X Challenge Names Winner of Spill Cleanup Contest

Second place winner NOFI of Norway demonstrated technology that extracted 2,712 gallons per minute with an efficiency rating of 83 percent oil to water. But ... Team Elastec/American Marine (blew away) the competition ... recovering 4,670 gallons per minute at efficiencies averaging 89.5 percent. ... In just one year’s dedicated time, NOFI found a way to double the efficiency of the industry’s best available surface oil skimmers. Elastec/American Marine tripled it, doing more in a handful of months than private industry had done in the two decades since the Exxon Valdez disaster. See test results. (From www.popsci.com By Rebecca Boyle and Clay Dillow Posted 10.11.2011)

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