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Posted on 06/26/2010 3:56:44 AM PDT by GonzoII
Former Shell CEO John Hofmeister, MSNBC, June 23, 2010: 1:00 Hofmeister: ...
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We have many years worth of data from underground nuclear testing. You need only 1000 feet of depth for a 1/2 kiloton explosion to be "contained", and they have 12,000 feet of rock between the ocean floor and the oil. I think they have a significant safety margin, but they would probably detonate it 6000' deep to be on the safe side. it's much safer cleaner and cheaper than what's happening now.
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doesnt blowing up an oil well make as much sense as blowing up diesel fuel with ammonium nitrate?
Unstable seabed.......lots of salt crust. this will only crush the rock with a pressure wave and if there is the slightest pathway for the oil then it will still make its way out.......I think we need to drill about another 100 wells into this deposit to relieve some of the pressure and take the oil while it is there.
Let's not panic. Nukes are not as dangerous as you think.
Don't forget, more than 1000 nukes were set off just 65 miles outside of Las Vegas and people lived there the whole time.
Nowadays, nukes can be 'tuned' to produce lower amounts of radiation and more blast/heat - sort of the opposite of a neutron bomb which produces searing radiation and little blast. Set off just above the hole or near the top, NOT deep inside of it it will ostensibly fuse the rock and seal it...or not.
People have been fooled by the paranoid left about nukes. They say that if India and Pakistan went to war with nukes it would be the end of the world. You should laugh when you hear this and remind them of the 1000 MUCH BIGGER nukes that the USA set off just outside of Vegas. People used to watch the blasts from their hotel rooms.
According to the left-wing environutjobs, Las Vegas should be uninhabitable for the next 1000 years. I was just there and I'm fine.
Deepwater Horizon is approximately 50 miles offshore and far underwater. A nuke can safely be detonated there... but would it work?
The Russians used this successfully to stop runaway wells. The idea is to fuse the rock over the well, thus capping it.
Thats not what they did, they lowered the nuke downhole and set it off in the area just above the zone. There is no way to lower a nuke into this well due to the BOP failure. Set one of at the wellhead and they will have a complete run away well.
Obama's Golf Problem:
Obama finally figures out whose ass to kick.
You have 5000 feet of water and then 18000 feet of pipe. I think the well is about 12 inches and narrows down to 6 inches at the bottom.
Do we have a nuke that small? How do we push it down the pipe against the pressure of the oil?
Are you gonna call Bruce Willis to stay behind and push the button? How else will you hold it in place against the thousands of pounds of pressure long enough to trigger it?
They claim they are collection 25%+ of the oil now. It only
seems logical they can capture the rest with additional capacity. They wouldn’t be holding the gusher back, just
capturing it at the surface with mutiple hoses or pipes
rather than just one with a cap and relief valves.
Not only that, it’s on MSNBC. That means CNN, PBS and Fox laughed in his face.
“Let’s not panic. Nukes are not as dangerous as you think.”
Its not the radiation that makes this a stupid idea. Its the fact that the seafloor is relatively soft and unstable.
It won’t “fuse” the rock, it will make lots of little rocks. Making a gazillion new pathways for the oil to escape.
Interesting info. I think the great fear as indicted in the video is how the solidity if the seabed would weather a nuclear blast.
Are you an oil drilling expert or did you sleep at a Holiday Inn Express?
I would think that this is the case already under the existing laws of Maritime Salvage.
You don’t put the nuke into the bore hole of the well, you drill a well like the relief wells parallel to the leaking well a couple hundred feet apart and the explosion pinches off the leaking well, that is how the russians did it.
we had tactical nukes that went in an 8” gun, so the physics package could be sent down a drill pipe.
People have to be allowed in first.
From what I’ve gathered most wells have no more than 7% methane in them and this particular well has 40%.
I can’t see where setting off a nuke to seal the well wouldn’t cause an even larger explosion and then cause massive cavitation creating a huge tsunami.
I’m amazed that people are posting and believing PBS and MSNBC.
I guess I’ve now lived through enough of these “I’m smarter than you and we are all going to die” posts on FR that I now look at it all with a grain of salt.
Besides, I listen to Rush, who is not in panic mode yet.
I had the same idea to thread a new pipe into the old one, on the other hand I’ve heard that the pressure is tremendous and would preclude this fix.
Sounds silly, but why not ask people like plumbers who fix these sort of things on a smaller scale.
Threading a smaller pipe might reduce the flow considerably.
Nuking is out of the question.
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