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High tech doesn't really help with oil spills

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud

Just under two weeks ago, I was sitting at my desk here at CNET when I saw a bulletin online that a ship had hit the Bay Bridge . The bulletin was very short and to the point, and really just said that there was no engineering structural damage to the bridge. We laughed about it for a few minutes and moved on.

I didn't think more about it until the next morning when I logged onto SFGate. There, I read that, in fact, the damage that had been done by the so-called Cosco Busan accident had been to the extremely fragile ecosystem of the San Francisco Bay estuary. It turned out that 58,000 gallons of highly toxic bunker oil had spilled out of the ship and into the bay. And already, the article explained, dozens or even hundreds of shorebirds were being found covered in oil, and many were expected to die.

The cleanup of oil spills is a rather hard process though we are always coming up with new and improved ways to deal with things (which in this case involves hair and mushrooms believe it or not).
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