Posted on 11/26/2008 4:23:55 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
1: http://hotair.com/archives/2008/07/14/mother-nature-the-biggest-oil-polluter-on-earth/
2: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2056580/posts
3: I wish I had a link for that one.
:-)
".... Our buddies, our buddies at CNN, they're preparing a retrospective special, ladies and gentlemen, on the disaster that was the oil spill at Prince William Sound or the Exxon Valdez. What they will not tell you is that if you go up there today, you won't find any evidence of it, other than the stupid memorials that human beings built.
"This is where oil was on the rock. This is where the otter got eaten by the shark when we threw it back in there, and the sea lion or whatever ate the otter." Nature cleaned up itself so damn fast. It was such a laughable thing to watch people with dishtowels and Dawn dishwashing detergent wiping oil off of the rocks at Prince William Sound. Oh, it was an unpleasant sight. Of course, the birds got oil on their wings, and it was not pleasant to look at, but it's an accident. The skipper of the Exxon Valdez did not say, "I want to destroy America! I want to destroy Alaska," and then let the stuff go. But anyway, the sea eats oil. The sea eats oil alive. That place up there, nature cleaned it up faster than we ever could. Why in the world this abject hatred for a commodity? I mean, I can understand if you're a little kid, and you don't like peas or broccoli, but an entire political party and an ideological movement has now targeted oil as as big a threat to this country as conservative Republicans are! It's hard to get your arms around it."
Oh yeah, I think I may have heard that.
Thanks.
The highest point of a rig is its flame tower, which is about 70 metres above the sea
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4576351.stm
The equation is this: Visible distance (nautical miles) = 1.17 × Square root
of the height (feet)
What that means is that an oil derrick 100 feet tall would be entirely below the
horizon at 11.7 nautical miles (13.5 statute miles) from shore. (Multiply
nautical miles by 1.15 to get statute miles.) If painted sea green/blue, they’d
be invisible even closer.
A 400-foot wind turbine would be entirely below the horizon at 23.4 nautical
miles (26.9 statute miles) from the Kennedy clan’s retreat on Cape Cod.
To the point you fall off.
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