A proposed solution to the BP oil spill

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Saw a neat article online last night, can't find it for the life of me. Some Kentucky guy came up with a pretty good, cost effective cleanup solution. Was basically a plastic bag with perforated holes, filled with I think shredded recycled paper. You link them together and pull them with boats, and they soak up a couple pounds of oil a piece.

 
I'm just going to assume that since BP has spent roughly $1 billion trying to cap this thing already, that they probably have some pretty good engineers trying to figure this thing out...

Another thread on this board has proven that "engineers are becoming cheaper by the dozen" so BP probably has hundreds of engineers with bad ideas rather than a couple engineers with good ones.

 
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