Finally someone is thinking….crude has been around for millions of years(?) supposedly dead dinosaurs. The result of natural decomposition. I don’t want it on the beaches and think we should be wise in decisions and not jump to conclusions. It is no worse a disaster than volcanic eruptions…why don’t people try to stop that pollution.
Explorers crossing the oceans documented oil slicks so thick the ship left no wake. Oil has been leaking from the oceans floor long before we began crossing them. This does not even take into account the natural oil pools and tar pit occurring across North America and other continents, La Brea tar pits out side of Los Angeles, California come to mind.
@@paradiselost9946 They can be. Because at some places oil deposits can reach the surface and leak out. We know "asphalt lakes" im Mexico and when this natural leakage happens in or close to an ocean we can see "natural oil pollution" of the sea. But these occurrences are very rare and account only for a small fraction of pollution worldwide. They shouldn't be an excuse for dumping our oil garbage unchecked.
@@Bernd-m2o it is NOT pollution. oil is a natural product of this planet. and so ARE WE. who's to say that what we do simply isnt nature doing its thing, CHANGING things, spicing it up a bit? stasis is boring. stasis gets you nowhere. there must be change...constant change. sure, i dont advocate pouring fluoracetimide down the drain, or dumping sump oil in the gutter... but no matter what we do... its still natural. we have an oil seep... theres shale oil under us... very few locals are aware of the capped wells scattered around the area...
I once had a collection of succulents which were accidentally sprayed with hydraulic system oil. This was the result of an accident, when a hydraulic machine outside the house ruptured its oil pipes and sprayed my entire collection. I did not bother using chemicals to dissolve them, as they would cause more damage especially if they drip to the roots. Learning that plastic disintegrates when exposed to UV light, I decided to keep my succulents under the sun. The oil droplets disintegrated and evaporated. They did not leave any residue or markings on the leaves.
Funny not funny I run a landscaping company an use hydraulic machines a line burst an an op continued til the machine wouldn't move it left lines in the lawn burn dead by the oil we had to dig down 6ft an 28" wide
Few plastics disintegrate under UV. Otherwise, window companies would quickly go out of business as most framing is plastic composite. Along with fascias and car headlights, most glass these days is strengthened by polymers. And tights and most cheap clothes have a large polymer composition. Phone cases are plastic. The ISS is covered in complex polymer/metal composites.
OEMs, oil eating microbes exist everywhere. Their numbers increase dependent on the amount of food. I used to raise them in a 5000 gallon tank and feed them molasses until needed for an oil spill cleanup. Once I had a small lake which was polluted by an oil line break and about 1000 gallons were spilled, we treated the lake with approximately 50 gallons of OEMs, and within a week and a half. There was no evidence of any oil spill. The stuff is extremely effective.
Also, someone I know in Houston discovered meal worms eat Styrofoam. Yet another living thing that eats things that can destroy the environment. It seems life really does find a way!
Except we're leaving behind nano plastic that, as of now, have contaminated 100% of the water on earth and all the animals that drink or come into contact with it, then we left radioactive waste all over, LITERAL ISLANDS of garbage and so and so. We are staying as a legacy, fow a very long time.
Exactly! That's why this whole "climate change" grift is exactly that. A grift. They can't even stop hunger or homelessness but we're supposed to trust them to change the natural cycle of the entire freaking planet!? Lol anyone who buys into this needs to be medicated.
I’ve always said the same, it’s like having an itch for the earth, it’ll scratch it in the form of earthquakes, volcanoes etc doesn’t care that we’re on it or not
Likely is correct, still not a great way to view your inevitable impact in any environment. Leaving things the way they were before you, is still and likely will always be a better way.
@@quoudten true, I’m always amazed at the amount of mess left at so called eco friendly festivals or rallies, always food cartons and cans everywhere even though there’s plenty of bins
In the early to mid "80s, bacteria were found in the Hudson River around New York City that eat oil and excrete it as harmless byproducts. In 1989 when the Exxon Valdez incident occurred in Alaska, the cleaning was done as much as possible. The final touch was spraying the area with the bacteria. This was done 21 years prior to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
@@wolfjarlgrbane5771 Yes, I agree we need to do everything we can to mitigate spills but it is not the end of the world as some would want us to believe. Same with CO2 if we are reasonable the earth will take care of it. It fact the earth/plants can take care of a lot more than we are producing right now.
@@arlendavis That is funny, because if trump wins more regulations will drop and fraking is already destroying our planet faster than oil or coal. Yes I happen to have researched and spoken to people that work in Fracking. It is not good. Also does not produce enough to make it viable. Religion or not, I am not going to ignore the fact Robber Barrons are hoping we will just let God take care of their mess.
@@zybch actually you are incorrect. I have investigated and monitored some of these locations, and the oil is gone. The La Brea Tar Pits in California are perfect examples of where large quantities of oil came to the surface and created a unique ecosystem that thrived for millions of years.
The oil isn’t gone. It’s sitting either in the ocean floor or it’s suspended in the water between the surface and the ocean floor. I worked the BP spill for 6 months and the chemical they had everyone spray on the crude just made it sink.
@@musicman0423 The crude was eaten by bacteria and is thus gone. The dispersent that was used actually did more harm than good by slowing down the bacterial growth.
@@jefferyeis9287 the oil isn’t gone. Maybe some of it but not all of it. And I know, I was in charge of beach/boat operations and vessel decontamination from Pensacola to gulf shores for the NRC.
I live in Pensacola, FL. My friend is a PhD who works at EPA. 2 yrs. after the spill, they drilled the seabed looking for the hydrocarbons the settled in the silt/sand. They found none. The natural bacteria in the gulf ate all the oil. In fact, it was later determined that the dispersants we toxic to the bacteria. Had we done nothing but keep the oil away from the beaches, nature would have cleaned it up without us. BTW, the reason it leaked so much and BP didn't collapse the well until they had a secondary well drilled is because the estimated there was 100 billion dollars in oil at that site, and if they collapsed the well they wouldn't have access to that deposit and would have had a total loss. Instead is is producing oil presently. LLOG invested around $2 billion to build a floating production platform and drill wells in the Mississippi Canyon fields, which are less than 10 miles from the Deepwater Horizon site. These fields produce around 80,000 barrels of oil per day.
