A bag and a trap. Oil spill invention is a keeper

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 18:42 in Physics & Chemistry

'It's not rocket science, but it works,' a BP official says of Gerry Matherne's device, one of thousands engineers have sorted through that claim to clean up the sludge in the Gulf of Mexico. Gerry Matherne recently built a helicopter from "a bit of this and a piece of that," which made him a minor star on YouTube when the engine died in...

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