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Originally Posted by racefanfromnj
Ahhhh..Jeez...Would you people give it a rest!!!
Right now there is no form of energy as cheap, plentiful, efficient and CLEAN as oil.
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Originally Posted by racefanfromnj
Ahhhh..Jeez...Would you people give it a rest!!!
Right now there is no form of energy as cheap, plentiful, efficient and CLEAN as oil.
Wait a second, I'm confused. Buying oil from BRITISH Petrolium is sending money to the Middle East? Pumping oil out of the Gulf of MEXICO is sending money to the Middle East? We need to get away from fossile fuels (I assume you mean because of all the pollution), but the Earth will find a way to clean itself up, as it always does?Quote:
Originally Posted by racefanfromnj
Man you need to stick to one line of thinking, you're all over the map on that one
it would be incredibly easy. Oil floats and you can just pick it up off the top.Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonyvop
It is actually frightful we can't implement such a simple solution in short order.
also VOP while I am thinking of it. They have large centrafuge pumps whereby the oil and water would separate quite easily. used quite a bit for gold mining.
Guess you better stop being a race fan. Racing is bad for the enviroment if you havent noticed. What is more, you should take up a writing course, and learn a little grammar and punctuation in the process. I had to read your screed about 3 times to figure out what you were after.Quote:
Originally Posted by racefanfromnj
It would also do you some good to read where your oil in America comes from. News flash, it isn't the Middle East. I know this is tough for you to handle, and I hate to break it to you this way, but Europe and Asia get most of their oil from the Middle East. American oil partners make money on selling that oil after extraction and the money actually flows INTO the US from the Middle East. Bigger news flash, most of your imported oil comes from Canada. I know you cant begin to understand all that, but before you go off on some sort of anti-big oil rant, understand that the politics of oil is not the easy talking points some blow hard poltician has lead you to believe.
The fact is, cleaning this mess up is going to take BP AND the Gov't agencies working together, and lot of untried technology (untried on a disaster of this scale). It is the first disaster of this type in US offshore drilling history. To stop offshore drilling now would be like banning building houses from wood after the first one caught fire.
The fact is oil is still the most efficient way to meet most transportation needs, and will be for the forseeable future. If there was a better way, you can bet one of the automakers would have it on the market.....because the demand is THERE...
Have you any grasp of the size and scope of the spill. It is coming out under incredible pressure from over 5000 feet below the surface.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roamy
We aren't talking about a drop of olive oil in a glass of water. Just the varying currents below the surface is moving it all over. It is appearing on the surface at various locations in long strings.
Not to mention surface tension would preclude it being sucked up by one single vacuum. It would literally take 100's and even that probably wouldn't do much.
The way to combat it is 3 pronged.
A. Stop the leak. That is the most important.
B. Protect the shorelines with booms, berms and absorbents.
C. Use Chemical and biological dispersant and allow the the oil to be consumed by microbes and evaporate
well I would agree however there are some pretty big and powerful pumps I mean to tell you. But they do need to get the lid on
A burn-off is impractical because:
A) The vast area of the slick makes it difficult to control,
B) It would continue to burn until the leak at the sea-bottom is contained.
C) The unpredictable direction of the spread would make it a hazard to both marine life and shipping.
A similar spill occured back in the late nineties(?) off the gulf of Arabia. The solution then was to send in a couple of emptied crude oil tankers to vacuum up the spill. This isn't being done now because of the lost revenues that would be incurred for the tanker-owners :mark:
This process works fine for separating solid particulates from water, but it's not as easy for emulsions. It’s a very energy-intensive process and would have to take place off shore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roamy
Nuclear, but its cleanliness is debatable.Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonyvop
Fact is that fossil fuels supply ~95% of today's world energy needs.