My company had a deep well and companies like ExxonMobil wanted nothing to do with it. The company that bought the rights from us was BP and they caused the spill due to faulty safety valves that were not installed correctly.
When I ran a sewer plant, one of the things I dreaded most was a business cutting corners and dumping some sort of petrochemical. Then I found that a company I purchased bioenhanced organisms from also sold a product that would consume petros. If I could catch things early enough, no dead gray plant. It wasn't ideal, but it was 80% effective which was infinitely better.
@deborahwhit118 Not a chemical. A bio-organism based culture with a specific target of petrochemicals. Try reading the entire post before getting all self righteously indignant. So weird.
I have always wondered what happened to the enormous quantities of oil released in WWII with the sinking of tankers and other ships. It must have gone somewhere.
@@123payattention I have wondered, of all the water in the world, what is the percentage of an oil spill. I suppose it is obvious because it floats. It also prevents mosquitos.
I've been screaming this for years. As a young tyke just starting out in the oilfield in the south. I observed this happen. We had open oil pits that looked disgusting for a period of time then later you could catch fish in them. We don't want it to happen but when it does clean up as best you can then relax and nature do it's thing.
As someone who lives near the Gulf of Mexico and was able to smell the oil from the Deep South Horizon when I stepped out the door, this episode was do interesting. My hubby works for a company that owns oil platforms in the gulf. Thank you for your research👍👍
I remember that smell just like you did,went outside to have a smoke,and you could taste it in your mouth it was so present in the air. I knew instantly something big out of my immediate sight was going on,and I went inside. This lasted for hours,the cloud from the event moved north to a large lake and settled in the south end of the lake. Poisoned the lake for a time,they still say don't eat fish from the south end.
Around the fist time I ever visted the Ocean. Saw a few clumps of oil and my eyes burned a little, but it was a good trip otherwise. Also motorhead was playing there and I had no idea. Lemmy wasn't long for this world but I managed to peak over the fences from a hotel nearby and see him on the monitors and the top of his head on stage. Those were good times.
Oil is natural, so it occasionally escaping is also natural. Nature has ways to clear up it's own messes, not ours. Plastics are not natural, nor are fluorocarbons. There is no general lesson about pollution here.
Ran a lab in the 1980s that generated nutrient regime for feeding natural microbes for bio remediation. They tried to do enhanced selection of onsite naturally-occurring microbes to reintroduce and accelerate site clean up. Mostly crude oil and diesel, but a PAH site as well. What we understood at the time was that fungi topped the list of microbes by productivity. We also found that reintroducing lab generated microbes and introducing foreign supermicrobes often backfired. In cases it can cause a temporary HALT to clean up - probably while one class of bugs eats another class... Interesting, keep at these topics.
Clever i have always gently wondered where oil spills go to as for years ships always dumped into the sea yet the sea was always clean eventually. With more research we might be able to feed the microbes in the ocean and deal with some of our waste. Well done microbes.
100% they have even found them living in a nuclear rod cooling thank! Totally amazing . There would probably be more of them on us the us on the planet!?
@@sarah.s.flanagan sure. Also there were much more disruptive species on earth during the history. And human is a part of nature too, we can't really violate the laws of physics therefore we can't make anything "unnatural". Nature will heal itself anyway (maybe after humanity is extinct), but we need to watch out not to make our own life on earth unbearable. Though I doubt we have enough collective intelligence to control the global changes.
@@sarah.s.flanaganwhat are you talking about oil seeps out from the ocean all the time, read a book. Humans have very little impact on this planet than what you might think.
I used to be in mining. Every mine site had bio-farms where we we dumped contaminated soil from hydrocarbon spills. I never knew quite how it worked until watching this video.
Part of the reason the Bacteria does this is that huge areas of the gulf of Mexico seafloor is covered with Oil an gas that is frozen in place on the sea floor. An in several places the western florida Continental shelf there is oil leaking directly out of the Escarpment wall.
What amazes me is how a video this long can go on and on about an amazing process set up by God himself and not one mention to give him the glory he deserves...Praise the Lord he designed it all!!!
@@jefferyeis9287 Overnutrification (eutriphication) can also become a problem, and some substances are toxic, even though it all eventually gets recycled back into the earth.
@@L6FT All evolving systems experience episodes of imbalance, this is due to an ever changing environment. Spring floods bring rapid devastating destruction, for a short period of time, but just as quickly nature finds a new equilibrium and things return to either the previous normal, or an entirely new state of equilibrium. Nature does not like a vacuum, wasted resources, or over exploitation. A meandering stream can turn into a raging inferno, but will soon restore itself to its normal meandering ways as soon as the excess energy that was introduced re-balances the course of the stream with the resistance of the material it must move through. Everything in nature has something that feeds on it, nothing is immune to natural consumption or redistribution. Mountains erode, grasslands turn into forests, Geo-thermal vents support life, bacteria live in boiling oil. Everything is food for something, and nothing lasts forever.
@@jefferyeis9287 True. There are also delicate balances in place, sometimes things get pushed to the extreme where things die off. We learn from hindsight, and so time will tell what worked and what didn't. That's why time tested methods are more sound, and important to be observant and present when new things present themselves. Like a good relationship, not being in a rush, but take our time with due diligence, observing the results of our actions every step along the way, and correcting when necessary. Win win is the goal.
I have a MS in Environmental Geology, and I have taught Environmental Geology and Environmental Science in the U.S., Mexico and the Bahamas. I also spent 10 yrs of onsite monitoring of oil drilling in the U.S. When I was teaching Environmental Science at a University, I would ask my students who swore up and down that humans are destroying our planet by polluting it with oil this series of questions: 1) What was the worst environmental disaster of the 20th Century 2) What was done to clean it up 3)What are the known long term effects this catastrophe had on our environment 4) How long did it take for food production to resume in the affected area(s). After listening to a wide variety of disasters like oil tankers running aground and deep sea platforms leaking oil, I would give them the following answer: 1) WW1 and WW2 dumped more fuel and oil into our oceans and onto our land than any other event. Just in WW2 there were 1,470,776 oil tankers sunk, with the average tanker carrying 141,200 barrels of oil, equaling 207,673,571,200 barrels of oil, just in the tankers. This does not include the fuel oil used by the ships themselves. 2) What did we do to clean it up, absolutely nothing. 3) We have no known fisheries or lands used for crop production that were permanently destroyed. 4) Industrial fishing and agriculture never stopped. Even dropping 2 atomic bombs on Japan did not destroy their capacity to grow and gather food from the land and sea around the islands. Our moon was formed when another planet collided with the earth, yet the earth shows no scar from this event. Humans do not have the capacity to destroy this planet, the best they can do is to make it a little more difficult for others to live on it.
