Been some interesting articles about microbes helping with the oil Plume and some other possible technology to help with the clean up. I am sure these are pretty similar, but havent looked them over yet. Oil-Eating Microbes Successfully Clean Up Mumbai Oil Spill | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World Scientists Say Hungry Microbes Ate Giant BP Gulf Oil Plume | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World Gulf Oil Plume Gone, Eaten By Newly Discovered Microbes : TreeHugger MIT's Seaswarm Robots Could Clean Up a Gulf-Sized Spill in a Month | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World MIT's Fleet Of Solar-Powered Oil-Cleaning Robots a Solution for Gulf Spill (Video) : TreeHugger Robot fleet could use 'nano paper' to soak up oil | Crave - CNET
More links: Science News: How Fast Can Microbes Clean Up the Gulf Oil Spill? New research suggests bacteria in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico may be eating oil plumes quickly Scientific American: Deep-sea oil plume goes missing Controversy arises over whether bacteria have completely gobbled it up CNN: Newly discovered microbe helped disperse oil, study finds I suspect it will take much longer to get consensus on just how much of the oil, and which components of it, are biologically consumed.
