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.
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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.
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.
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.
God created oil.
On CNN this morning, the former president of Shell said supertankers fitted with huge valves & pumps were used 20 years ago to clean up a big oil spill in the Arabian gulf. They sucked the oil off the surface, then separated the oil from the water and pumped the water back in.
He said the same technique could also be used for the oil plume under the surface just by attaching links of pipe to the pumps.
He thinks BP/Obama won't try it because it's "NIH" (Not Invented Here). That seemed far-fetched until I remembered reading weeks ago that 13 countries offered to help with the cleanup but were turned down...
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/05/06/us_not_accepting_foreign_help_on_oil_spill
The biggest concern I have is for the shrimpers and fishermen, and their livelihood, because of both the oil and the chemicals used to break it up on the surface, and cause it to fall down into the water.
I'm glad BP has the camera on the pipe, too. It shows they're not trying to hide anything, but it will also be a frustration for people wondering why Obama took so long to get engaged with the situation, and still doesn't seem to be too concerned about it. As for his administration's comments about being involved from "Day One", the only group involved directly was the Coast Guard, and that's because they don't need to be deployed by the President for emergencies like this. They were there very soon after the explosion, plucking survivors out of the water. Their response had NOTHING to do with Obama.