08-25-2010, 07:35 PM
Dakota wrote:
[quote=haikuman]
New Microbe
Certain radio personality mentioned it months ago to the ridicule of many. PM me to tell you who.
His initials are "R.L." He was crowing about this afternoon. Of course, all he read for the listeners was little more than the headline and press release summary.
Oil-eating microbes is nothing new. They were talking about this when the spill first happened. But when microbes break down oil, they consume oxygen to do it. Vast amounts of bacteria eating cast amounts of oil can lead to oxygen depletion in the water. Oxygen is kind of important, too.