Tech Article 10-20-11 (Robotic Sailboats clean oil spills)

Last year 11 people died, and 17 were injured because of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil spill was known as the worst human error ever made, and worst oil spill accident. By the time the oil spill was over 4.9 million barrels of oil was left in the Gulf of Mexico. Cesar Harada wants a similar event to occur like this ever again. He wants to build an open source oil cleaning robot, Protei. The equipment the US Coast Guard used was only able to clean 3% of the oil spill. Cesar is hoping to use Protei to clean up the Gulf of Mexico, and keep the workers safe from the toxic mess. Video