The Deepwater Horizon disaster was the single worst environmental event. More than a decade after the event, shellfish had high levels of PAHs which the US EPA played down as an issue. Even so, humans can still thrive on eating such contaminated seafood. All nature requires is for you to live long enough to breed. Dying later in life of cancer is of no concern.
Parts of the ocean no longer hold life were there used to be coral reefs because of humans. One good thinf is that even though there was a hole in our atmosphere the size of the united states we were able to fix it. The earth can clean its self up anbsolutely perfectly but we humans need to give it the opportunity. I dont mean a complete stop as in opportunity i just mean not dumping stuff just anywhere. Oil isnt what is causing the problems though.
We beyond a shadow have the capacity to destroy the planet. Just because we’re doing it slowly for now doesn’t mean it can’t continue to accelerate as it’s done for several generations…there’s momentum now
We have a product that was developed to encourage the growth of these bacteria and give them a head start on building the colony. They basically convert the oil into basic carbon (dirt). We use the product extensively in West Africa in the Nigerian delta to clean the oil spills there as well as other regions around the world.
Those barriers during the spill well most of them are made in Ringling Oklahoma a very small town. They are made at a company called Moore Boom. Also Ringling is the starting place for the Ringling brothers circus and Wilson Oklahoma about 8 miles west of Ringling and Wilson Oklahoma is the home town of Chuck Norris.
I have said for decades that if it is naturally produced (oil) then nature will do a cleanup (bacteria). Then organisms eat the bacteria up through the food chain up to fish and large marine life. Some fishing holes benefit from this process with abundant fish and marine life. And I do know and agree large amounts of oil spill overwhelm natural cleanup.
You just know this was consequential science after energy companies sent out a call for excuses about why their cleanup efforts are sufficient or really don't need to be done during a spill.
And they were proven right that oil spills don’t matter at all, and were justified in the actions they took, since the earth has a way of cleaning itself.
This has been discussed for decades. At the time Rush Limbaugh pointed out that there is natural oil seepage all the time and nature has evolved mechanisms to deal with it. The Exxon Valdez spill was especially bad because the climate is so much colder in Alaska than the Gulf of Mexico.
I lived in Alaska for a number of years, and the climate in Anchorage is almost identical to the climate in Kansas City. They just get a bit more snow in Anchorage.
@@clarkstarindustries I am elderly already and yes, it gets worse. I can only have meals with ppl with excellent manners. That's scary. As long as we can laugh about it, it's ok, I guess... 😊
Like dawn dish washing soap. You can take a skillet full of oil and pour dawn in it and it turns the oil non greasy. That's why it's used to get oil off animals like birds and ducks during oil spills in the ocean. So I wonder why they don't use barrels of dawn to break up these oil spills, on a grand scale. It could be no more harmful than other chems they use. Plus it's 100% effective.
Its funny how people consider so many things polution, but it came from the earth and to the earth it will return. Some people think they have to step in and "save" everything, more like some people create problems to scare others , and then they who created the issue can pretend to be the savior to the problems.
Isn’t God amazing. He gave us all living things and even the bacteria to get rid of the oil that has come from within the earth! This didn’t just happen because of a big bang in space! My God has everything figured out long before these disasters happen!
5:23 glad this clip has a lot of balancing information in there, I'm sure a lot of people saw the title and have posted oil industry friendly opinions and rants, hopefully they'll watch the entire thing
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, oil to oil, rain to rain. The planet evolves to adapt to our intrusions, and we adapt to the planets intrusions! Neither has exclusive rights over the other. The universe insists we are in this experience called life, together. Respecting that is key!!!!
I accidentally spilled about 20-30 liters of used diesel motor oil outside my workshop, and it soaked a 3-meter area completely black with sooty oil. There wasn’t a lot I could do about it, so I just tried to soak up as much as I could with some towels. Sure enough, all the grass died there quite quickly, but after a few months, an insane amount of mushrooms started growing in that area, and now almost a year after that happened, the oil is gone and the grass, weeds, and mushrooms are thriving in that area. Nature always finds a way!
The reason there was relatively little oil that surfaced from the BP spill was that the weight of water over the oil well compressed the oil so that the density of oil was greater than the water and the oil stayed at the bottom minimizing the damage. Oil is compressible while water is not.
Yes, but one thing is is slowly leaking and another is a massive dump in the middle of the ocean. Lava too comes out of the earth but if you dumped a metric ton of it in a forest you'd soon have an ash desert in its place
Be skeptical, there's a wreck in the St. Lawrence river. When you scuba dive on it if you touch the area or wreck that's been there for a long time. You will come up covered in oil from this dive site if no carefull. So where are these microbes?
Thank you for this fascinating video! 🌟 I completely agree, it's truly shocking how this machine just eats oil in the ocean. How does this modern machine work exactly? 🤔
Has anyone considered that the Lord who knows all because he designed and created this world that he would have already prepared for oil spills? People don't even understand that oil is not just from dinosaur bones and is replenished naturally!
Decades ago they found that crude oil seeps from the gulf bed naturally when a deep sea submersible bumped into a sand bank and crude oil suddenly squirted out of the sand. Turned out that sand bank was there because the crude oil underneath it was pushing up against the sand. That was also when they understood what the source of food of the plants they found there were using since it was deep enough that sunlight could not reach them.
this reminds me, my roommate's basement flooded often and so we kept alot of stuff in sealed plastic containers down there, after a few years however we noticed something odd. something was eating at the plastic, not just on the containers but also everything that was up high on shelves. i had a old laptop down there and this weird grim was growing on it too. just the plastic parts though. it was like white greasy patches and you could tell it was just eating the plastic away. what's weird is that it wasn't like it was damp enough to make things rust down there, it flooded in maybe 5 times a year. i guessed some microbes got in that could eat plastics and probably other oil based stuff. anyways so i moved out about a year later, and put most of my stuff in storage. it's completely dry at that point and i figured my laptop and other knick knacks and such would be fine. 2 years later i moved to a larger apartment and took everything out. the laptop, a clock and several knick knacks as well as the new containers i had stored them in were breaking down from this thing still. i had to throw anything made out of plastic away. thinking on it. i bet these microbes are at the landfill now.
