Sop Up Spills with Cellulose-based Aerogel

Boy! "the aerogel profiled in Cleantechnica" What a recommendation! Cleantechnica has less technical expertise than your average kindergarten.

The stuff may be useful but that is certainly not a positive recommendation!

From the article, the author "background is predominantly in geopolitics and history".

Perhaps you'd rather wade through this?

Why? As they say, today it is a long ways from use. Most of these ideas never get to the commercial stage. We will see about this one in years to come.

Interesting they specify the absorption as a weight ratio since aerogels are extremely light. It looks like an interesting material, but I wonder if it is cost effective to use it as a sponge.

they say its "inexpensive" but aerogel insulation is outrageous, maybe they have a cool process

First, let's see the runoff between Charmin', Brawny, and the Sunday comics.