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Gulf oil spill breakthrough? Cap collecting 'majority' of oil.
Christian Science Monitor ^ | 06/06/2010 | Mark Sappenfield

Posted on 06/06/2010 9:52:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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The containment cap could offer some greater clarity on the actual flow rate. As engineers learn how much oil they are capturing, they’ll be able to compare that with how much they see escaping.

"Hopefully we'll start moving those ranges into a more acceptable representation of what's actually flowing, and the best way to do that is to get a good flow rate of production because once you know what you are producing every day, that's a known quantity you can take off the table," said Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, national incident coordinator, in a press conference Saturday.

1 posted on 06/06/2010 9:52:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The video looks the same....Tons of oil still spewing...


2 posted on 06/06/2010 9:54:10 AM PDT by devane617 (VOTE THEM OUT! ALL OF THEM!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Look for Obama to take credit... "Our efforts are working."
3 posted on 06/06/2010 9:54:36 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: devane617

The vents are still open.

They are closing them slowly to prevent ice buildup and possibly drawing in sea water.


4 posted on 06/06/2010 9:57:26 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: devane617

That’s what it looks like to me, also.


5 posted on 06/06/2010 9:58:17 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Brilliant
More BS . Market and O boost is the only goal . Have been hearing this every day since the victory lap.
6 posted on 06/06/2010 10:00:22 AM PDT by fantom (,)
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I've read earlier about the ice buildup and the potential to draw water in.

I don't understand how ice can form.

Nor do I understand how water could be drawn in.

I understand the concepts of venturi's, vectors and atomizers .. and I can't see how water could be drawn in.

7 posted on 06/06/2010 10:01:32 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: knarf

Well, for one, it’s very damn cold a mile down.


8 posted on 06/06/2010 10:03:57 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Yes, Chef!)
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To: SeekAndFind

According to this .....

http://mxl.fi/bpfeeds2/

I am not so sure I’ll just take them at their word.


9 posted on 06/06/2010 10:05:10 AM PDT by boycott (CAL)
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To: SeekAndFind; neverdem; narses

I notice the Christian Science Monitor is adapting all sorts of skepticism and caution towards BP’s successes - but were ever so enthusiastic and positive about all of Obama ans Pelosi’s lies and exaggerations about the positive spins on health care reform socialism ....


10 posted on 06/06/2010 10:05:40 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Great for BP. You can imagine much of this technology has been invented and modified in the last 30 days. This is a victory for capitalistic ingenuity.

Its not their fault they were pushed into the least safe areas by a corrupt gummit.

Pray for the Gulf


11 posted on 06/06/2010 10:08:17 AM PDT by bray (No You Don't!)
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BP is doing SOMETHING... obama is doing NOTHING.

LLS


12 posted on 06/06/2010 10:09:08 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: knarf

Not really ice... Methane crystals.

LLS


13 posted on 06/06/2010 10:09:52 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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“I understand the concepts of venturi’s, vectors and atomizers .. and I can’t see how water could be drawn in.”

You’ve undoubtedly seen those water bed pumps that you hook up to a garden hose. Think of the wellhead as the garden hose input. The high pressure jet creates a vacuum that can suck water in...


14 posted on 06/06/2010 10:10:03 AM PDT by babygene (Figures don't lie, but liars can figure...)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s always, always about the deception, with Obama...

HOw can they know it’s collecting the majority, when they couldn’t say how much it was leaking to start with???

They can’t.


15 posted on 06/06/2010 10:10:36 AM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

“but were ever so enthusiastic and positive about all of Obama ans Pelosi’s lies and exaggerations about the positive spins on health care reform socialism ....”

Perhaps they learned their lesson in the aftermath of health reform as each passing week brought yet another story of an unintended/unexpected adverse consequence of the bill enacted. I realize this is wishful thinking.


16 posted on 06/06/2010 10:11:03 AM PDT by DrC
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To: SeekAndFind

>>’majority’

Define “IS”.


17 posted on 06/06/2010 10:11:20 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: SeekAndFind

More ByPass Bravo Sierra


18 posted on 06/06/2010 10:11:34 AM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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To: knarf

Think of freon..... Liquid to vapor. Same principal here. The gas starts up as liquid, reaches a point where it becomes able to expand and becomes gas which can freeze the hydrates. Or that is my understanding.


19 posted on 06/06/2010 10:14:32 AM PDT by deport
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To: knarf

its 42’ down there but the ice that forms is methyl hydrate not water ice.


20 posted on 06/06/2010 10:15:50 AM PDT by omega4179 (www.jdforsenate.com)
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