Posted on 05/30/2010 10:53:41 AM PDT by joesjane
So I am sitting here in Baton Rouge thinking about he oil spill. Of course everyone here is worried. I love what God has created. The oceans, the mountains, nature. Numerous families in my subdivision derive their income from oil in the Gulf. I am far from an environmental kook. I grew up in Oregon and saw what happened to families and industry from the spotted owl fiasco but enough is enough! The gulf is dying and obama is playing golf? Maybe from now on we should say he is playing gulf. Here is my question to my brilliant brothers and sisters on FR. I have heard there are ships capable of drawing in the oil contaminated water, filtering the water, capturing the oil and returning the water to the gulf. WHY hasn't obama brought them in if that ability exists? Second question....why haven't they bombed the well? I am no nuclear scientist but couldn't we detonate a small nuke or conventional weapon to collapse the well? I have had it with the ineptitude. obama's admin gave BP waivers and BP didn't follow up on warning signs that there was a mechanical problem. BP wouldn't be drilling that far out if the enviro weenies hadn't driven them out there. The people of the Gulf region are screwed!
God created oil, too.
The nuke option - and why it is a bad idea - has been discussed on every BP thread we have. No reason to start a new one.
Short version: the rock the oil is in is fragile. A nuke would result in five or six big leaks instead of the one we’re dealing with.
I have heard there are ships capable of drawing in the oil contaminated water, filtering the water, capturing the oil and returning the water to the gulf.
___________
Yes, they can. Why they won’t, I have no clue. BP and the Coast Guard(under instructions from the Kenyan in chief) are most interested in hiding it. That’s all they care about. Disperants as toxic if not more so, than the oil the great hiders... for now...but it will show up and many years, decades, maybe a generation from now we will be seeing the results of this toxic soup.
thank you for the education!
WHY hasn't obama brought them in if that ability exists?
My thinking on that is -- this is BP's responsibility, since they were in charge of this operation and it's their company who stood to benefit if everything went well.
And since it didn't go well, the the main company who is in charge over everying (which I take to be BP) is the one who must take care of everything.
Second question....why haven't they bombed the well? I am no nuclear scientist but couldn't we detonate a small nuke or conventional weapon to collapse the well?
I was reading something about that from someone (in another thread) who is in the oil industry and they were saying that while it's now coming from one place (i.e., the drill site), a nuclear weapon would probably fracture the whole thing and make it so that the oil then would escape from multiple sites -- too many to ever control at that point. So, it would turn something, in which it is possible to get control over -- into something which would then be impossible to control and it would be emptying out from then on.
http://gothamist.com/2010/05/20/video_kevin_costners_sweet_oil_cent.php Kevin Costner explains his centrifuge. IT WORKS! And he is being totally ignored by our Federal Gov’t. WHY???
An old man told my husband that anyone with a boat can do this. You get tanks, pump in the oily water, the oil rises and then you pump out the water from the bottom.
I agree that they should bear the burden of the cost but he could get it moving....for the love of god at this point we really can’t wait to figure out who will pay for it, get the equip there and the personnel and we will bill the,. Just my opinion.
Skimmers have been doing this from the first few days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5ocAAPVPcw&feature=player_embedded
Anyway, I assume the great pressure the oil and gas is under in the well, does not make it prone to a fusion reaction if a nuke were used.
drat!
God created oil.
Cause he only has eight machines and they have never been tested in the open sea. I am not sure they have been tested with salt water.
BP Approves Oil Separation Device Test May 27, 2010The machines can be taken out into the spill area via barges, where they can separate the oil and water. The machines come in different sizes, the largest of which can clean water at a rate of 200 gallons per minute, more than 50 gallons faster than the well is leaking. One machine alone can clean up to 210,000 gallons of polluted water per day. Depending on the oil to water ratio, the machine has the ability to extract 2,000 barrels of oil a day from the Gulf. Once separation has occurred, the oil is stored in tanks. The water is then more than 99% clean of crude.
Kevin Costner hopes his solution to the BP oil crisis will become a reality May 13, 2010"Costner's team says they already have 20 machines and could start pumping the gulf as early as tomorrow if BP gives the okay. A representative from the oil company was at the demonstration, but wouldn't comment, only to say he plans to report back on what he saw."
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.