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Work? >> well, basically, the oyster machine is like a very large barn door, which is hinged at the bottom. and the action of the waves actually drive the oyster machine forwards and backwards. and you mentioned hydroelectric power. we have a couple of hydraulic pistons on this machine, which pumps high-pressure water. the high-pressure water then goes on shore and drives hydroelectric turbine. >> so basically, if i'm getting this straight, it creates this kind of a loop current between the wave machine into your electric power station and back out to sea, and just creates more or less its own...

How about this? 300 more skimmers are headed to the gulf of mexico to help mop up all of that oil, right? about 550 are already there, trying to separate the oil from the water. the largest skimmer of , a converted cargo ship called "a whale." being tested to see how it can be. florida is far from being out of the woods on all of this. we're now hearing the oil could reach more of that state's coastline before it is all over. chad myers is here with us, tracking the winds. are we talking about that? we spend a lot of time talking about the loop current. is that what could take, what, that sh...

Little blow-up of thunderstorm activity because it made waves right where we don't want the waves, right over the oil area, three to five-foot waves today and the waves have been in this area for the past couple of days. this could be much more sinis r sinister. this could have a much bigger impact on where everything else goes, including the oil. this is what's called the loop current. it affects hurricanes and also affects the oil. this is part of the -- this area here looping around, water comes out of the caribbean. it tries to make a full loop up here -- this one is cut off. but on a norm...

This is going around here, one way or the other, spinning, spinning. and the loop current isn't picking up any oil right now. it's traveling up through the florida keys and out into the gulf stream. the loop current turns into the gulf stream, depends on where it is. >> thanks a lot, chad myers, "off the radar." general david petraeus is back in charge in afghanistan. we're going to go globe trotting next to see if he can turn the tide in that country.

There. you'll notice you have some areas that are shaded in red and some that happen to be in orange. what this indicates is some areas obviously where we have the oil right along parts of the mississippi coast but what's more troubling is there's a chance now they believe that oil could get caught up in the loop current and possibly go to the dry tortugas and possibly the straits of florida and back over toward miami. we're not talking about the thickest crude but some of the thinner emulsified oil, possibly small tar balls. a lot of the sheen. much of the sheen will be burned off from the su...