On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 14:05, murdoch wrote: > When the Valdez and other Oil Spills have occurred, I had to wonder > why they couldn't burn much of the Oil off the surface, even if they > had to temporarily evacuate some towns because of smoke. In this > case, also, I wonder if they could have burned some of this fuel off, > though I guess not immediately if they were worried about possible > survivors floating in the wreckage. Also, if the ethanol dissipated > quickly, maybe this would have made a burn harder, even if the > faster-than-oil-dissipation would not prevent a kill zone, as you say. > > You'll probably tell me there's plenty wrong or un-doable, with this > idea of burning off the fuel, but there sure seems to be plenty wrong > with having it wash up on beaches, kill fish and foul and other > wildlife, hurt industries, cost billions or dozens of billions, and > cost jobs, etc.
Actually I saw something on TV about experimenting with napalm to burn oil from oil spills. Levon. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
