Frustrated by last years' BP Oil Spill response 11th Hour Project founder Wendy Schmidt offered a $1.4M purse to the teams that could revolutionize oil spill cleanup, the website for the competition is here. After a year of design and testing the field of 350 participants was narrowed to ten, their inventions tested and the winners announced. Collecting over three times the industry standard at over 89% efficiency the winning team was Elastec/American Marine Company of Carmi, Illinois. For more details and the rest of the results see this article at National Geographic.
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