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Fuzzy2 Skimmer Material at Work in Gulf Oil Cleanup

  • Jun 15, 2010

Abanaki Corporation reports that its patent-pending Fuzzy2 oil skimmer material has been at work on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for 38 days and is exceeding expectations by recovering up to 385 gallons of oil per minute from the water's surface, more than three times the capacity of ordinary skimmer material.

The Fuzzy2 material is attached to the surface of 30-inch diameter skimming disks on a floating skimmer made by CRUCIAL Inc. of Gretna, La. CRUCIAL has tested the material in front of oil clean-up experts, and the company expects to see an increase in orders for its disk skimmer equipment.

A disk skimmer uses a rotating disk to remove oil from water. Oleophilic (oil attracting) material collects oil as the disk passes through the water, and wiper blades scrape off the oil for collection. Fuzzy2 has a hairy surface that increases its surface area, making it more effective at removing oil floating on the surface. According to Tom Hobson president of Abanaki, "The beauty of the Fuzzy2 is that it can be retrofitted to virtually any brand of drum or disk type skimmer out there, making it possible for existing skimmers to triple their pickup rate."

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Thu, Jun 17, 2010

While I don't necessarily accede to every proposition above, there is no question that involving the Dutch when they offered their technical support would have made an enormous difference. Excluding them for whatever motive, however innocuous, changed the game to the disaster we have at present. I find it all very depressing....

Tue, Jun 15, 2010 Lawrence Baker

Three days after the oil rig explosion, thirteen countries offered help, most important were the Netherlands and Belgians who have specialized equipment to recover oil in the ocean aboard sea going ships.
The US (Big Oil and World Banksters) doesn’t have the technology or the ships rigged for an oil spill response. Why should they, it is easier to buy politicians and illegal dispersants than to be prepared for a spill. The Belgian firm DEME and Jan De Nul Group contends they can clean up the oil with accuracy at a depth of 6,000 feet.
Obama turned the European offers down.
Thanks to BP and Obama, so far, there has been about 5 million barrels of oil that has leaked into the Gulf and beyond with the aid of illegal dispersants and most of it (by plan) will never be cleaned up.
Had Obama accepted the offer back then and not allowed BP to use illegal dispersants, the oil would have never made landfall 48 miles away.
Today, (a month and half to late) there are US tankers that are steaming to the site with four pairs of modern skimming booms that were airlifted from the Netherlands and should be sucking up oil at the flow site within days.
Each pair can process 5 million gallons of water a day, removing 20,000 tons of oil and sludge.
If those skimmers were in place when they were offered a month ago, each pair could presumably recover 4.4 million barrels of oil. Four pairs of the state of the art skimmers would be able to suck up 17.6 million barrels in a month, although they will not be able to reach the depths of the plumes that are floating away with the illegal dispersants.
I know it is to late for the coast, but maybe today, we will have the initial oil spill response that we should have had months ago and start recovering the oil at the source. There is no longer even a pretense that BP or Obama has any intention of stopping the oil flow permanently.
Nationalize Big Oil and World Bankers for our own public good to save our economy, ecology, Democracy and Independence from the Totalitarian New World Order. The revolution is inevitable between World Totalitarians and our Conservative and Liberal Democracy; which side are you on?


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