Oh, BS.
Posted on 06/28/2010 5:07:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Millions of listeners heard on the popular Coast to Coast Am radio show recently that the BP oil spill is a planet killer. Talk show host Ian Punnett welcomed two guests, Jim Bell during the second hour and Minister Lindsey Williams in the 3rd hour, for a discussion on the Gulf oil crisis as well as alternative energy. In the second hour, Minister Lindsey Williams, who once served as a chaplain for the oil companies operating in Alaska, shared what he claimed to be the "real story" behind the Gulf oil crisis. He explained that, in the 1970's, Russia drilled over 40,000 feet into the ground and discovered abiotic oil, i.e. oil which replenishes itself via an as-yet-unknown natural chemical process. The off-shore drilling done by BP in the Gulf of Mexico, Williams said, was their attempt to create a similar super-deep well and access this same abiotic oil. However, according to his sources, BP insiders and U.S. Government officials the pressure from this pocket of abiotic oil in the Gulf was so great that it burst all the safety valves on the floating platform.
Williams went on to allege that oil industry insiders believe that the only method to stop the flow of oil in the Gulf is via a nuclear device and even that has potential for catastrophic results. Bell, who rejoined the conversation in the fourth hour, agreed with Williams about the potential danger of using a nuke to thwart the spill because it could "pop the bubble" and cause all of the underground oil to emerge simultaneously. On the potential long term effects of the crisis if the flow of oil is not stopped, Bell speculated that it could reach Europe within three years through the Gulf Stream.
Additionally, Williams observed that the overwhelming amount of dangerous gasses, which are also being released from the disaster, could be swept along the East Coast should a hurricane arrive in the Gulf. Williams stated that those same dangerous pollutants are in the air in alarming amounts and getting more dangerous everyday. He further indicated that the oil pressure coming up the oil deep water pipe was running between 20,000 and 70,000 PSI. Last night on the Coast to coast Am show Science Advisor Richard C. Hoagland commented on the oil spill in the Gulf. He warned listeners that an even worse catastrophe could be looming if a giant gas bubble that has formed at the site of the leak on the ocean floor should blow. Hoagland said the pressure in the pipe is 100,000 or more lbs of pressure per squire inch or PSI. Both agreed that BP nor anyone else knows how to shop this amount of pressure coming from the largest and deepest underwater oil well on earth.
Williams said "that the dangers from this run away well is a planet killer and we may not be able to stop it." Mankind could be doomed.
Bell, who calls himself an "ecological designer," blamed the oil spill on a corporate culture which focuses on making a profit by way of "taking short cuts" that, ultimately, result in situations such as the one in the Gulf of Mexico. He put forward the notion that the ideal scenario to break free of corporate controlled energy is to aggressively pursue efficient solutions which would make the transition away from oil easier and faster. Using solar power as an example, he theorized that, with good leadership, it would take about 40 years for such a transition to take place.
According to writer Jose Lugo in the movie Armageddon, there was a scene where Steve Buscemi who played the part of a reluctant-hero-astronaut and while sitting and waiting for liftoff, he uttered a profound philosophical statement;
"Hey Harry, you know we're sitting on 4 million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder, makes you feel good doesn't it"?
In the movie, this statement was made by an oil drilling roughneck to other roughnecks; but it says so much about the oil business and today's corporate culture. It's the reckless, do it quick, cheap and dirty routine.
Lugo went on to say that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster is a case in point. The disaster started with an explosion that nobody was ready for. Then the oil companies (BP and Transatlantic) discovered that they had absolutely "NO PLANS" to handle the unfolding disaster, they had to think things up as they went along. They had only one shut off station in one location, that malfunctioned! Reckless, quick, cheap and dirty!
Williams said that the amount of oil gushing from the well is much greater than BP and the amount the Government is reporting as only one million gallons a day. Both guests surmised that the more accurate amount gushing from the well is in the millions of barrels. Why didn't they have shut off valves along the pipe line? They did but all the system was overwhelmed by the great pressure of the blow out.
But the most anguishing question remains, "Why didn't they have a back-up plan?" Things happen in the ocean--hurricanes, sinking ships, equipment breakdowns, Murphy's Law etc.. Why didn't they have plans for these possible disasters? Because no commercial company has ever drilled that deep before this is a super-deep well with a mile of sea water on top of it. The pressures alone at those depths are enormous and may have contributed to the failures.
During the program it come out that there are multiple holes in the pipe and that more oil is gushing from fissures as far away from the well head as 20 miles.
Hoagland said that at the sea bed at the well for miles around it is a bubble and it is growing, believed to be pressure from a huge natural gas build up that could blow at any time and kill many there and in the general area working to stop the rush of the largest out of control oil leak that man has ever known.
If Bill Clinton wants to blow something up, send him a Juicy Lucy blow Up doll.
Clinton’s a nut.
WOW, I feel so much better. Even thought you provide no links, no evidence by anyone that matters. The truth is YOU don’t know this and neither does anyone else, including BP.
