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How about a Live Dome Lowering thread? {v}
tih | 050710 | tih

Posted on 05/07/2010 12:55:44 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand



TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: dome; oilslick
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To: the invisib1e hand

I am glad my kids and I are not part of this trip. I can hear them say, “Are we there yet dad?” Ten minutes later, “Are we there yet dad?”.....


21 posted on 05/07/2010 1:08:58 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: the invisib1e hand

It’s dropping....sort of like the stock market....


22 posted on 05/07/2010 1:09:49 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: the invisib1e hand

I thought they started lowering it last night. Been looking for updates all day. No news is bad news?


23 posted on 05/07/2010 1:10:57 PM PDT by Raebie (a)
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To: rottndog

Like a heavyweight funnel


24 posted on 05/07/2010 1:11:25 PM PDT by wordsofearnest (Brad Ellsworth is giving Indiana a twofer.)
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To: the invisib1e hand
Be nice if some Engineering-type Texan can chime in on pressure of the oil vs. weight of the big thingy.

They aren't counting on it holding the oil down. The box will cover the site of the leak so it can be pumped from the funnel at the top of the box.
25 posted on 05/07/2010 1:12:38 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Touch Not the Cat

It’s worked in the past but has never been attempted at these depths.

The precautions of pressure and 42 degree temps (clogging) have been compensated for so I think there’s a pretty good chance it will work.

Or do you know a lot more about the subject to back up such a statement?


26 posted on 05/07/2010 1:12:55 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: the invisib1e hand

As long as the internal pressure of the pipe going up is lower than the ambient pressure where the oil is discharging from the blow out valve...yes.


27 posted on 05/07/2010 1:13:36 PM PDT by rottndog (WOOF!!! Be prepared for what's coming AFTER America.....)
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To: rottndog

oh.


28 posted on 05/07/2010 1:14:17 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand ("gentle when stroked, fierce when provoked")
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To: the invisib1e hand

Sort of recalls an old-fashioned barn-raising, isn't it?

Bar-b-que afterwards?

29 posted on 05/07/2010 1:15:36 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand ("gentle when stroked, fierce when provoked")
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To: Raebie

“I thought they started lowering it last night. Been looking for updates all day. No news is bad news?”

Last I read the “dome” had reached within a few meters of the sea floor and the robot subs were slowly positioning it over the main leak.

A quote from one engineer stated: “if all goes well it should be functioning sometime Sunday.


30 posted on 05/07/2010 1:18:01 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: rottndog

I’m sure there are a ton of cameras down there. I’d be glued to them if they’d only share...


31 posted on 05/07/2010 1:18:20 PM PDT by Raebie (a)
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To: wordsofearnest
Like a heavyweight funnel

Yup. I wonder if they will still be pumping the oil at the top, or if they will just let if free flow to the oil tankers?
32 posted on 05/07/2010 1:18:27 PM PDT by rottndog (WOOF!!! Be prepared for what's coming AFTER America.....)
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To: Raebie

Have they released any actual footage of the blowout valve leaking?


33 posted on 05/07/2010 1:19:13 PM PDT by rottndog (WOOF!!! Be prepared for what's coming AFTER America.....)
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LOWER THE DOME !!!

34 posted on 05/07/2010 1:19:28 PM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: rottndog

And as long as the thing doesn’t tip over when it hits the bottom, or hits trash and debris on the bottom. Or gets pulled sidesways from the pull of the hose going back topside.
Lots of ways it can go wrong.


35 posted on 05/07/2010 1:21:52 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: the invisib1e hand
Sort of recalls an old-fashioned barn-raising, isn't it?

Dome Sweet Dome.
Be it ever so humble there is no place like Dome.

36 posted on 05/07/2010 1:22:05 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

It’s a joke from way back.

Somebody started a worried thread about a plane her husband was on - and then asked other people to carry on with it, because she was ‘just getting into the shower”.


37 posted on 05/07/2010 1:22:59 PM PDT by agere_contra
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

The debris and footing at the bottom has been pre-cleared by robots.


38 posted on 05/07/2010 1:23:42 PM PDT by agere_contra
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Sure, things can go wrong...but theoretically, the fiziks are good on the idea.


39 posted on 05/07/2010 1:24:11 PM PDT by rottndog (WOOF!!! Be prepared for what's coming AFTER America.....)
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To: the invisib1e hand
Cool video you've probably already seen...
40 posted on 05/07/2010 1:26:24 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand ("gentle when stroked, fierce when provoked")
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