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On whether there is hope for a permanent solution now that the oil has stopped leaking:
No, because thats not the gusher. That was a little bit of condensation that would have ended anyways. Theres no way to fix the gusher because theres no casing left in the hole other than doing a small diameter nuclear bomb It's the only way. With no casing left in the hole, the odds of the relief well working are zero. What the relief wells do-- if they can find the casing, they then cut a 4 inch hole--and then they have something to capture the mud with. With no casing there, it's like pouring oatmeal down a fire hydrant The casing is not there. It's scattered over the ocean floor. The government now has gamma ray images of the actual blow-out preventer, which is five stories high, weighs 325 tons and it has two sections of casing that pierced through five stories of metal."