Nature adjusts. It always always has. Some adjustments take longer than others, and of course we need to avoid spills - because a spill doesn’t benefit ANYTHING including ourselves. But fortunately, nature gives us a hand when it happens.
people forget just how powerful mother nature really is. anyone who thinks we have control over the future of this planet we live on is severely misguided. we can influence the world, even if only in small amounts, but mother nature will always adapt, and better than we can
This is NOT a scientific report that has been subjected to peer review. There is no information provided about whether there are such reports and what their conclusions are - if there are conclusions! This is a comforting article about a subject, human pollution of the planet and especially the seas, that is of great concern to all educated people. The petroleum industry encourages the publication of such pablum to take the pressure off them!
Did you know that in 1946 a German Scientist - the one who later created the recipe for Fanta Lemonada - converted Rocket Fuel for V2 rockets and special fuel for ME-262 jets into a delicious Schnapps? They distributed that stuff around my city for Christmas and my Grandpa, who worked at the Fuel Refinery where the Scientist did this miracle, told me it was delicious. The US fuel company Texaco, who operated the installation for a time, bought the recipe which gave the Scientist the money to start a lemonade company to create and produce and sell Fanta, which was basically made from Fruit-Leftovers, which was later aquired by Coca Cola.
I calculated the ocean current flowing into the Gulf of Mexico via the Yucatan Channel ... enough volume there to dilute oil to one part in a million. No way there would be a significant impact even without bacteria.
Use a micro hole net than can be spread over oil to absorb oil like sponge. Then roll up material into roll onto ship and squeeze out oil. Then use again over and over.
The BP spill was crude oil, not natural gas. Huge difference there. I was in charge of beach operations, boat operations, and vessel decontamination from Pensacola Florida to mobile bay (gulf shores) Alabama for the NRC.
This should not be so surprising because we sometimes forget that oil is organic.
Exactly what I thought.
there is a algea that grows in desiel as well
Finally someone is thinking….crude has been around for millions of years(?) supposedly dead dinosaurs. The result of natural decomposition. I don’t want it on the beaches and think we should be wise in decisions and not jump to conclusions. It is no worse a disaster than volcanic eruptions…why don’t people try to stop that pollution.
Bacteria that eat uranium, coverts u235 to u234.
I believe this planet can Take care of itself and so many forms
Actually oil leakage predates oil exploration, Spanish explorers documented crude oil balls when they explored NorthAmerica.
Explorers crossing the oceans documented oil slicks so thick the ship left no wake. Oil has been leaking from the oceans floor long before we began crossing them. This does not even take into account the natural oil pools and tar pit occurring across North America and other continents, La Brea tar pits out side of Los Angeles, California come to mind.
are you suggesting tar pits are a natural phenomena?
@@paradiselost9946Yeah
@@paradiselost9946 They can be. Because at some places oil deposits can reach the surface and leak out. We know "asphalt lakes" im Mexico and when this natural leakage happens in or close to an ocean we can see "natural oil pollution" of the sea. But these occurrences are very rare and account only for a small fraction of pollution worldwide. They shouldn't be an excuse for dumping our oil garbage unchecked.
@@Bernd-m2o it is NOT pollution.
oil is a natural product of this planet.
and so ARE WE.
who's to say that what we do simply isnt nature doing its thing, CHANGING things, spicing it up a bit?
stasis is boring. stasis gets you nowhere. there must be change...constant change.
sure, i dont advocate pouring fluoracetimide down the drain, or dumping sump oil in the gutter... but no matter what we do... its still natural.
we have an oil seep... theres shale oil under us... very few locals are aware of the capped wells scattered around the area...
I once had a collection of succulents which were accidentally sprayed with hydraulic system oil. This was the result of an accident, when a hydraulic machine outside the house ruptured its oil pipes and sprayed my entire collection. I did not bother using chemicals to dissolve them, as they would cause more damage especially if they drip to the roots. Learning that plastic disintegrates when exposed to UV light, I decided to keep my succulents under the sun. The oil droplets disintegrated and evaporated. They did not leave any residue or markings on the leaves.
Funny not funny I run a landscaping company an use hydraulic machines a line burst an an op continued til the machine wouldn't move it left lines in the lawn burn dead by the oil we had to dig down 6ft an 28" wide
@@jbstepchild succulents have a waxy leaf, so probably a barrier
Few plastics disintegrate under UV. Otherwise, window companies would quickly go out of business as most framing is plastic composite. Along with fascias and car headlights, most glass these days is strengthened by polymers. And tights and most cheap clothes have a large polymer composition. Phone cases are plastic. The ISS is covered in complex polymer/metal composites.
@@Ominousheat They add UV protectant into the plastic in window and door frames...
What are succulents?
OEMs, oil eating microbes exist everywhere. Their numbers increase dependent on the amount of food. I used to raise them in a 5000 gallon tank and feed them molasses until needed for an oil spill cleanup. Once I had a small lake which was polluted by an oil line break and about 1000 gallons were spilled, we treated the lake with approximately 50 gallons of OEMs, and within a week and a half. There was no evidence of any oil spill. The stuff is extremely effective.
Gotta love your name
THAT is very cool!
Also, someone I know in Houston discovered meal worms eat Styrofoam. Yet another living thing that eats things that can destroy the environment. It seems life really does find a way!
George Carlin said a while back,earth will adjust to pollution. It will adjust. Earth is not going away. We are.
Except we're leaving behind nano plastic that, as of now, have contaminated 100% of the water on earth and all the animals that drink or come into contact with it, then we left radioactive waste all over, LITERAL ISLANDS of garbage and so and so. We are staying as a legacy, fow a very long time.
Exactly! That's why this whole "climate change" grift is exactly that. A grift. They can't even stop hunger or homelessness but we're supposed to trust them to change the natural cycle of the entire freaking planet!? Lol anyone who buys into this needs to be medicated.
