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Friday, October 21, 2011

Robotic sailboats built to clean up oil spills

  
  In April of last year a semi-submersible Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 men, injuring 17 others and triggering what is generally recognized as the largest unforeseen marine oil catastrophe since people started drilling for oil. By the time the leak was capped in July 2010, enough oil to fill 4.9 million barrels covered the Gulf in a toxic slick. After visiting the oil spill in June 2010, Cesar Harada decided to leave MIT in Boston to develop an open source oil spill cleaning robot.I think that these robots will help clean the Gulf


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