A report. Thanks. That's gonna help a ton.
I just called and emailed BP. They've already inserted a hose into the pipe. How about a different hose with a balloon at the tip? Blow air into the deflated balloon and it should fill the pipe. If they can pull it off, insert a hose, with a balloon tip, which also has a hose in the center. That way, they can take care of the pressure and recover some of the oil.
I suggest taking a copy of the health care bill and stuff it down the hole. That should be big enough to clog it up.
There is a secondary leak in a crack in the pipe near the BOP so sealing the end completely would increase flow back there
implode it.
My favorite suggestion thus far has to be the one from DU; a couple of hose clamps and split water hose.
They should have left the box over it until they found another solution
Just get used to it, and absorb the upward-cascading consequences.
Buy and store and much protein as you can.
If Red Adair were alive, he would know what to do!
Well, we often talk of turning sand into glass via nuke...
If we chain, say, 100 junk cars together in a tornado-shaped plug, each car loaded with tons of sand, plug the hole and nuke the cars from the inside to glass everything up, would that work?
A giant infundibulum with a hose attached.
does the US Navy’s reserve-fleet
have any aircraft carriers sitting around?
the 100 ton ‘top hat’ was much
too small
This is a huge mistake. This is what I do for a living fixing leaks in swimming pools while swimming underwater.
The materials will not hold and make it worse for the next time they try something. The balloon will not work because the soils will not hold the balloon.
First thing they need to do is stop the flow of oil. Otherwise no patch in the world is going to fix it.
In my business I usually let the water flow out until there is an equal pressure on the outside as on the inside. It is even easer to fix if the water is flowing into the crack while underwater. At that point just about any kind of patch will work.
In this case that cannot practically be done so the pressure needs to be equal using another method.
This also means the soils underwater at the top lair of the ocean floor will not hold any patch you place on it.
First you need to take drill or push a pipe deep down into the crack. This thing here will work fine and it will be easy to attach to any underwater sub: obviously you will need water pressure that will reach a mile down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbGUV7GQpMM
I was thinking using a large extremely heavy bell shaped tank that drops over the leak that digs itself deep into the ocean floor. In the center of the bell a tube/pipe that fits right on top of the leak and witch you have already drilled. The bell will only hold for a very short time before it starts leaking out the rim bottom of the bell.
But there will be a window of opportunity to poor down the tube/pipe I would suggest a wet mixture of thorite or it is often called water plug. Just poor in the wet mixture of thorite as fast as possible down the drilled pipe line. Thorite will dry underwater within minutes so you must work fast or you have to start all over. When finished I would just fill the bell with the thorite and leave it down there.
It is a given that Zero is overjoyed at this disaster, that it serves his anti-American agenda, yadda, yada, yadda. It is also true that they are drilling so deep because environmentalist wackos won't let them drill any closer to land.
However...
This IS a big problem, maybe very big, and it's not clear that there is a good tech solution.
It may be necessary to stop this kind of drilling until the science of it is better understood.
“Oil Companies have to reach beyond the barrel to power our” .....oh, wait a minute, that was just a shill actor speaking in a BP commercial a few years ago. You know “BP” - “Beyond Petroleum” or was it, “Beyond Blow-out Preventers”? Anyway...the whole commercial was just some tree-hugging hype thrown out there for the sleeping masses...
Take a disc of steel (picture a manhole cover, only larger) Cut a hole in the center of the disc. Weld hinges to the perimeter of the disc enabling the attachment of pipes. The hinges will allow the pipes to be extended from the disc to form a cone, with the small end at the top. Attach nylon (or other fabric) cloth to the pipes, forming a tent-like structure. (Picture a tepee.) Insert the "tepee" into a sleeve enabling it to be deployed at the end of a long flexible pipe, like a folded umbrella in a sheath. Maneuver the "tepee over the leak, slide it out of the sleeve and spread the pipe framework into the cone shape resting the large end on the sea floor. Suction the oil and gas out the top of the cone via the suction hose.
The material between the pipe frame would contain the petroleum while allowing water to pass under and through it, allowing the oil to migrate to the top where it could be suctioned.
Good ole Boys might have the answer..
Not a bad idea, but it’ll sure take a lot of hay !!!!!!!! And a lot of recovery!!!!!!!
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