Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100507:16:21:00
Oreo cookie, you are skimming it. that's what these devices do, they skim the oil off the water, we the pending upon the grade of oil. how heavy it is, you use a different type of skimmer. all different types of oil are sprayed from a moving drinlg r bridge. they can test skimmers, various dispersants and even burning. it simulates the ocean and the wave patterns. we all know that oil is lighter than water. that's an average of cleaning up the spill. the oil sits on top of the water, using those booms oil can actually be pushed into that skimmer and then it is sucked up using this giant vacuum...
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