From Phillip Manning
Could a ship be constructed containing banked layers of funnel shaped, drip-fed centrifuges, instead of relying on settling to separate sea water from spilled oil (14 June, p 55, and 8 March, p 16)? The centrifuges would throw off separated oil at the top, allowing the remaining water/oil mix to drip down to the next layer of funnels, which would be tailored to separate the resulting oil/water mix. I’d like to think that some of the recovered oil would be used to power the ship and the centrifuges.
Gillingham, Kent, UK
