New Oil Spill Clean Up Method, Guess What?

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@SciShow 3 months ago

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@markadams7046 3 months ago

It was a barber who came up with the idea of using human hair to clean up oil. I remember seeing a news story about it on one of the major networks years ago.
@chris2746 3 months ago

ABsortion vs ADsorption might be confusing verbally, but makes sense if you think of adsorption as a portmanteu of adhere and sorption
@medusianAllure 3 months ago

Small correction/addition: peat moss is the semi-fossilized stuff dug up from under bogs. It's very unsustainable. Sphagnum moss is the live plant that turns into peat moss when it dies and decomposes in a bog.
@jase_allen 3 months ago

I heard about the hair idea way back when the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was being cleaned up in the Golf of Mexico going on 15 years ago. But by the time I had heard about it, the organization that was collecting hair had said they already had too much and stopped accepting more for a while.
@gergsmail01 3 months ago

If hair works, would feathers work? I've seen what waterfowl look like after swimming through oil spills... maybe make feather dragnets?
@ravioliis_ 3 months ago

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@TheStudioChibi 3 months ago

Learned new things about the peat moss and chicken poop but it was very funny to have the human hair mats phrased as a new thing when every salon I've gone to in the last decade sent off their hair for this.
@AlexirLife 3 months ago

You forgot the mushrooms!!!! Paul Stamets demonstrated the use of fungi to clean up land based oil spills!!! I remember an Australian show about 20 yrs ago called The New Inventors that did what was on the label. They had a guy on there making hair booms for oil spills. Certainly not a new idea
@lirachonyr 3 months ago

Why did the chicken cross the road? To poop on the oil spill and save the environment!
@alfamaize 3 months ago

If there are microbes in chicken poop that consumes hydrocarbons, has anyone tried to use it to decompose (safely) plastic? Even if it takes a long time, it needs to be done.
@nicksamek12 3 months ago

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@TiredMomma 3 months ago

On an epidsode with Mike Rowe, he visited a hair museum in Kansas City, Missouri. It was because of that epidsode I later learned about someone else, collects donated hair to help with oil spills, and did try to help with that one big oil spill in the Gulf. But yes, the issue was on how to collect the hair as it begins to sink.
@Rubrickety 3 months ago

Immediately after watching this video I shaved my head and replaced my hair with a combination of peat moss and chicken poop. It's possible I missed the point.
@zelousfoxtrot3390 3 months ago

Every hair salon should have a 'recycle' bucket to collect hair for this. Make the oil companies pay for shipping.
@bobthegoat7090 3 months ago

A clarification: A boom seems more like containment than actual cleaning. Right?
@Berkana 3 months ago

Does it have to be human hair? How about fur shed from huskies and golden retrievers? I contend that if there were collections for the fur of these animals, we could get a lot more of it a lot faster.
@curtismmichaels 3 months ago

I never thought calling a process chicken sh*t would be a good thing.
@exosproudmamabear558 3 months ago

There is a saying in Turkish usually to ungrateful husbands or children. I made my hair a broom for you. Now we can do it literrally.
@jeffreywickens3379 3 months ago

What about feathers from poultry processing plants, and wool from sheep?