I’ve always said the same, it’s like having an itch for the earth, it’ll scratch it in the form of earthquakes, volcanoes etc doesn’t care that we’re on it or not
Likely is correct, still not a great way to view your inevitable impact in any environment. Leaving things the way they were before you, is still and likely will always be a better way.
@@quoudten true, I’m always amazed at the amount of mess left at so called eco friendly festivals or rallies, always food cartons and cans everywhere even though there’s plenty of bins
In the early to mid "80s, bacteria were found in the Hudson River around New York City that eat oil and excrete it as harmless byproducts. In 1989 when the Exxon Valdez incident occurred in Alaska, the cleaning was done as much as possible. The final touch was spraying the area with the bacteria. This was done 21 years prior to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Because oil is natural, created by nature, and nature has a way to deal with it.
Well thank god we dont have artificial oil yey
@@LightEdgeYTThere is, but currently too expensive to mass produce to replace oil that’s already there.
Exactly - not a fossil.
Bullshit because we found plastic eating bacteria that can make an excrement for use to create ice cream.
So using your theory, disease is natural and nature can deal with it? I think nature may have limits.
Spills should still be avoided. They are not fast enough to keep other life safe.
Of coarse... But God knew what he created would be up against and created mechanisms that could deal with it.
@@arlendavis Reguardless, it is not reliable enough. As it takes a long time.
@@wolfjarlgrbane5771 Yes, I agree we need to do everything we can to mitigate spills but it is not the end of the world as some would want us to believe. Same with CO2 if we are reasonable the earth will take care of it. It fact the earth/plants can take care of a lot more than we are producing right now.
@@arlendavis That is funny, because if trump wins more regulations will drop and fraking is already destroying our planet faster than oil or coal. Yes I happen to have researched and spoken to people that work in Fracking. It is not good. Also does not produce enough to make it viable. Religion or not, I am not going to ignore the fact Robber Barrons are hoping we will just let God take care of their mess.
@@arlendavis In fact there is a global greening phenomenon going on due to the surplus CO2 emitted.
I remember this, the TV people were saying that the beaches would be ruined for 50 years. In a year or so all the oil was gone from the beaches.
Scrape a few inches down and you still have oil residue. Just because something looks cleaned up doesn't mean it is.
@@zybch actually you are incorrect. I have investigated and monitored some of these locations, and the oil is gone. The La Brea Tar Pits in California are perfect examples of where large quantities of oil came to the surface and created a unique ecosystem that thrived for millions of years.
The oil isn’t gone. It’s sitting either in the ocean floor or it’s suspended in the water between the surface and the ocean floor. I worked the BP spill for 6 months and the chemical they had everyone spray on the crude just made it sink.
@@musicman0423 The crude was eaten by bacteria and is thus gone. The dispersent that was used actually did more harm than good by slowing down the bacterial growth.
@@jefferyeis9287 the oil isn’t gone. Maybe some of it but not all of it. And I know, I was in charge of beach/boat operations and vessel decontamination from Pensacola to gulf shores for the NRC.
I live in Pensacola, FL. My friend is a PhD who works at EPA. 2 yrs. after the spill, they drilled the seabed looking for the hydrocarbons the settled in the silt/sand. They found none. The natural bacteria in the gulf ate all the oil. In fact, it was later determined that the dispersants we toxic to the bacteria. Had we done nothing but keep the oil away from the beaches, nature would have cleaned it up without us. BTW, the reason it leaked so much and BP didn't collapse the well until they had a secondary well drilled is because the estimated there was 100 billion dollars in oil at that site, and if they collapsed the well they wouldn't have access to that deposit and would have had a total loss. Instead is is producing oil presently. LLOG invested around $2 billion to build a floating production platform and drill wells in the Mississippi Canyon fields, which are less than 10 miles from the Deepwater Horizon site. These fields produce around 80,000 barrels of oil per day.
And lots of methane.
Very interesting and informative. Thank you for posting this!
fish and other animals don't eat oil tho
I live in louisiana and everything you are saying is true .
My company had a deep well and companies like ExxonMobil wanted nothing to do with it. The company that bought the rights from us was BP and they caused the spill due to faulty safety valves that were not installed correctly.
When I ran a sewer plant, one of the things I dreaded most was a business cutting corners and dumping some sort of petrochemical. Then I found that a company I purchased bioenhanced organisms from also sold a product that would consume petros. If I could catch things early enough, no dead gray plant. It wasn't ideal, but it was 80% effective which was infinitely better.
Another chemical? NO! just stop corporate greed.
@@deborahwhit118 BIO-enhanced ORGANISMS.
What was the companies?
@deborahwhit118 Not a chemical. A bio-organism based culture with a specific target of petrochemicals. Try reading the entire post before getting all self righteously indignant. So weird.
@@Caden_Burleson It's been about 20 very arduous years since I dealt with them, but I think their name was BioBugs.
I have always wondered what happened to the enormous quantities of oil released in WWII with the sinking of tankers and other ships. It must have gone somewhere.
Yeah fair question.
Don’t say that near any EPA office, they mistake that as a threat and will have your rear!
The Arizona is still leaking oil into Pearl Harbor.
I mean that oil released is less than a drop in a bucket. Plus nature always has ways to deal with natural byproducts. Oil is just 1 byproduct
@@123payattention I have wondered, of all the water in the world, what is the percentage of an oil spill. I suppose it is obvious because it floats. It also prevents mosquitos.
I've been screaming this for years. As a young tyke just starting out in the oilfield in the south. I observed this happen. We had open oil pits that looked disgusting for a period of time then later you could catch fish in them. We don't want it to happen but when it does clean up as best you can then relax and nature do it's thing.
I have used this bacteria over thirty years ago to eat oil in tanks. We used lab grown bacteria from a company based in Austin, Texas.
As someone who lives near the Gulf of Mexico and was able to smell the oil from the Deep South Horizon when I stepped out the door, this episode was do interesting. My hubby works for a company that owns oil platforms in the gulf.
Thank you for your research👍👍
I remember that smell just like you did,went outside to have a smoke,and you could taste it in your mouth it was so present in the air.
I knew instantly something big out of my immediate sight was going on,and I went inside.
