Posted on 05/31/2010 7:26:47 AM PDT by seeker41
Live Plume feed
Looks like a small flame coming out with the oil plume.I also saw a strange fish swim by,,,
Fish fry?
If you right click and hit zoom then full screen on Windows 7 it becomes larger....(full screen)
I heard yesterday that they were allowing people to go to the beaches but not letting them swim.
That is like going to a bar and not being able to drink.
or going to a nudy bar
Won`t be much longer before they won`t be able to go to the beach, either.
Bound to be all sorts of strange critters at that depth.
It's probably just a visual perspective thing, but this just doesn't look like the oil is coming out under all that much pressure to me. I've seen an uncapped gas well spewing in east Kentucky and the pressures were obviously enormous. It was shooting a plume of vaporizing gas 300'-400' in the air and the roar was deafening from a half mile away. This leak appears to be nothing like what I saw in Kentucky, which, BTW, took them the better part of 3 weeks to cap on dry land....
As part of the casing, have an electrical igniter installed (2, 3, 4, 6, 10 .. whatever .. redundancy) in the event of a blow out that can't be stopped.
Fire the thing up underwater and all that rises is carbon.
I THINK that's all that would surface.
You couldn’t pay me to go to any beach along the west coast of Florida right now.
Big massive black hole developing across the web about long term carcinogenic effects that may occur, anyone ever take a sponge bath with WD40?
Thats basically what will happen to you as BP is using a similar chemical as a dispersant.
“It’s probably just a visual perspective thing, but this just doesn’t look like the oil is coming out under all that much pressure to me.”
Actually, I wonder what the effect of water pressure is on the leak at that depth. It could be counteracting the well pressure somewhat.
We have smoke from Canada today and it makes it hard to breath here. Going to the Veteran’s parade and then spend the rest of the day inside.
What a nightmare seeing the Plume. I find it strange the BOP is never in view. They always point to piping even during the top kill procedure.
Warching one of the rovers just as it reached the surface yesterday and saw a whole school of fish under the ship.
It's very large. 50 feet tall, I think, so it won't fit in a video frame. I believe many of the shots of valves, piping, and dials were on the BOP.
The production of carbon from hydrocarbons requires Pyrolysis, or heating without oxygen, as in the production of charcoal. It's an endothermic process, so you couldn't just "fire it up" underwater.
I believe the bent pipe we’ve been seeing with the splits is attatched to the top of the BOP.
The pressure at 5000 feet depth is around 150 times normal atmospheric pressure. Probably around a ton per sq-in. So yes, it undoubtedly pushes down on the oil in the well.
As the oil rises, the water pressure decreases, and the oil spreads out pretty quickly either on the surface or under it in those gigantic plumes.
But consider how much pressure there must be, a few miles below, in the oil reservoir (?) itself, to be pushing up all that distance through a pipe, against a ton/sq-in. It boggles the mind...
I saw that too. I guessed it might be gas, which is said to be white in color. I don't think it is on fire; I suspect that's just the way the gas escapes into the water from the pipe. But I'm not an expert... just a FReeper...
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