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17,000 Litres Per Minute Oil Skimmer Wins $US1.4m X Challenge

Andrew Tarantola 25 October 2011 12:20 PM

Current industry-standard oil recovery equipment pulls roughly 3785 litres a minute, but as the Deep Water Horizon incident showed, that simply isn’t good enough. So Wendy Schmidt — as in wife of ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt — put up a $US1.4 million purse for any team that could extract 9400 litres a minute. Here’s the winning design.

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