Florida tests inventors' sand-cleaning ideas
Friday, July 2, 2010 - 09:14
in Physics & Chemistry
(AP) -- Some inventors came with cotton fiber rolls, others with oil-clumping polymer mixes and one brought a specially designed rake. Their task: clean layers of crude oil and tar from a once-pristine Florida beach and prove they have the right stuff to combat the gummy onshore residue of the massive Gulf oil spill.