Nuking Oil Well Gains Popular Support
Check out article and # 45.
[Thanks, Larousse2.]
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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I think we should bring in the guy who designed my upstairs toilet. That thing clogs up at every possible opportunity.
Have him attach my toilet to the top of the exposed pipe, and then try to flush down three squares of toilet paper. That bad boy will seize right up.
Yep, if my toilet can’t get this gusher clogged, nothing can... :)
Fletcher J
If it was a surface well ....yes.
Me thinks this nuke option is NOT gong to happen...
yep ....a whole lot of lying goin on.
Think your chili might be effective? ;-)
(Follow-Up) BP’s dispersant Corexit is harmful & dangerous: READ THE LABEL
I doubt it too. First off another bore has to be drilled and that couldn't happen any faster than the two relief wells being drilled. Then there's all the superstition/neurosis about nukes society has been inculcated with ...
Thank you. I get lucky at least once a decade. ;^)
And if there's going to be a chile cook off I want in on that too.
Yep, yet another potential side-effect-disaster. Or maybe it would just open up a quarter mile wide channel for leakage rather than the thirty inch bore we have now.
Sorry, why?
Nuking Oil Well Gains Popular Support
Check out article and # 45.
[Thanks, Larousse2.]
It would be placed 3 miles down. Small yield.
What was the "yield" of the initial explosion that opened the nearby fissures that are currently leaking? What certainty do you have that it won't widen the fissures that are currently leaking and not getting any attention at all? Has there been a professional geological assessment of the current conditions?
The first reason is it wouldn’t close the well bore unless it were far below the sea floor. The second reason is they wouldn’t want to ignite a gigantic volume of oil and gas.
“OTOH, the gulf is DONE as far as fishing and tourism, “
What do you base that on? Facts?
Like Prince William sound? Someone should tell the fisherman there.. and all the wildlife that is there now.
Just like the crowd that said Mt. St. Helen would cause the area to be a waste land. Life is thriving there now, and in amounts growing every day.
Or the same crowd who said Chernobyl would “sterilize” that part of Russia. It hasn’t. Again, just read or watch all the documentaries about the increase in wildlife that has already come back (in droves).. some like wolves and deer are there in numbers not seen even on the land when it was just previous Russian normal territory.
Eco systems know only one thing... grow and colonize every speck of available space! That is nature and it will always find a way.
So again, why your statement that “the gulf DONE as far as fishing and tourism goes?”
Please cite PROOF for your statement.
Based on what facts?
Incorrect. Sakhalin test was above ground, French test also above ground (atoll), many of our tests also above ground.
The dispersant kill the microbes. The oil is messy, the Corexit is the real killer.
Cite your proof that it’s not. :)
One thing for sure, it is severely damaged from the Corexit. This is spawning season the lobster and many fish. The GOM is one of 2 places that Blue Fin Tuna spawn. There in no way this will not affect the spawn. Are you aware of the number of dead sea life found so far? Have you been out there and checked out some of the deep reefs that are usually teeming with fish?
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