hay, hair, absorbent booms, containment booms, dispersants and barges have been seen as a possible well. there is one technique we have not seen yet but could see soon. oil eating back tier yanchts bacteria. they degrade it molecule by molecule. start off with a very small concentration. biotechniques in sarasota, florida is one of several companies pitching a type of oil eating bacteria to help clean up the gulf. their product munox is made from natural occurring microbes that break down oil and concentrated, fer meanted and sprayed on the oil. a process called bioremediation. it s commonly used to clean up toxic industrial accidents, jet fuel spills and brown fields. oil eating bacteria was used to help clean up the alaska shoreline from the exxon valdez spill in 1989. we are speeding up nature. if we leave it for nature to do