First little bits of good news

[infrogmation]

Washington Post: BP succeeds in second attempt at inserting tube in damaged oil pipe

Understand that this is far from the end of the spill, but is a step that may help reduce the rate at which it continues to get worse.

Also, Kevin Costner's (!?) machine to extract oil from water is reportedly actually working in real world tryout.

Comments

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

I imagine people coming home from the beach with a few gallons of crude to feed into a tiny backyard refinery and powering their homes... nothing that cool could possibly happen, even if it costs us a few thousands of miles of coastline.