And living under the heel of tyrants while you pray for death is one of them.
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2nd
Its the only kind there is.
It has to be said. Thanks. It isn’t dead dinosaurs, folks.
At the risk of sounding really stupid, I seem to remember way back in school being taught that tar/Oil deposits in the ground = dinosaurs+pressure+time.
What is it if not that?
Against Federal Advice Pensacola Beach Opens; Over 400 people sick
So far, 400 people have sought medical care for upper or lower respiratory problems, headaches, nausea, and eye irritation after trips to Escambia County beaches, Lanza said.
By 10 a.m. on Friday, the double red flags prohibiting beachgoers from the water were replaced with yellow flags.“We’re flying the yellow flags. And that means you need to be careful where you step,” Lee said. “Just be careful and have a good time.”
But oil chips, tar balls and submerged oil slicks and the odor of petroleum still were present.
And people complained about getting a petroleum jelly-like substance on them from sand that was tainted brown.Swimmers who did venture into the water questioned whether it was really safe to wade, swim and play in the Gulf, especially when they had to walk through a line of tar balls and stay clear of skimmers scooping up oil just 25 and 50 feet from the shore.
“I only went into the water up to my ankles. That’s as far as I wanted to go,” said Joe Chambers, 28, of West Pensacola as he scrubbed off oily residue from himself and his son, Ethan, 4, in the public showers at Casino Beach. “It doesn’t smell like the beach. It smells like a gas station. There are no fish in the water. There’s nothing alive in the water. I don’t know how public officials can just look at the water and make a call to reopen it for swimming.”
Carol Doster of Grand Isle, Miss., said her son Dallas, 12, was frightened by the oil that streaked his legs and arms after a five-minute swim in the Gulf on Friday. “It won’t rub off,” Doster said.
She said the two were not going to get in the water again.
Lanza said the health department did not test the water or sand samples before lifting the health advisory.
He did send out health department employees to look at the water before they covered up the health advisory signs.
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/06/28/federal-advice-pensacola-beach-opens-400-people-sick/
Increase In Leaning BOP By Up To 1.5 Degress Confirms BP Gulf Oil Spill BOP Is Falling Over
(note) They are saying the same thing at the Oil Drum
I originally wrote that the subsea bullseye measurements taken on June 10th indicated that the BP Gulf Oil Spill BOP was leaning 3 degrees.
The original reading of a little under 3 degrees was confirmed by the manufacturer of the subsea bullseye.
Since then there has been a great deal of speculation that the lean of the BOP could mean the that BOP is falling over.
That speculation went viral and even made mainstream media news reports.
But the speculation couldn’t be confirmed because there where no past reading to compare the lean to.
Now there is.
The latest bullseye reading taken today show that title the leaning oil well has increased by up to 1.5 degrees and appears to confirm that the BP Gulf Oil Spill BOP is indeed falling over.
Today a reader of my blog posted a clear video of an updated bullseye reading.
June 28th Subsea Bullseye Reading Shows Lean of over 4 degrees – An Increase Of Up To 1.5 Degrees Since June 10th
Ian Punnett did a stint in Atlanta on 640 AM - and not a long stint at that. Coast to Coast is some wacko shizzle.
Oh yea, but it is fun lissening to when driving all night,
help keep yoy awake
Yes it is. I look at it as being like a live version of an old sci-fi radio show. I don’t believe anything they say, but it’s fun and spooky driving at night.
Oh, BS.
Oh, BS.
I like it but I see it as entertainment and not a place to get solid science.
bfl
>> it’s always “BS” to someone here
BS
Read ‘Deep Hot Biosphere’ by Gold. Essentially, methane, emanating from the earth’s core is digested by microbes. They poop out oil.
“How much of this article is BS and how much is true?”
WHY WASTE TIME GUESSING? Ignore the whole thing, move on.
I say hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
I have read the doomsday speculations of the magnitude of what could happen if square miles of super compressed methane gas or a mixture of hydrogen sulfide was suddenly burst and came to the ocean surface and the size of such a cloud coming ashore.
And in all honesty with absolute no trust in what I hear and just going on my instincts I would get away from the area, like two states away. And the talk of nuking it sounds like the worst solution,and with the talk from Clinton its sounding like grabbing a fire extinguisher to put out a fire on a victim but its pepper spray instead.
And here is a shocker, what if Iran was able to sneak in a fission device that was pressure protected and let it sink to the nearby area and it did detonate? At the wrong place it could create an even worse problem, a potential problem that cannot be fixed, not until it drains itself.
Winner!
Who is Michael Webster? This reads like something written by a bright eight year old, it is riddled with absurd errors. It would have received an F in any high school writing class in any public school fifty years ago and should never have been put forward as the work of an adult “investigative reporter”.
As to the validity of whatever he is trying to say I make no judgment until this word salad can be deciphered.
I thought the Jones act was what AlGore was doing with the masseuse to try to get his mind off the unmasking of his huge hoax.
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