A Columbus Polymer Scientist may have a product that could be the solution to one of the country's worst oil spill.
In 1997 Dr. Mike Castle created Amerihaz, ONN's Denise Alex reported.
Amerihaz is a polymer product designed to solidify and encapsulate crude oil and gasoline.
"This can be blown from a jet pack or a blower and you can blow it onto the shoreline," said Castle. "In fact as soon as it contacts the oil it solidifies it."
Castle said it's non-toxic and relatively inexpensive. It won't sink and it won't pick up water.
He also said riverboat casinos have used it for oil spills on the Ohio River.
"It's just a rubber texture mixture," said Castle. "There is nothing toxic about it."
Some people might ask if you've got this great invention, then why isn't it being used in the Gulf Coast.
"It is all Government Bureaucracy," said Castle.
Castle tells ONN that government officials were impressed with the product, but not impressed enough to pay for it.
Castle said he'll manufacture Amerihaz to whoever wants it, but he's done pushing his product. He wants people to see it, to believe it, and then invest in it.
"If they would have used this product to begin with and not the booms, and not the hay, and not the straw and not all that stuff, I believe it would have mitigated the entire incident," said Castle.
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