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Timeline to indicate that this thing, that technology is worthwhile for further investment. >> and that most of the technology, most of the resources, most of the research done happened in the late '70s and '80s. it hasn't happened since then. they've been too busy counting their money. >> well, so the investments that could be made by bp and other petroleum for boom and technologies, if you think about it in terms of product development, the timelines for product development can stretch from years to decades. >> yeah. >> we certainly have had the time. we've had plenty of lessons learned sinc...

Coastal marsh ecology. >> happy to be here. >> this isn't right, right? >> no. no, it's not doing its job as deployed and as designed. would you hope it would be anchored in place and that even under inclement weather conditions and we're not actually having all that bad weather today. >> yeah. >> a couple mile an hour winds, can you see that it gets pushed off the anchors and pushed out on to the marshlands. >> when we think of the different technology that's available, not to stop that blownout well, not even to prevent that blownout well from blowing out, not even to try to get the oil out ...

Past this absorbant boom. some of it is clearly soiled and it's playing some role. but we didn't drive over boom to get here, there's obviously a big break in it and this stuff is not set up in a way that looks like it can be effective. booming isn't worthless, it's just being done in a worthless way, right? >> it's not as efficient as the technology could provide. what we need are more people out on the ground implementing and maintain being the boom in place. and there's certainly thousands of people potentially available to implement boom effectively if they were trained and if they were de...

Has made the kind of profit that turns saints into sippers and sinners into kings, that industry has made an overt choice. they could have spent those resources, some of them maybe, on developing new cleanup technology, newç containment technology for spills but they didn't. they can say they did if they want to, but who cares what they says. if they had, the response out here to this spill wouldn't be so pitiful. booms that do not work and are not put out right. bamboo pickets to hold the boom this place that doesn't hold the boom in place at the first sign of a slight wind. diversion barri...

Include sending additional planes, boats, skimmers and booms. >> planes, boat, skimmers and booms. so boom and skimmers and chemical dispersants dropped by air. same in 2010 as it was in 1979. the bp oil spill started two years ago today. and one of the shocking things about that disaster is that it made us all realize that over the course of 30 years, cleanup technology, what is available to us to respond when there's a big horrible oil spill, hadn't really progressed at all. we were essentially trying to wipe the oil up with essentially the large jumbo-sized version of paper towels. like we ...