This lasted for hours,the cloud from the event moved north to a large lake and settled in the south end of the lake.
Poisoned the lake for a time,they still say don't eat fish from the south end.
all those fish mixed with your good oil
Around the fist time I ever visted the Ocean. Saw a few clumps of oil and my eyes burned a little, but it was a good trip otherwise. Also motorhead was playing there and I had no idea. Lemmy wasn't long for this world but I managed to peak over the fences from a hotel nearby and see him on the monitors and the top of his head on stage. Those were good times.
God provides a way to help us clean up our messes. Thanks for sharing this.
God flipping off the coniving environmentalists. Shame on them.
Shut uo
Has God provided a way to clean up Chernobyl? 😂😂😂
Oil is natural, so it occasionally escaping is also natural. Nature has ways to clear up it's own messes, not ours. Plastics are not natural, nor are fluorocarbons. There is no general lesson about pollution here.
@@daviddurango9562 actually wild life and foliage has thrived there for decades along with a very small human population…, so yes.
Ran a lab in the 1980s that generated nutrient regime for feeding natural microbes for bio remediation. They tried to do enhanced selection of onsite naturally-occurring microbes to reintroduce and accelerate site clean up. Mostly crude oil and diesel, but a PAH site as well.
What we understood at the time was that fungi topped the list of microbes by productivity.
We also found that reintroducing lab generated microbes and introducing foreign supermicrobes often backfired. In cases it can cause a temporary HALT to clean up - probably while one class of bugs eats another class...
Interesting, keep at these topics.
Clever i have always gently wondered where oil spills go to as for years ships always dumped into the sea yet the sea was always clean eventually. With more research we might be able to feed the microbes in the ocean and deal with some of our waste. Well done microbes.
Microbes are fascinating. We have much to learn.
100% they have even found them living in a nuclear rod cooling thank! Totally amazing . There would probably be more of them on us the us on the planet!?
Yeah, let's remember that oil was here long time before humanity. It's a part of nature.
sure, but we're putting it lots of places it wouldn't have gotten to without human intervention
I totally agree with you. Oil is part of nature. Nature knows how to heal itself, it's the humans destroying it.
@@sarah.s.flanagan sure. Also there were much more disruptive species on earth during the history. And human is a part of nature too, we can't really violate the laws of physics therefore we can't make anything "unnatural".
Nature will heal itself anyway (maybe after humanity is extinct), but we need to watch out not to make our own life on earth unbearable. Though I doubt we have enough collective intelligence to control the global changes.
Everyone forgets that life, uh, finds a way.
@@sarah.s.flanaganwhat are you talking about oil seeps out from the ocean all the time, read a book. Humans have very little impact on this planet than what you might think.
I used to be in mining. Every mine site had bio-farms where we we dumped contaminated soil from hydrocarbon spills. I never knew quite how it worked until watching this video.
Part of the reason the Bacteria does this is that huge areas of the gulf of Mexico seafloor is covered with Oil an gas that is frozen in place on the sea floor. An in several places the western florida Continental shelf there is oil leaking directly out of the Escarpment wall.
What amazes me is how a video this long can go on and on about an amazing process set up by God himself and not one mention to give him the glory he deserves...Praise the Lord he designed it all!!!
you are the lord. you need no praise simply for being you.
0:30 I'd hate to be that brain. I don't need my brain oiled. Its greasy enough.
Just think of how much oil goes into the Mississippi watershed each year. From every road and parking lot in the central 1/3 of the U.S.
And yet there is a thriving echo system that exists where extremists scream there shouldn't be.
@@jefferyeis9287 Overnutrification (eutriphication) can also become a problem, and some substances are toxic, even though it all eventually gets recycled back into the earth.
@@L6FT All evolving systems experience episodes of imbalance, this is due to an ever changing environment. Spring floods bring rapid devastating destruction, for a short period of time, but just as quickly nature finds a new equilibrium and things return to either the previous normal, or an entirely new state of equilibrium. Nature does not like a vacuum, wasted resources, or over exploitation. A meandering stream can turn into a raging inferno, but will soon restore itself to its normal meandering ways as soon as the excess energy that was introduced re-balances the course of the stream with the resistance of the material it must move through. Everything in nature has something that feeds on it, nothing is immune to natural consumption or redistribution. Mountains erode, grasslands turn into forests, Geo-thermal vents support life, bacteria live in boiling oil. Everything is food for something, and nothing lasts forever.
@@jefferyeis9287 True. There are also delicate balances in place, sometimes things get pushed to the extreme where things die off.
We learn from hindsight, and so time will tell what worked and what didn't. That's why time tested methods are more sound, and important to be observant and present when new things present themselves.
Like a good relationship, not being in a rush, but take our time with due diligence, observing the results of our actions every step along the way, and correcting when necessary. Win win is the goal.
I have a MS in Environmental Geology, and I have taught Environmental Geology and Environmental Science in the U.S., Mexico and the Bahamas. I also spent 10 yrs of onsite monitoring of oil drilling in the U.S.
When I was teaching Environmental Science at a University, I would ask my students who swore up and down that humans are destroying our planet by polluting it with oil this series of questions: 1) What was the worst environmental disaster of the 20th Century 2) What was done to clean it up 3)What are the known long term effects this catastrophe had on our environment 4) How long did it take for food production to resume in the affected area(s). After listening to a wide variety of disasters like oil tankers running aground and deep sea platforms leaking oil, I would give them the following answer: 1) WW1 and WW2 dumped more fuel and oil into our oceans and onto our land than any other event. Just in WW2 there were 1,470,776 oil tankers sunk, with the average tanker carrying 141,200 barrels of oil, equaling 207,673,571,200 barrels of oil, just in the tankers. This does not include the fuel oil used by the ships themselves. 2) What did we do to clean it up, absolutely nothing. 3) We have no known fisheries or lands used for crop production that were permanently destroyed. 4) Industrial fishing and agriculture never stopped. Even dropping 2 atomic bombs on Japan did not destroy their capacity to grow and gather food from the land and sea around the islands. Our moon was formed when another planet collided with the earth, yet the earth shows no scar from this event. Humans do not have the capacity to destroy this planet, the best they can do is to make it a little more difficult for others to live on it.
Hope those leftards learned their lesson.
