Saturday, August 28, 2010

Microbe cleaned up spilt oil, scientists


A great quote from the hollywood blockbuster "Kungfu Panda" which says "there are no accidents",everything have a reason which  found to be true in this case.

An accident bring you good news.After the disatrous oil spill in gulf of Mexico ,the concerns of the environmentalists are making news over past few months. Everyday these accidents are happening somewhere or the other causing a great damage to world.

It was an impossible task  to clear the petroluem spill.Some part of the spill can be removed using modern technology.Another method was to break the complex organic hydrocarbons into dissolvable substances by microbes.Hence they adopted the classical method of degrading oil.

 A species of bacteria found in the Gulf of Mexico degrades oil faster at deeper and colder depths than expected, scientists said in a study that could explain how the BP oil spill has mostly disappeared.

The bacteria not only speeds up the bio-degradation of crude oil, but does it without depleting vital oxygen levels in the water, the scientists said.

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