria to clean up the Gulf? - armstrong-herrington


20 Φεβ 2013 (πριν από 5 χρόνια και 4 μήνες)

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Natural oil
eating bacteria to clean up the Gulf?

(NaturalNews) The Gulf oil disaster is arguably the worst man
made disaster to have
occurred in the past 100 years. But Israeli researchers have come up with a potentially
viable solution to help clean up
the mess, and it is one they say has worked well before

occurring, oil
eating bacteria.

Professors Eugene Rosenberg and Eliora Ron from Tel Aviv University's Department of
Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology say that a unique, sea

bacteria can be used to help clean


out of hard
reach places like under rocks and
sand. The team has known about this


nce the 1970s, and it has already been
used successfully in other applications.

evidence it could work in Florida too," said Professor Ron.

The team has been s
tudying this bacteria for several decades, and has developed ways to
grow it in labs and increase its oil
eating capacity. After initial oil

efforts have been
undertaken, these special bacteri
a can go in and clean out the rest, they say.

"We see sad pictures of


covered in oil and people with good intentions cleaning bird
wings," Ron explained. "But by the time the oil is on their
wings, it's too late. Birds die
because oil gets into their lungs."

By releasing the bacteria into areas that conventional cleanup methods are unable to
reach, pockets of oil that would otherwise wreak havoc later on down the road are taken
care of before

they can cause further damage.

The same bacteria have successfully been used to clean oil out of oil tanker bilges.