05.06.10

Corexit: Would you spray it on your kids and pets?

Posted in Stumble and Fail, Why the World Doesn't Need US at 3:36 pm by George Smith

It’s interesting watching the press stumble over itself trying to explain the ‘pros’ of using ‘disperstants’ — allegedly magic mixtures — to combat the Gulf oil spill. Unable to come to grips with the real world limits of American technology — for so long regarded as capable of anything.

All you really need to know about Corexit is here in this .pdf.

It’s bad. There’s no dressing it up. The safety sheet reads as if it’s almost as nasty as an oil spill itself — only slightly different.

Consider the masses of such a mixture necessary to even make the slightest dent in the volume of released petroleum. The US chemical industry can’t make enough. And there’s no way to ship enough.

This is probably a good thing, all matters considered. Think of using it as a giant chemistry experiment performed by people who have no real idea about what they’re doing.

What could be the outcomes? Choose one from three: Worse, worser, or worst.

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