Posted on 05/29/2010 2:27:01 PM PDT by boycott
Hey! Bill Ayers made bombs to blow up the Hetchy-Hetchy water pipeline and P G & E Substation near San Francisco. Ask him if he has any left over he could spare for Obummer, since they are old friends...
Plug it with something like an airbag from a vehicle, but longer and stronger, of course.
When I said cap off two at a timer....I didn’t mean cap off, I meant: connect a discharge pipe with or without a pump to a capture point...
Thanks. I like that idea even better. No sense in not getting so much oil when we could use it.
Post of the day!!!!!
Is it possible to skim off the water/oil mixture and then separate them? If it is then they should have big vacuums out there sucking it up and then processing it out and doing it until all of the oil is recouped.
As-fired fifty megatons- or it's as-designed one hundred?
It'd be entertaining anyway- as it enlarged the oil-spewing hole to a couple of hundred meters in diameter. :-)
I'm going to go with gathering up all of the hopelessly snarled strings of Christmas lights in the Western Hemisphere, rolling them into an enormous ball, and stuffing them in the hole.
Or something like it.
On a more serious note- I think it's already been suggested- but some sort of hemisphere with big flanges around the base, but with a valved vent on top. Like a brimmed hat. Open the vent so that oil can flow through it as you're emplacing the thing. Bury the extended base flanges in concrete blocks and then seafloor mud, then shut the vent. Bury under seafloor mud.
Something they tried for that toxic Indonesian mudflow a while back was large, concrete balls connected by heavy chain. I would try a variation of this.
A group of plumb bob shaped concrete plugs, in progressively larger sizes, and connected by heavy cable. The first two or three should fit into the hole, and descend within it. While this won’t stop the oil, it will slow it down and reduce the pressure on the final plug.
Once it has been plugged, either completely, or significantly reduced, be ready to pour an enormous amount of marine concrete over the whole thing.
Nuke it
Barnie Frank could go down there and just suck on it.
We just don’t want any more “Oil Gone wild”...The more we capture, the less dispersing agent we have to use, too.
2.5 million banned French burkas stuffed in the pipe oughta do the trick.
There is no nuke option..Period !!!! I know the ruusskies would like to see this due to what Reagan did to them...refer to 800 miles of blown pipe lines...they are still pissed..lol My reason is would you rather have a quarter billion gallons a day instead? More?
Back to the several leaks going on if they can stop that BOP without blowing the top off it is first priority! Slowly is a good thing for if it is to fast ....Bang you get more faster
Where is the drill steel? Well you may be looking at an end of it now.. WHERE IS IT? In or out of the hole?
Where is the riser? Yep it has some problems too....
Plug the riser to fast it goes away! OK have to stop FOX Alert
Something they tried for that toxic Indonesian mudflow a while back was large, concrete balls connected by heavy chain. I would try a variation of this.
A group of plumb bob shaped concrete plugs, in progressively larger sizes, and connected by heavy cable. The first two or three should fit into the hole, and descend within it. While this won’t stop the oil, it will slow it down and reduce the pressure on the final plug.
Once it has been plugged, either completely, or significantly reduced, be ready to pour an enormous amount of marine concrete over the whole thing.
I like this idea too. I believe a variation of the idea could work too.
I sure beats waiting around until August doing nothing but watching the Gulf of Mexico be destroyed.
I think a nuke MIGHT work. It would superheat the sandy bottom and turn it to glass. Although it would only last for awhile until the oil found its way around the edges of the hard sand. But it might buy some time until the relief wells are put in place.
Drop a drill pipe inside or drill into the casing of the well. Once the drill pipe is inside the well casing drop or drill down to the first neck-down(reducer) once past this point, activate an expansion plug(larger than then neck-down (reducer) attached to the drill pipe above the bit. The plug could be mechanical or expand with explosives.
Just a thought
A giant can of that expanding foam :p
30,000 Al Qaeda diaper bombers should wipe it clean.
Pray................
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