In oil spill cleanup, they can use several different organisms to eat the oil. The first time it was tried out was with the Exxon Valdez tanker accident. Now they probably have many more of them. In fact, the first biological organism that was able to get a patent was engineered to do just that- help clean up oil spills. I believe it was a guy at Bell Labs, if my memory serves.
kathryn On Jun 10, 2010, at 3:21 PM, ted mozell wrote: > Hey Steve, Why the hell don't they use the oil one over in the gulf for the > monster clean up Ted > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Norton, Steve <stephen.nor...@ngc.com> wrote: > A quick update on my forage into enzymes. In my first post I referenced > a patent regarding the use of enzymes as a pesticide. The patent > mentioned Bacto-Zyme as a preferred source of enzymes. In my second post > I mentione
