[ale] OT - Have you seen this almost trivial solution to the oil mess?

[Greg Clifton]

I haven't watched the video, but I suspect that what they are referring to
as hay (basically dried bermuda, fescue or some such grass or dried alfalfa
for a higher protein feed) was actually wheat straw (or should have been).
Wheat straw is hollow like a drinking straw, which would nearly double, or
at least greatly increase the surface area (I'm not a mathlete, so I'll
leave the calculations for those who are) for the oil to bind to. It is also
useless for animal fodder, but popular for landscaping (think hydro seeding
or more commonly dry seeding) for moisture retention and erosion prevention
while newly sown grass is being established. If I'm correct, the animals and
their owners wouldn't suffer so much as the developers and landscapers, but
those businesses are rather slow [HUGE understatement] these days.
GC

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Preston Boyington <preston.lists at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 08:58, Tom Freeman wrote:
> >> One of the clearest rebuttals to a simple solution that I've seen to
> >> date for virtually any situation. If we could all get in the habit of
> >> checking ideas this way, we might be in better shape.
> >>
> >> OTOH, while I don't think hay is "the solution", I suspect that use of
> >> hay to chase after the oil has some value, and should see some use.
> >> Exactly where is another problem, for another post, and possibly
> >> another venue.
> >
> > Perhaps I didn't catch it, what were the costs/efforts associated with
> > harvesting/storing/shipping/distributing the hay?  Hay seems wonderful
> > if it get's there on it's own. ;-)
> >
>
> an additional concern is the cost of hay for our cattle/horse farms
> after the Fall season.  hay is already a good business so i would
> imagine the price would be a premium with a good bit going for the
> cleanup effort.
>
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