BEIJING, May 23-Now that thick amounts of oil have washed up in areas surrounding the Gulf of Mexico. Hundreds of researchers, scientists and entrepreneurs are pitching their ideas for cleaning up the massive spill.
Bob Ozer, a Turkish born, German educated engineer, claims to have a solution to the oil spill problem.
Ozer's product is a food additive by-product that is non-hazardous, non-flammable and edible. He maintains that when his product is added to the oil-tainted water, it encapsulates the oil which can later be separated from the additive and can then be recycled.
Bob Ozer, said, "When you sprinkle that impregnated stuff that has been encapsulated and it absorbs all the hydrocarbons in a small compound and it is released back into the water. Then after you take this you can recycle it take it back to the refinery recycle them and everything. The substance here this is nothing changed in the molecular structure or anything to the oil" .
After the additive is placed in the water, it must then be scooped up. This additional step could hamper a large scale oil clean-up operation the size and scope of the spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Since the spill occurred in late April, Ozer says he has devoted more than 15 thousand dollars and countless hours trying to market the benefits of his compound to BP and government officials. He also claims his product has been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The spill has been flowing since April 20, when an explosion on the BP Deepwater Horizon rig sank the drilling platform, with thousands of barrels of oil a day estimated to be pouring into the Gulf of Mexico.
BP has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on trying to stop the leak and clean up its environmental effects.
Bob Ozer, a Turkish born, German educated engineer, claims to have a solution to the oil spill problem.
Ozer's product is a food additive by-product that is non-hazardous, non-flammable and edible. He maintains that when his product is added to the oil-tainted water, it encapsulates the oil which can later be separated from the additive and can then be recycled.
Bob Ozer, said, "When you sprinkle that impregnated stuff that has been encapsulated and it absorbs all the hydrocarbons in a small compound and it is released back into the water. Then after you take this you can recycle it take it back to the refinery recycle them and everything. The substance here this is nothing changed in the molecular structure or anything to the oil" .
After the additive is placed in the water, it must then be scooped up. This additional step could hamper a large scale oil clean-up operation the size and scope of the spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Since the spill occurred in late April, Ozer says he has devoted more than 15 thousand dollars and countless hours trying to market the benefits of his compound to BP and government officials. He also claims his product has been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The spill has been flowing since April 20, when an explosion on the BP Deepwater Horizon rig sank the drilling platform, with thousands of barrels of oil a day estimated to be pouring into the Gulf of Mexico.
BP has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on trying to stop the leak and clean up its environmental effects.
