Posted on 05/15/2010 7:13:20 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The US has sent a team of nuclear physicists to help BP plug the "catastrophic" flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico from its leaking Deepwater Horizon well, as the Obama administration becomes frustrated with the oil giant's inability to control the situation.
The five-man team – which includes a man who helped develop the first hydrogen bomb in the 1950s – is the brainchild of Steven Chu, President Obama's Energy Secretary.
He has charged the men with finding solutions to stop the flow of oil.
President Obama yesterday promised a "relentless" effort to resolve the problem as he criticised the "cozy relationship" BP and other oil companies have with US regulators in Washington.
He also denounced the attempts by executives from BP, Transocean and Haliburtion to blame each other during this week's congressional hearings into the rig disaster. "I will not tolerate more finger pointing or irresponsibility." Mr Obama said.
The five scientists visited BP's main crisis centre in Houston earlier this week, along with Mr Chu, and are to continue to work with the company's scientists and external advisers to reach an answer.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Hayward said the five-hour meeting involved a "very deep dive" into the situation at hand, with "lots of nuclear physicists and all sorts of people coming up with some quite good ideas actually."
Pressed further about the meeting, he said they had "come up with one good idea" but declined to elaborate.
The five include 82-year-old Richard Garwin, who designed the first hydrogen bomb, and Tom Hunter, head of the US Department of Energy's Sandia National Labs.
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How f---ing stupid can you get!
What expertise do nuclear physicists have in deep-water oil wells!
OK, how did you do it? It took some bodacious HTML to pull that one off.
“Another thing... I thought all this oil was supposed to be from “fossil fuels”? LOL there is no way all this oil came from dinosaurs.”
None of it came from dinosaurs like t-rex, it came from planktonic flora and fauna that thrived on the vast amounts of carbon and oxygen available to them at the time. The molecular structures found in fossil fuels indicates that the carbon and oxygen had to have go through a biological to form. The metabolic processes are quite well understood, and still observable in every living organism today..... coal formed in a similar way, with different geological conditions resulting in it being coal rather than oil.
Must tell us which are his own eh?
“A gynecologist had become fed up with malpractice insurance and HMO
....
“I gave you an extra 50% because
you did it all through the muffler, which I’ve never seen done in my
entire career”.
ROFL!.... good one, except that I would have gone with a proctologist rather than gynecologist.
Yeah, let’s use a nuke on it! It’ll turn the ocean floor bottom into glass and seal off! Yeah, yeah, yeah! That’s it!
And what about the tsunami and the nuclear fallout?
Hey sending a gynecologist would make more sense... he could design a giant tampon
You know this was a joke... but...if in fact you could come up with a material that would swell and absorb oil but not water and could design a something like a giant tampon???
You can’t get much more evil than that!!!
Nuclear scientists to an oils spill? What the heck is that about? Isn’t that somewhat akin to sending a bank manager to rebuild the engine in my truck? Hello... Mr. Obama - What are you smoking?
Nah, Maya and her gal pals will be used as some sort of advisory committee to provide us with viable alternatives to deep sea drilling.
Just you watch.
What about sending the global warming scientists? Aren’t they the smartest guys on the planet?
"... eh, last year, I commissioned a study of this kind of scenario by the BLAND Corporation; - and did not deem it to be a 'practical' solution for reasons, which at this moment, must be all too obvious.".
( Doctor Strangelove, one of the scientists on Chu's five man team. )
Remember the “Russian report” several weeks ago that said that a north Korean mini sub attacked the rig and Obama would have to nuke the sea bed?
Weird.
With all the experience these guys have with the engineering and geology involved in deep sea drilling Obama might be better served by sending psychics.
I can hear little bammy now.
(LEFT) "Uhh, Let me be perfectly clear. (RIGHT) We can no longer afford, uhh, (LEFT)to pursue a course of energy policy, uhh, (RIGHT) that requires the emergency use, uhh,(LEFT) of nuclear weapons (RIGHT) to stop such a crisis."
The eco-terrorists would absolutely have a field day with it.
“Or - an alternate theory:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n1/origin-of-oil";
That’s not a theory, that’s a collection of absolute rubbish derived from the completely baseless belief in a supernatural god (not just the linked page but the whole site). Maybe I missed the joke, but if you’re seriously putting that forward as science with a straight face then I can only suggest that you put your myths and fairytales aside and pick up a real science book.
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