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Has invented a conveyor to take up oil in the Gulf
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OILEVATOR
An invention called the Oilevator, grimy beaches and greasy
seagulls may soon be a thing of the past —
provided the machine, nicknamed
the "slick-licker," can get to the scene on time. The licker
passed its
biggest test last year when a tanker was grounded in Chedabucto Bay, Nova
Scotia,
and began gushing oil. Ferried out to the spill on small landing
craft, four lickers extended
their long, conveyor belt "tongues" to the oil.
A whir of machinery, and the
absorbent material on the belt spun into the
oil and sopped it up. Heavy rollers at the end of the
conveyors then
squeezed out the oil into 45-gallon drums. In ten weeks about 200,000 gallons of
oil had been lapped up. The licker is doubly effective because its conveyor
belt is coated with oil
prior to
deployment. The result is that the tongue repels surrounding water and gobbles
up only oil.
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