This has been an exciting few weeks for the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE. Last week, some of our staff traveled to OHMSETT, located in Leonardo, NJ, to scout out the location of our $1M competition!
This summer, the semi-finals, and the finals of the competition will take place at OHMSETT's facilities. OHMSETT is the National Oil Spill Response Test Facility, and is actually an acronym for "Oil and Hazardous Material Stimulated Environmental Test Tank." Whew, that's a mouthful!
Our team scouted the testing tank, watched a practice cleanup in wave conditions, and saw some older skimmers used for cleaning up surface oil. Here is a picture of the group on the bridge, above the tank!
More later,
Alex at X PRIZE
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