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24 comments:
I think that this is really interesting, if you try to clean up the oil, it effects the fish more than the actual spill. We should use different materials that do not cause chemical reaactions
I don't know why they didn't discover this sooner, they are chemicals that they are putting into the water. It is amazing that the cleaning up of the spill causes more damage than the actual oil spill itself. They should try to find safer chemicals that won't harm the surrounding environment, but still clean up the mess.
I thought that this article was really cool. I mean, you would think that if the sponge absorbed the oil it would absorb the water also but this one only sucks up the oil leaving the water behind.
Sorry this comment should go for the other article.
I found this article to be very really interesting. No matter how we try to clean up small oils spills, creatures will either be harmed by the oil themselves, or just the chemicals used in the dispersants. I fell that Johnny was right in saying that we should develop new chemicals that harm the sea life less, but still have the same cleaning effect that the other dispersants have.
If it affects the fish more than the oil, than shouldn't there be a more effective way of cleaning up the spill, that doesn't involve harming innocent fish? The problem is, if they did end up finding a new way to do it, it might not be as effective. It might also be hard to find a way that doesn't harm the fish. It's pretty simple though: DON'T put POISONOUS chemicals into the water.
I agree with Brandon F, engineers should have been able to know that there was something wrong with their chemicals. Now that they know this is a risk when you clean up spill, I wonder how they will fix this problem. Most probably cleaning up oil spills with tools more effective in the short-run and less effective in the long-run.
I did not understand why nobody figured out that chemicals are harmful to fish sooner!!! Chemicals are not a natural substance, and therefor of course it would have an effect on sea life. It's like dumping a bucket of Tarn-X down a storm drain! Why not just skim the surface of the water with a giant sponge?
I think that this is really cool! I agree with brandon f, i don't know why they didn't discover it sooner!
This is awful! I cannot believe scientists did not know of this before! But, on the upside, now we know that we shouldn't use detergents and instead use the kitty litter up in article 1. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but these two articles did come out during the same year. Anyways, with the aerogel, we really won't NEED another oilspill remover.
I think that it is completely horrible that they didn't realize that the detergents were killing fish and marine life sooner! Ms. Ghazarian said in our lesson that the chemical detergents are only used for cleaning up small oil spills, which is good because there was not as much of it used anyway. However, this is still very bad for the marine life. A solution to this would be to only use bioremediation, with the oil-eating bacteria.
I don't get it, if cleaning up oil spills can hurt or kill more of the fish than when the oil is just in the water then why do they still try to clean it up. There aren't thinking about life at all they just want the oil. Thats kind of sad and we should different chemicals or materials that don't cause chemical reactions, because then you'll save more animal life.
I think that this was a really interesting article! It is amazing that people are using chemicals to clean up oil spills, therefore killing MORE marine life than the oil spills. We should try and find a new way to clean oil spill up.
I had no idea!
@Delilah said...
They still try to clean it up probably because they need the oil. Also remember that there are other methods of cleaning up oil spills.
Oil spills are horrible for sea life and cleaning it up seems just as bad. But once they fully get rid of the oil and detergent the sea life can live healthily. If they didn't use the detergent the sea life would have to deal with that oil forever and the oil might spread to vaster areas of the sea. The detergents are kind of like those antibacterial sprays; they hurt a lot but once its over with it helps you. This was also a very well written and interesting article, being fun to read and highly academic.
I'm surprised they haven't been thinking about this earlier....i mean its only smart to reason out that the chemicals they use for oil spills CAN harm the fish. But, im glad that they are taking in consideration of an alternative choice.
I agree with Brandon F, with all our new technology why couldn't they have discovered it sooner since they are already paying a attention to the lack of fish in the sea and the overflow of fishing.
I agree with Danielle, because we should clean up the oil, just not at the cost of hundreds of fishes lives. I don't know why they didn't discover that the chemicals harm the fish sooner. A good way that they could clean out the oil is similar to what Austin said, just use a giant cotton ball or something like that to soak up the oil.
This is really odd and slightly confusing. But mostly, how sad!!! WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAKE IT BENEFICIAL!??!?! THERE ARE FISH DYING OUT THERE!!!!! WHAT CAN WE DO????? Although people should realize that oil spill damages can last decades, where as fixing it takes less......right? I mean, hopefully cleaning up isn't worse then DECADES?
its interesting how the chemicals used for cleaning the oil will just make it worse for the fish. i agree with johnny that we should find different materials, and i also agree with brandon f, that it is confusing why scientists didn't discover this sooner. i think we should stop using chemicals altogether. this is also really sad. with this and overfishing and all the other bad things happening to fish, this is a really important discovery for the sake of the fish.
@caroberts (with a reference to austin)
They already use stuff like that, they use nylon and sawdust and wool to clean up large oil spills once they get the oil in a contained area.
I totally agree with brandon f. that they should have discovered this sooner because to me it sounds like these chemicals work. Although the information was plentiful, the article was hard to understand.
I had NO idea that cleaning up spills HARMS FISH MORE!!! Oh innocent(did I spell it right) fish!!!
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