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When oil started spewing from BP's Macondo well in April 2010, there weren't too many options for cleaning it up.

This summer, the entrants in the Oil Removal X Challenge were put through their paces in an oil-filled pool. This is what it looked like. This past summer, the 10 finalists in the the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge spent their days in a pool at The National Oil Spill Response Research & Renewable Energy Test Facility in New Jersey, trying to remove oil from water.