I work for an oil spill response company and we purchase and use their products on every job. From first hand experience I can say that I am impressed on how their stuff works. Seeing a drum skimmer pick up an oil cut of over 99% is always awesome. Keep up the good work

watching all the other competitor videos. These guys definitely are the best.

Congratulations, Elastec! Well done.

one group of elite engineers, great job !!!

That amazing, these guys deserve a noble prize. The only better solution I've seen is the bacteria that eat oil and turn it into safe compounds, but that is extremely expensive. This is the only practical solution for oil spills in the ocean. Good work, you guys rock.

We need this right now in Tauranga, New Zealand.

science = magic. period.

@robertbohrer7501

10 жыл бұрын

No, magic = magic. Science = the very opposite of magic.

@blindfireAK40

10 жыл бұрын

Robert Bohrer "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" -Arthur C. Clarke

@bjorn2840

10 жыл бұрын

Sean Draper - Michael Scott

@robertbohrer7501

10 жыл бұрын

Sean Draper Tongue-in-cheek, of course. ;)

@lineikatabs

10 жыл бұрын

Sean Draper exactly what i meant.

The really intelligent solution would be to incorporate several of the new technologies with the Elastec skimmer.

People should be investing more in things like this. Wonderful!

Elegant solution is an understatement. This is brilliant. Real world engineering solution for the win.

Amazing God bless Wendy Schmidt & innovation she inspires

LOVE IT. Posted this to Facebook.

Genius idea, completely different from all the other contestants.

A very interesting, simple yet clever solution; well done guys :) Is there any way in which the motor that spins the discs could be powered by combusting some of the oil which is skimmed off? I understand that with crude oil there would need to be some system for refining the oil before it is used in the engine, but it would be rather cool to use the Elastec technology on some form of semi-autonomous craft.

I got a bit excited watching this and after seeing what is possible I am thinking while is might have been the biggest machine they ever built could it be scaled up even larger or is there a limit before it losses efficiency? BTW Big Oil and Gas show coming up in London, might need to get this thing here and show it off a bit more.

pretty cool but what if there is debris mixed in with the oil and sea water??

really congratulation it`s magic

awesome engineering...

Can I ask is these consider as 4th Industrial Revolution kind of technology? and if ever it is on what category it is on nanotech or whatever? Badly need an answer

Aside from cleaning spills, is it possible to just open some deepwater wells and then let skimmers fill up their tanks in the zone?

Great, But salt water is denser? Will that effect it?

you guys should keep the oil!!

"And it does it at a nearly 90 percent efficiency rate." holy shit, congrats !!

Old guy is like, "f#ck helmets, i have my cowboy hat."

Yay for science!

Good work winning the prize but an offshore machine?

wow, very cool

Notice - it took a small group of engineers...not politicians...to resolve problems created by corporations. :)

will it blend!

Does anyone know the name of the song at the beginning and toward the end of the video.

Sarcasm aside, there's no comparison: Corexit disperses the oil, but skimmers recover it.

I don't get what x prize is

Wasn't there a news story about people dying because of the cleaning solutions used to clean up oil spills?

well said.

Looks great but can it compete with 2 million gallons of Corexit? (Yes that was sarcasm...sort of)

What's the music, it's like Epica

Don Johnson at 1:16 looks like the guy from 'Will it blend' :) congrats anyway!

@Ryuuken24 yeah everyone is dead in 4 states because of the cleaning solution.

@joshbeasley311 hahaha :) no. I'm just very cynical that companies like BP won't use any technology that quantifies the size of a spill as long as the size of fines are related to the size of the spill. BP loves the "Spill? what spill?" result that corexit gives and as long as they are allowed to "clean up" their own spill, Corexit will be used whenever possible, regardless of how good these impressive mechanical solutions are.

the music is wayyyyyyy too much

@ViktorAdriaansens

10 жыл бұрын

OH MY GOOOOODDDDD OIL SPILL CLEANING WOAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Heroes of the sea

Using similar adhesion to a Tesla turbine.

@rasmasyean really? that's a serious idea?

wow it took that long to shift the groves from the front to the side, they probably knew this shit long before but hey longer working hours means you get paid more now they get paid even more than that.

@Imakeplanesboom because people are dumb as hell, but honestly there's not enough renewable energy right now to make up for the huge proportions of coal/naturalgas/oil we consume. It'll be a long transition, not something that you can just say 'hey lets do it'

Engineers Should Take Over The World!

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Wow, this industry should never have even existed.

Lets look at history to find out how this industry was established. If it was established by OIL MINING BIGWIGS for spill disaster recovery, then the foundations are right for introducing this industry. What are they saying that Oil mining this world in greed for profit is alright coz they can recover spills, more explaining needed. Or is this historically foundationally established by inventors with genuine intentions?

Corporations= 1 Occupy Wall Street= 0

i find it incredible that they've been making a buisiness of this for 20 years... its disgusting to think we have enough oil f*ck ups to support a buisiness with 100 employees... but fantastic tech, well done Elastec.

listen, from 3:46

@rasmasyean ....

wow. pretty damned impressive! too bad I already thought about that a long time ago! Where's my prize! :D

4:50 has too many TF2 Engies

And its a small business. So look for Halibertan or another big company to try to buy them out or pass legislation making t harder for them to do this. On day we will make our governments understand that competition is the best way. And understand that competition will try to win. No matter what it takes. So they are ONLY supposed to keep people honest. Not rig the game for friends.

@chroniclerofthe70s Well yea, technologies exist. But that doesn't mean they're necesasrily better than this in every way. Chemistry won't solve all your problems. What about an oiltanker spill. High concentration of oil in a small region. What's wrong with a more efficient skimmer? It's not a cure-all for your sub-surface sludge, but it's still a welcome application.

@joshbeasley311 rofl i love you hahahahahahahaha

This is capitalism!

yeah let's keep up the good job that pays millions... spill some more oil in the seas so these people can keep buying their ferraris..

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