and we re an asphalt paving contractor and we use this for erosion control and asphalt product when it rains washes off the road and this cleaned it up and how we came up with the idea. otis how long have you been doing this. all my life. 25 dn adds. this is fot something thought might work, you ve seen it done. you ve put the hay on top of the oil. put the hay on the oil and you re scooping it up. and lot of people have seen this tech demonstration on youtube, about ten million hits. has anybody called from bp and said bring sm hay down here. why not? no, sir. that doesn t make sense to me, this is simple. there any big environmental impact, john, from putting hay in the gulf then scooping it up. no, sir. otis what have you got this, it looks like a sham w wow. fabrics, this will be the sham wow that will get the oil
welcome the waltham county sheriff, michael, and contractor, darryl carpenter and otis goodman, owns a contracting company and bpcw george roberts, joining me here. mike, start with you, you re sheriff of walton county, you didn t wait around for the state or the federal government to tell you what you could or couldn t do. you guys said we re going to take care of the beaches of walton county. initially they told us 48 hours to 72 hours our beaches would like very much covered in black oil and we said we could not stand around and do nothing. there was no plan of prevention out there. everything involved cleanup after the oil hit, had an opportunity to meet with these gentleman and saw something we believed offered the only viabili viable solution. while you re talking darryl and otis are putting oil in water and you ve got hay over there, ordinary hay like you d feed the cows. why have you figured out that it soaks up the oil. we use it in our business
go to your phones, pick up your cell phone and call them. for that matter, if you have the white house number, call president obama and ask him to watch tonight. because if we can find these amazing methods, we bet he could, too. and we re not going to just tell you some ways in which we could really work to solve some of the crisis that we re facing in the gulf. we re going to show you. and if you weren t seeing it, you wouldn t believe it. some of the solutions come from ordinary americans, some come from some famous faces like actor kevin costner who presented his idea to congress earlier this week. it was hard for me to fathom how woo we could engineer nuclear power and put a man on the moon and somehow not muster the technology to clean up an oil disaster of our own making. those were a science background will find our machines ease toy understand, designed to separate oil and water at high speeds up to 200 gallons per minute. resulting in a 99% purity of water and oil