Oil spill suggestions
- Thread starter Dave19642006
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they should call tiger woods, he has never found a hole he couldn't fill.
The need to give Macgyver a call. He would have it fixed with a toothpick, stick of gum, and a rubber band.
So there is at least a piece of the original tube down there right? And wasn't there supposed to be a fail safe mechanism that basically stopped flow if there was a problem? So why can't they joint lower a large clamping device and pinch the tube shut?
I can not believe that there is not some solution out there that is better than what we have seen so far. How about sinking an old air craft carrier on it? It is very sad that we can get a camera down there to see the leak and yet have no clue on how to stop it.
Actually right now the US government can't even send a man out of low Earth orbit (the moon might as well be Venus), and soon we won't be able to even do low Earth orbit without paying the Russians to take them.
It is pretty crazy to think with all of the things mankind is capable of, that we can't stop a seemingly simple leak.
Have they tried JB Weld? Always worked on my oil leaks.
Have they tried JB Weld? Always worked on my oil leaks.
There is video of the leak:
CNN.com Live
The reason that there's so much trouble with the leak is the extreme depths. It's cold and under immense pressure down there, so no conventional methods will work. Aiming anything from a boat is like trying to thread a needle that's at ground level by dangling the thread from the top of the Empire State Building. The only way to fix it for sure (which is already underway) is to drill another hole nearby, then drill from that hole sideways to the leaking pipe's location (but under the sea floor, below the leak) and fill it with concrete there. There's no magic way to just seal it off permanantly by pinching the exposed part or dumping something on it - the oil will find a way out.
just nuke it! Seriosly, put a low yield nuke in one of BPs submersibles and drive it right to the hole and detonate it. I Can't image it would do any more environmental harm than what's happening now and it would almost certainly fix the problem. If it didn't you still have the same option of drilling a secondary well.
Someone sent this around at work. Funny that these guys have a solution and the top minds can't figure something out.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5SxX2EntEo]YouTube - CWRoberts Presentation 2.wmv[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5SxX2EntEo]YouTube - CWRoberts Presentation 2.wmv[/ame]
haha, so now instead of having a small hole just the size of the pipe, we have a giant crater billowing oil with NO way to stop it, not to mention the blast-derived tsunami that would inevitably flood the gulf coast (including New Orleans) and accelerate the spread of the oil slick...