The BP well isn’t sound enough to be plugged. Here’s an alternative (till the relief wells)
The well may be damaged at a lower point than is being shown on TV. Plugging the well may cause further leakage or rupture. BP has expressed concerns about this. This idea would avoid that risk because it would not cause back pressure in the riser. The oil would have to be pumped out and hauled off by tankers at a rate of 20 to 40 thousand barrels a day, and this would pose a big challenge, but it’s not impossible. It’s certainly better than the alternative, which is to let this destruction go on till the relief wells are done, which could be many months away.
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@centralthought – well thanks
Clever idea. 🙂
@Jai666666666 -hey thanks
@datzfast they were using the oil from the hole
I had a very similar idea, only it would be from bottom up, like a parachute. Well done, it is a good temporary fix, they wouldn’t be chassing the oil over the 7 seas and it’s a cheap, and easily implemented solution.
This is an awesome idea! Do a vid on a giant screw going into the hole and watch BP ignore that one too!
@mtbikerak – hey thanks
why not? any better ideas
@datzfast – sure, try it with seawater first. It may work, and that would be easier. This wouldn’t be like the dome (which wound up with a big block of ice in it) because it’s more free-flowing.
@tinroofbusted look dumbass is a simple tie bag solution so stop all the science crap, it aint funny. save your R values for tampon production.
because this is a flexable bag i would try it without added oil first because the hydrates wont stay in place they will float away with the oil
@TomJackson986 – okay Tom what do you think should be done? The oil’s still coming like mad and doing terrible destruction. What do you want done?
@datzfast – it might be all right through a hurricane. Remember at a mile down the waters are very still, even during storms. The top would be jostled about, but that would be on floaters and there would be plenty of give. At worst, it would pull off the well head and have to be reattached.
it was stupid to drill the hole, if the oil wasnt going to be used why did they drill the dam hole.
not a bad , just looks tempoary in hurrican season what then.
honestly do you know that its coming out of there so much faster and more powerful than you even know, and with terrible chemicals that are under the earth that people cant breath. we are in bad shape, and all your doing is just throwing pointless ideas.. I hope they consider this one with a way wider tube though
@LisaJ4Liberty It’s really about the risk metrics which one to take.
I would opt for the short one. I’m sure the gov’t will opt for the long one which is the more messy one. A huge area the Mississippi delta region & eastern gulf area will be polluted w/ oil for long time.
@jibbi4one – I don’t have a strong prejudice about nukes, but a lot of people are frightened by them and would be upset if one were used. Maybe the military could just use it and keep it hush hush. This gushing well with BP in full charge of it frightens me a lot more than a nuclear bomb, actually. I guess that doesn’t say much for BP’s PR campaign!
@LisaJ4Liberty I don’t think the area would be too hot with radiation. Besides the blast area would be off limits to humans since humans don’t normally go there. Except deep sea critters and they wouldn’t be effected that much.
No, the real disadvantage is no company would be able to drill for oil or gas in that area for a long time. That would make most nature loving U.S. southerners HAPPY !!!
@jibbi4one – would this sort of a nuke leave harmful radiation in the area? That’s the thing that has a lot of people frightened of this idea.
@LisaJ4Liberty Some undersea nuke shots have occurred but at shallow depths. We’re taking about a low yield compact device to be cabled down to the depth desired presumably decided on by Geo engineers and nuke explosive experts. You’d want to crystallize a plug. Non-nuke doesn’t crystallize. I would imagine you’d witness a large dome of sea water rise and possibly a small plume but not the typical nuke plumes of sea nuke explosions in past history. Radiation blast in seawater is minimal @ depth
@jibbi4one – you’re right, a nuke could work. I’m wondering though if a non nuclear bomb might do the trick suffiently. If it flattens a good length of the subfloor pipe that would be a permenent fix.
I’m also wondering about what sort of problems a nuke might case with regard to the coastline. I would think some sort of tidal wave might be a concern. But 80 miles out and a mile deep maybe not.
@LisaJ4Liberty Nope Lisa…can’t agree. No one can tell me for a fact a nuke detonation won’t work. It’s a profit & legality issue Test Ban Treaty. People have to realize nuclear detonation can also be used as a peaceful tool. For use in oil/gas pollution prevention, space travel propulsion, and NEO (Near Earth Object) impact prevention.
the film(s) released so far show at lease 2 separate leaks at 2 separate locations. one is a fractured pipe along the seabed and the other a fisure in the seabed floor.
understandably, b.p. and the federal government are not being totally open.
b.p. has claimed a week ago that the spill has been stopped. not true. they may spin this to “reduced”. not true either.
@jibbi4one – the chute would be large enough to have it at a safe distance. It wouldn’t be ripped by the force of escaping oil. Beyond that the pressure will be equal inside and out. It’s liquid to liquid. One doesn’t compress the other.
A nuke is probably overkill. A powerful non nuclear bomb might be a good idea though.
bet all them protestors voted for obama-heck with the oil, al gore said the polar bears are dying
Lets bring in clean energy and take the big oil companies down
get RID OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER and the GLOBAL ELITES…
then YOU CAN GET RID OF THE OIl
You guys are GOOD, join the FIGHT AGAINST THE NWO…
the KEY TO ALL CONTROL!!!!
you will never have clean energy,, the problem is none of them want it
gold,oil, drugs.. second its way to expensive and we are in a global economic crisis.. do you really thing the global elite owners want you to used wind for energy.. we would be too INDEPENDENT… they want us to NEED THEM!!!
‘No more offshore drilling is going to be tolerated by people in the U.S.’
You are kidding aren’t you? These people need to get a grip on reality.
@oryzen you give me any information i will spread it. you want me to help you i will. if you spend some time educating me on some of your points i will listen.
@cjm608 I’ve been waking minds for 20 + years. I have a plan I know what needs be done I’m just waiting for all of you to get on board. The problem is uneducated illiterate mindbots like these guy’s, hamper the vine of knowledge to bear fruit. There ain’t much we can do until a better part society wakes up to the truth. What they’re chanting “ho ho hey hey clean energy is here to stay” ain’t the truth. They are being manipulated and controlled by the puppet master’s. Do your research!
@oryzen knock it off. you sound silly. all your doing is name calling. come up with a plan and help.
Look at all these idiot mindbots playing right in to the hands of the plutocratic dictatorship elites. I can’t believe people can be that stupid. I ‘ll bet you my bottom dollar that these idiots also protested against global warming. Uneducated, illiterate media brainwashed mindbots. If the media tells them to go jump of a bridge to save our planet, you think they’ll do it ?
Wake up People
Ethanol is the renewable fuel here, now, that can replace a great deal of the gasoline America uses today. The first municipal garbage waste to ethanol plant opened two weeks ago in Cedar Rapids, IA. It makes ethanol from garbage- 6 million gallons in one little plant. The first of the next-generation ethanol. For the same money we spend in one year in foreign wars, we can have 250 of these ethanol plants built in a year, and stop all foreign and Gulf of Mexico oil. YES WE CAN.
Petroleum can be totally replaced by hemp oil. Cars were originally designed to run on hemp based fuels. If hemp had not been criminalized, we wouldn’t be living in a world of pollution like we are now.
It does not take a law to correct this. It simply takes the act of removing hemp and/or cannabis from any dangerous drug classifications. This is supported by science. This has been repeatedly proven by science. Once removed, we will see clean fuels take off.
very good idea 🙂
if i wouldn live in austria i would go with u 🙂
but i will build my page and will not stop informing 🙂
its time to change!
do ur part! protect ur planet!
greetings barney