SF BAY AREA GREENS OIL SPILL CLEANUP WITH
OILY-HAIRMAT-EATING MUSHROOMS

YouTubes

Big thanks to all the people putting up YouTubes on this project, from all of us!



http://youtube.com/watch?v=mKSq2fyOb40 Oily-Hairmat-Eating Mushrooms Treatability Study Presidio #1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5mpodcYZCuI KRON 4 news - hairmats and volunteer training
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ENPkgAEcDoY&feature=related KRON 4 News On Hair and Mushrooms

Why this works:

"You shampoo your hair because it gets greasy. Hair is very efficient at collecting oil out of the air, off surfaces like your skin and out of the water, even petroleum oil. Hair is adsorbant (as in "clings to" unlike absorbant which is to "soak up.") There are over 300,000 hair salons in the US and each collects about 1 pound of hair a day. Right now, most of that goes into the waste stream, but it should all be made into hairmats." Phil McCrory of Smartgrow.net, hairmat inventor and barber (more info).

"The roots of mushrooms, called mycelium (http://www.fungi.com/info/sems/index.html), produce enzymes that unlock wood fibers, which are composed of strings of carbon-hydrogen molecules in the form of cellulose and lignin. Similarly oil and most petroleum products are held together by these same molecular bonds. The mushroom mycelium breaks these bonds, and then re-constructs the oil into carbohydrates (fungal sugars) that make up the mushroom's physical structures." Paul Stamets, Fungi.com

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BelfLIJErek Paul Stamets' Washington State Diesel Oil and Mushroom Study
http://youtube.com/watch?v=II4uaZZm2Ac&feature=related - surfer describes oil first day
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FGDFEfDV7YE&feature=related - how the official crews cleaned up
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZAC5C9t7UpU&feature=related - hairmats and Exxon Valdez on Dateline NBC
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mXSaEBespgs&feature=related - hairmat demo