14 DAY TRIAL // As Captain Obvious would put it, oil spills are bad, which is why several green groups are doing their best to keep companies from drilling in the Arctic.
The good news is that, thanks to Professor Perena Gouma with the Stony Brook University, there might be one very simple way to tackle such incidents whenever they occur.
Inhabitat tells us that the professor has recently developed a type of nanogrids that, when exposed to oil, break it down into biodegradable compounds.
The latter don't constitute a major threat to the environment, and removing them from natural ecosystems isn't all that difficult.
According to the same source, the nanogrids like getting a tan, i.e. they are activated by sunlight, and can easily be transported, which means that vessels that have thus far had problems containing oil spills at sea will be among the first lining up to buy them.
What's more, they are reusable, so nobody can complain about wasting too many resources should they start being used on a wide scale.