The Deepwater Horizon disaster was the single worst environmental event. More than a decade after the event, shellfish had high levels of PAHs which the US EPA played down as an issue. Even so, humans can still thrive on eating such contaminated seafood. All nature requires is for you to live long enough to breed. Dying later in life of cancer is of no concern.
Parts of the ocean no longer hold life were there used to be coral reefs because of humans. One good thinf is that even though there was a hole in our atmosphere the size of the united states we were able to fix it. The earth can clean its self up anbsolutely perfectly but we humans need to give it the opportunity. I dont mean a complete stop as in opportunity i just mean not dumping stuff just anywhere. Oil isnt what is causing the problems though.
We beyond a shadow have the capacity to destroy the planet. Just because we’re doing it slowly for now doesn’t mean it can’t continue to accelerate as it’s done for several generations…there’s momentum now
Yes the cockroaches and slime molds will survive us but I don’t think that counts for biodiversity
This channel’s content is informative yet entertaining. Thank you
We have a product that was developed to encourage the growth of these bacteria and give them a head start on building the colony. They basically convert the oil into basic carbon (dirt). We use the product extensively in West Africa in the Nigerian delta to clean the oil spills there as well as other regions around the world.
Those barriers during the spill well most of them are made in Ringling Oklahoma a very small town. They are made at a company called Moore Boom. Also Ringling is the starting place for the Ringling brothers circus and Wilson Oklahoma about 8 miles west of Ringling and Wilson Oklahoma is the home town of Chuck Norris.
I have said for decades that if it is naturally produced (oil) then nature will do a cleanup (bacteria). Then organisms eat the bacteria up through the food chain up to fish and large marine life. Some fishing holes benefit from this process with abundant fish and marine life. And I do know and agree large amounts of oil spill overwhelm natural cleanup.
You just know this was consequential science after energy companies sent out a call for excuses about why their cleanup efforts are sufficient or really don't need to be done during a spill.
And they were proven right that oil spills don’t matter at all, and were justified in the actions they took, since the earth has a way of cleaning itself.
Funny thing that...
Eating bacon, having a coffee, and a wild WATOP video appears
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Sounds likeTypical office conduct...
Awe snap. WATOP and coffee let's go!
Let's make this the most like comment instead, instead of the beggar 😅
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How great is our creator❣️🙏🏾🌹
This world can heal itself. God made this world perfect.
But made us imperfect.
This has been discussed for decades. At the time Rush Limbaugh pointed out that there is natural oil seepage all the time and nature has evolved mechanisms to deal with it.
The Exxon Valdez spill was especially bad because the climate is so much colder in Alaska than the Gulf of Mexico.
I lived in Alaska for a number of years, and the climate in Anchorage is almost identical to the climate in Kansas City. They just get a bit more snow in Anchorage.
God never ceases to amaze through the complexity of His Creation
There is no way to justify the damage to the environment done by these disasters because microbes are able to clean them up eventually.
Watop would go crazy living on a planet without his precious coffee.. 🥺
So would I 😊😊😊😊
This planet is amazing.
During WW2 there were 1000's of ships sunk and oil spilled, were did it all go? the "bugs" will eat it over time.
By nature you mean the Creator of ALL! God Almighty
as someone who has bad misophonia, All these videos start on mute until the coffee sip is over, Why am I like this ?
I have the same problem. If the videos weren't so great, I would never click on them because of the coffee sipping. 😊
@@LisaKatharina-gp2oj it's getting worse and worse as I age, Highly dislike this lol
@@clarkstarindustries I am elderly already and yes, it gets worse. I can only have meals with ppl with excellent manners. That's scary.
As long as we can laugh about it, it's ok, I guess... 😊
@@LisaKatharina-gp2oj sometimes I can't even eat my own meals because all I hear is CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH just flippsss me willddddddd
@@clarkstarindustries 😂😂
When this happened, it upset me so bad. So glad it got cleaned up.
Very interesting. You did your homework.
Like dawn dish washing soap. You can take a skillet full of oil and pour dawn in it and it turns the oil non greasy. That's why it's used to get oil off animals like birds and ducks during oil spills in the ocean. So I wonder why they don't use barrels of dawn to break up these oil spills, on a grand scale. It could be no more harmful than other chems they use. Plus it's 100% effective.
Its funny how people consider so many things polution, but it came from the earth and to the earth it will return. Some people think they have to step in and "save" everything, more like some people create problems to scare others , and then they who created the issue can pretend to be the savior to the problems.
Heard about the oil eating bacteria over ten years ago and it was being used for oil spills especially in smaller waterways.
Mother Nature at her finest
Isn’t God amazing. He gave us all living things and even the bacteria to get rid of the oil that has come from within the earth! This didn’t just happen because of a big bang in space! My God has everything figured out long before these disasters happen!
5:23 glad this clip has a lot of balancing information in there, I'm sure a lot of people saw the title and have posted oil industry friendly opinions and rants, hopefully they'll watch the entire thing
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, oil to oil, rain to rain. The planet evolves to adapt to our intrusions, and we adapt to the planets intrusions! Neither has exclusive rights over the other. The universe insists we are in this experience called life, together. Respecting that is key!!!!
the universe is experiencing itself through us...
It's wild to me that people think this intricate system of organisms (life) just emerged by itself.
nature: ah silly humans let me take care of it. hey you bacteria eat that!!
To be fair she has had these forever. Oil has been around forever so how else do you think it was delth with??
@@SilvaDreams it seems like everything on earth is from nature and had those forever :D lul
If the Earth did not have self cleaning mechanisms this planet would be barren. The Earth is very aware that it is inhabited by humans.
I accidentally spilled about 20-30 liters of used diesel motor oil outside my workshop, and it soaked a 3-meter area completely black with sooty oil. There wasn’t a lot I could do about it, so I just tried to soak up as much as I could with some towels. Sure enough, all the grass died there quite quickly, but after a few months, an insane amount of mushrooms started growing in that area, and now almost a year after that happened, the oil is gone and the grass, weeds, and mushrooms are thriving in that area. Nature always finds a way!
What about plastic ? That is something that really needs some bacteria 🦠 to get rid off
This kills the climate control debate!
