The Gushing Oil Leak Disaster

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Originally Posted by AAReagles

Ironic indeed. This sort of thing will crop up from time to time, as long as there is a vast need for oil to supply increasing population and manufacturing, ambition combined with greed, and unacceptable demands placed on department heads and their workers.

Hopefully this will be a learning experience, calling for stricter guidelines, like it was off the coast of Santa Barbara in the 1960's.

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It has everything to do with the rich guys in Malibu wanting to look out and not see an oil platform as much as anything else. I cant blame them I suppose, but oil rigs in deep water when slant drilling from more logical depths may have help if there is an issue.

Oil is a pain in the @ss. No two ways about it. That said, until some boffin somewhere figures out a way to make hydrogen or fusion technology work, we are stuck with the oil economy....and no amount of handwringing and good wishes will change THAT.

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Originally Posted by schmenke

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.

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A: paranoid bs, it has been done before, working well.

B: So what?

C: Shipping, what they cruise around with their heads in bags?
What happened now is better-- get real.

I have no comment on this.
BULL
The problum is all my comments WOULD get me sensored.

I think this mess isn't going to be an easy Fix. I read on a Facebook thread that people think BP should just whistle up a bunch of tankers to suck up all the oil. Which proves two things:

One, they have no idea of the math in how many barrels are out there even after the first 3 days, and two, I guess they figure BP could just phone "tankers r us" and they would be on site in about 2 days.

The amount of oil in the Gulf is SO vast, and was just after a few days, that there is likely about 20 or 30 tankers of oil out there easily and to try to suck up all that up and not also suck a whack of seawater would be impossible. There isn't enough tankers in the world....

Can you imagine what will happen to fuel supplies and prices world wide once some idiot tries to divert even a small portion of the world's tanker fleet to act as stand-by waste oil storage receipients? In addition, any abrasive trash in the vacuumed oil will act as liquid sandpaper on pump seals and impellers. Fliter replacement will be a full time job. The tankers would probably have more maintainence down time than operational time.

There is one extremely dangerous possible solution that quite likely is technically impossible. That is a controlled explosion to seal the pipe. The depth and pressure of the water quite possibly would stop that method from working and could even create and larger hole for the oil to escape from.
That is a very tricky procedure even on land.

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Originally Posted by Fiero 5.7

Can you imagine what will happen to fuel supplies and prices world wide once some idiot tries to divert even a small portion of the world's tanker fleet to act as stand-by waste oil storage receipients? In addition, any abrasive trash in the vacuumed oil will act as liquid sandpaper on pump seals and impellers. Fliter replacement will be a full time job. The tankers would probably have more maintainence down time than operational time.

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There you go having knowledge of the oil business. See, all those talk show hosts and people who have all the answers don't like guys like you.

BTW..what the FRACK flag are you flying now????

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Originally Posted by Easy Drifter

There is one extremely dangerous possible solution that quite likely is technically impossible. That is a controlled explosion to seal the pipe. The depth and pressure of the water quite possibly would stop that method from working and could even create and larger hole for the oil to escape from.
That is a very tricky procedure even on land.

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Apparnetly the Russians let a suitcase style nuke go on a well head once to stop a leak....

5 bucks says if Obama wasn't in the White House, the option would still be on the table..I am just sayin......

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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa

BTW..what the FRACK flag are you flying now????

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I woke up one morning and found my once strong, prosperous country now ruled, not by the people, but by an unqualified, incompetent black man that by design and intent or inability is systematically destroying everything that made this country prosperous and strong. Once he gets his next Supreme Court appointment completed, he will continue to try to create situations of such civil unrest that he will be able to declare Martial Law with the complete backing of the Supreme Court. There will be no presidential election in 2012.

In recognition of my new status as a 5th world African nation, I fly the flag of my sister country, Zimbabwe.

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Originally Posted by Fiero 5.7

I woke up one morning and found my once strong, prosperous country now ruled, not by the people, but by an unqualified, incompetent black man that by design and intent or inability is systematically destroying everything that made this country prosperous and strong. Once he gets his next Supreme Court appointment completed, he will continue to try to create situations of such civil unrest that he will be able to declare Martial Law with the complete backing of the Supreme Court. There will be no presidential election in 2012.

In recognition of my new status as a 5th world African nation, I fly the flag of my sister country, Zimbabwe.

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Fiero...I am gob smacked...and it is a brilliant theory....and for that, I salute you..lol You know, you can move up here. Canada is inching towards the right every day...librealism here has ran its course...and it starting to erode...