ACME oil leak fix.
Posted on 05/31/2010 11:05:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Closing the Gulf oil well leak with a nuke sounds like a bad action cartoon. The only problem is that it has been tried successfully before by the Soviets. And it worked Mother Jones reports as follows on the latest buzz from that 24/7 town meeting known as the internet.
Let’s start with the Russians. According to Vladimir Lagovsky of Komsomolskaya Pravda (once a Soviet communist paper), “In the USSR, a few such leaks were plugged with the help of the peaceful atom.” Five leaks, all underground, were plugged thusly, the paper says—starting with a 1966 natural gas fissure in Uzbekistan. That one was snuffed using a 30-megatonkiloton blast six kilometers deep—about one and a half times the size of the Hiroshima bomb. “The idea of the method is simple,” Lagovsky writes. “An underground explosion pushes the rock, compresses it, and actually squeezes the channel well shut.”
The supporters of the nuke strategy are not raving right wing lunatics either. Christopher Brownfield, military proponent of the strategy, supports socialized medicine in the military and opposed John MCCain in 2008. The comment string on the Mother Jones article treated the nuke idea very fairly.
The stakes are very high. A hurricane could multiply the damage of the gushing oil leak exponentially. The damage to the economy and the ecosystem could be devastating.
We are hearing that we have to expect 2 more months of possibly increased oil spill. Can we wait? Is BP protecting its investment instead of the public. A decision needs to be made on using nuclear or non nuclear explosives to close the oil leak. Things are getting worse. A 22 mile long, thick oil plume has been discovered, smothering marine life in its path, according to Yahoo News. Is BP protecting its profits instead of the public? It seems that BP is in charge of closing the leak. That sounds an awful lot like privatization. That makes Obama sound like a right wing Republican. Life sure is strange.
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“Closing the Gulf oil well leak with a nuke sounds like a bad action cartoon.”
Actually, it sounds like my post from over a month ago!
ACME oil leak fix.
The relief wells will be finished in August.
30-megatonkiloton?
Anyways here is a propaganda film about that gas leak in Uzbekistan. It takes 30 sec to get passed the intro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpPNQoTlacU&;
Why would it have to be nuke? Wouldn’t a line of conventional high explosives in a bore close to the well be enough to crush the well casing?
Mother Jones and Pravda are hardly conservative publications in any way that I understand the word.
30-megatonkiloton blast
lol yeah exactly. Its either megaton or kiloton ...unless it was a million kilotons, which would have been......... really big shiite.
Nukes can close off a well 98% of the time...2% chance that the hydrocarbon reserves are ignited instead of closed off, though.
Might make for a bad day...
MASSIVE STEEL RE-ENFORCED CONCRETE DOME
before we start nuking the gulf... could we please try a massive concrete dome? 2 connections, one at the top, one on the lower side, for water and oil... and the dome would fill up with oil as you pump/suck out the water (oil on top of water, mostly). have the ability to heat the hoses to avoid freezing... a long cable from the surface would supply electricity from the tugs/tankers
dome shaped to handle the pressures
low pipe to draw out water
high pipe to draw out oil
electrical heating units to keep water from freezing
lowered into place from surface
could be used as a cap instead of pumping the oil out
just my US$ 0.02 worth
I have always been told it is VERY HARD to get oil out of the earth. Very expensive, very time consuming, very very very.....was someone lying to me, Cause there is a HOLE lotta oil coming outta the damn earth...SO MUCH WE CAN’T STOP IT.
Popular support? We’re doing engineering work by polls now ? :)
lol
Exactly. So, from now on there will be no need for engineers and we will leave all engineering to Gallup Research.
Yeah that’s all we need, to rupture the ocean floor and let ALL the crude out (Godzilla too) S
If BP can get a concrete hose down the hole, why can’t they get several steel I-beams riveted end to end and drop them in. 500’ of beam with a cap on the top should at least slow things down.
This is a horrible idea.
The leak is under a mile of water.
Drill a hole into the seabed, 3 feet wide and a thousand feet down? How many months would that take?
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