No, it doesn't. There is no "debate". Climate change is real, deadly and ongoing, and so far, no microbes have saved us from it.
I remember. OBAMA WOULD NOT LET THE NAVY STOP THE SPILL. WAKE UP!!!!!
The reason there was relatively little oil that surfaced from the BP spill was that the weight of water over the oil well compressed the oil so that the density of oil was greater than the water and the oil stayed at the bottom minimizing the damage. Oil is compressible while water is not.
huh almost like oil has been leaking out of the cracks in the rocks on this ball of dirt for hundreds of millions of years..
Yes, but one thing is is slowly leaking and another is a massive dump in the middle of the ocean. Lava too comes out of the earth but if you dumped a metric ton of it in a forest you'd soon have an ash desert in its place
@@yasininn76 an ash desert that within a few years to a decade would be teeming with life of all sorts.
Nature is marvellous countering whatever happens and interfering rarely helps. We saw this with a 60's tanker the Tory Canyon off Lands End UK.
Petrochemicals are used as building blocks for the synthesis of medications.
Very useful information. The video is very detailed. Thank
Be skeptical, there's a wreck in the St. Lawrence river. When you scuba dive on it if you touch the area or wreck that's been there for a long time. You will come up covered in oil from this dive site if no carefull. So where are these microbes?
Thank you for this fascinating video! 🌟 I completely agree, it's truly shocking how this machine just eats oil in the ocean. How does this modern machine work exactly? 🤔
Has anyone considered that the Lord who knows all because he designed and created this world that he would have already prepared for oil spills? People don't even understand that oil is not just from dinosaur bones and is replenished naturally!
A most eye opening and informative episode.
*I enjoyed your narration. Subscribed. Sipping on a glass of sweet tea.*
This makes sense since oil is as natural to the planet as water or air.
Decades ago they found that crude oil seeps from the gulf bed naturally when a deep sea submersible bumped into a sand bank and crude oil suddenly squirted out of the sand. Turned out that sand bank was there because the crude oil underneath it was pushing up against the sand. That was also when they understood what the source of food of the plants they found there were using since it was deep enough that sunlight could not reach them.
Oh my I think I am like the bacteria when it comes to the house...slow but steady...lmao :) Interesting show...
It is also where the Great Pacific Garbage Patch goes. It decomposes because it's organic. Like duh!
Your videos are always making my day.
It's like God knows exactly what he is doing
Thanks for sharing this great knowledge!
this reminds me, my roommate's basement flooded often and so we kept alot of stuff in sealed plastic containers down there, after a few years however we noticed something odd. something was eating at the plastic, not just on the containers but also everything that was up high on shelves. i had a old laptop down there and this weird grim was growing on it too. just the plastic parts though. it was like white greasy patches and you could tell it was just eating the plastic away. what's weird is that it wasn't like it was damp enough to make things rust down there, it flooded in maybe 5 times a year. i guessed some microbes got in that could eat plastics and probably other oil based stuff. anyways so i moved out about a year later, and put most of my stuff in storage. it's completely dry at that point and i figured my laptop and other knick knacks and such would be fine. 2 years later i moved to a larger apartment and took everything out. the laptop, a clock and several knick knacks as well as the new containers i had stored them in were breaking down from this thing still. i had to throw anything made out of plastic away. thinking on it. i bet these microbes are at the landfill now.
Nature adjusts. It always always has. Some adjustments take longer than others, and of course we need to avoid spills - because a spill doesn’t benefit ANYTHING including ourselves. But fortunately, nature gives us a hand when it happens.
people forget just how powerful mother nature really is. anyone who thinks we have control over the future of this planet we live on is severely misguided. we can influence the world, even if only in small amounts, but mother nature will always adapt, and better than we can
This is NOT a scientific report that has been subjected to peer review. There is no information provided about whether there are such reports and what their conclusions are - if there are conclusions! This is a comforting article about a subject, human pollution of the planet and especially the seas, that is of great concern to all educated people. The petroleum industry encourages the publication of such pablum to take the pressure off them!
Did you know that in 1946 a German Scientist - the one who later created the recipe for Fanta Lemonada - converted Rocket Fuel for V2 rockets and special fuel for ME-262 jets into a delicious Schnapps? They distributed that stuff around my city for Christmas and my Grandpa, who worked at the Fuel Refinery where the Scientist did this miracle, told me it was delicious. The US fuel company Texaco, who operated the installation for a time, bought the recipe which gave the Scientist the money to start a lemonade company to create and produce and sell Fanta, which was basically made from Fruit-Leftovers, which was later aquired by Coca Cola.
In the future this period will be known as the Petroscene with its rich spectrum of plastic eating organisms
Once again, Nature can take care of itself... Who knew??? God knew what he created would be up against and created mechanisms that could deal with it.
I love your stuff over the years.
this is awesome ,but ,it doesn't mean we should not continue to avoid oil spills !
What about microbes' effect on the WW2 chemical and biological weapons that were dumped in the Gulf of Mexico?
Do people not realize certain seas were highly filled/covered with oil, and that oil was harvested from the oceans long ago, no drilling needed.
The 5 millianth patent was a engineered organism designed to consume petrolium.
A bacteria was discovered in San Francisco bay that was used to clean up Valdeze.
Fascinating & Great News🤗
Gee, it is like there is a Creator and knew what they were doing
Oil is naturally present in the Gulf of Mexico. Sometimes it would drift on shore at Padre Island where i lived
I calculated the ocean current flowing into the Gulf of Mexico via the Yucatan Channel ... enough volume there to dilute oil to one part in a million. No way there would be a significant impact even without bacteria.
never thought i'd be this early godamn
Oil spill?🚢 YUMMY!⚗️🧪🧫🦠 Nature is fascinating and amazing!
Use a micro hole net than can be spread over oil to absorb oil like sponge. Then roll up material into roll onto ship and squeeze out oil. Then use again over and over.
This reminds me of an old Uncle Scrooge story. One of Scrooge's scientists had invented oil-eating bacteria.
south africa keeping tabs on the channel
We can't create anything better than nature has already done
The BP spill was crude oil, not natural gas. Huge difference there. I was in charge of beach operations, boat operations, and vessel decontamination from Pensacola Florida to mobile bay (gulf shores) Alabama for the NRC.
Nature is truly beautiful